Training Track Graduate News

AWARD WANTED (Macho Uno) won the Geisha Stake at Laurel and was placed in the Nellie Morse also at Laurel.  She was started in Aiken by Marcus & Crystal Ryan (Mason Springs). She is owned by No Guts No Glory Farm and Erica Upton and trained by  John J. Robb.

PRIVATE CREED (Jimmy Creed) was a multiple stakes winner at 2 including a 3rd in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint. He got his 3 year old campaign off to a good start with a stakes placing in the Bob Bork Texas Turf Mile Stakes. He is trained by Steve Asmussen for Mike McCarty.

OPUS FORTY TWO ( Mendelssohn) started by LEGACY broke her maiden last month at Tampa and stepped directly into stakes company and won her 2nd in a row. She chased the pace, cleared and held off a closer to win the Gasparilla Stakes at Tampa Bay going 7 furlongs on the dirt. She is trained for Mark B. Grier by  Arnaud Delacour.

Courtesy of the TDN
KRIS KRINGLE S., $75,000, Parx Racing, 1-4, 4yo/up, 1m 70y, 1:45.56, sy.
1–RIDIN WITH BIDEN, 128, g, 5, Constitution–Allemande, by Medaglia d’Oro. ($80,000 Ylg ’19 KEESEP; $85,000 2yo ’20 EASMAY). Consigned by CARY FROMMER
O-Cash is King LLC & LC Racing LLC; B-William Harrigan & Mike Pietrangelo (KY); T-Robert E. Reid, Jr.; J-Paco Lopez. $43,800.
Lifetime Record: GSW, 20-7-5-1, $475,000.

Veteran Ridin With Biden held on for a last-gasp victory over Amatteroftime to earn his second straight win. The dark bay gelding sat just off the early pace while racing four wide around the first turn and moved up to be widest of five in a line across the track challenging for the lead down the backstretch. He stuck his head in front at the top of the stretch and was pulling away down the lane despite drifting in and out, but Amatteroftime was closing fast and true and just failed to catch the gelding on the line. Riding With Biden, who won the 1 1/2-mile GIII Greenwood Cup over this track in September, was coming off a 1 1/4-length victory in the Turkey Trot S. over this same course and distance Nov. 23.

Connections Staying ‘Grounded’ With Undefeated Juvenile Colt Post Time

Started in Aiken by Cary Frommer
Courtesy of the TDN
MARYLAND JUVENILE S., $100,000, Laurel, 12-3, (C), 2yo, 7f,
1:23.98, my.
1–POST TIME, 123, c, 2, by Frosted
($85,000 Ylg ’21 EASOCT). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.
O-Hillwood Stable LLC
B-Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Bowman, Dr. Brooke Bowman & Milton P Higgins III (MD)
T-Brittany T. Russell
J-Eric Camacho.
Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $133,140.
Post Time remained unbeaten in this third lifetime victory, and the first at the stakes level here. A two length winner on unveiling Oct. 7 against a local maiden field which credited next-out 11-length winner Prince of Jericho (Munnings) in its tally, and a dominant 6 3/4-length victor lastout Oct. 27 against optional claimers at the venue, he settled way off the early pace after the jump as Johnyz From Albany put up all the running through :22.76 and :45.81 splits. Given his cue leaving the far bend and rolling under a full head of steam, Post Time swallowed up rivals while four wide and shifted out in the lane as he cruised by the long-time leader. Eric Camacho remained motionless as the grey coasted in.

The second multiple winner from three to race, and the first to gain black-type for his young dam, Post Time has a weanling half-sister by McKinzie. This is the family of Maryland stalwart,
MSW Undercover (Allen’s Prospect) as well as GSP Bye Bye J (Uncaptured). MGISW Rose=s Cantina(Naskra), her full-sister GISW Fancy Naskra; GISW Montreal Red (D=Accord) and his fullsister English MSW Princess Accord all hail from the fourth dam, who claims a busy black-type branch beneath her.

POST TIME (Frommer) STAKES WINNER at Laurel Park – $100,000 Maryland Juvenile
MILTON THE MONSTER (Frommer) at Aqueduct in allowance company
OPUS FORTY TWO (Legacy) at Tampa Bay Downs MSW
A WESTERN YARN (Legacy) at Tampa Bay Downs MSW

SW COCONUT CAKE (Bandbox), winner of the Maryland Million Ladies Stakes at Laurel Park last month, added to her resume running 3rd in the Forever Together Stakes at Aqueduct. She has upped her earnings to $293,063. COCONUT CAKE is owned by her trainer Timothy L. Keefe and by  N R S Stable and James Chambers. She was conditioned in Aiken by Cary Frommer.

PRIVATE CREED (Jimmy Creed) was started and then sold by Aiken’s Mason Spring. Trained by Steve Asmussen, he ran an exciting 3rd in the  BREEDERS’ CUP JUVENILE TURF SPRINT-GI, $920,000,
at Keeneland.