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Brody’s Cause, Destin Top Tampa Bay Derby
With $350,000 on the line and 50 points toward entry to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) to the winner, a field of 10 was drawn for the March 12 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby (gr. II). The intrigue in the 1 1/16-mile race, however, revolves around a pair of sons of Giant’s Causeway inBrody’s Cause and Destin.
Both colts appear in Steve Haskin’s Derby Dozen, and both are looking to move forward in the Tampa Bay Downs‘ signature race that has a posttime of approximately 5:24 p.m. EST as the 11th race on a stakes-laden program
DERBY DOZEN: March 8, 2016 Presented by Shadwell Farm
Albaugh Family Stable’s Brody’s Cause is the more accomplished of the two on the track, having won last year’s Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (gr. I) and finishing third behind champion Nyquist and Swipe in the Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) at Keeneland. However, the Dale Romans-trained runner will be making his first start in 19 weeks.
Twin Creeks Racing Stables’ Destin, on the other hand, was fourth in the Jan. 16 Lecomte Stakes (gr. III) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slotsand was a 2 1/4-length winner of Tampa Bay’s Sam F. Davis Stakes (gr. III) Feb. 13 at the trip. Trainer Todd Pletcher has won the race three times and twice in the past three years.
Brody’s Cause, out of Sweet Breanna, by Sahm, was bred in Kentucky by Gabriel Duignan, William Arvin Jr., and Petaluma Bloodstock. The $350,000 Keeneland September yearling will carry highweight of 122 pounds in the Tampa Bay Derby and will be ridden by Corey Lanerie. A string of impressive works at Gulfstream Park this winter were capped by a local half-mile move in :48 2/5 March 6.
Destin, a $400,000 Keeneland September yearling, was bred by James. C. Weigel and Taylor Made Stallions. Despite the grade III under his belt, he’ll tote only 116 pounds with Javier Castellano up. A full brother to grade I winner (and Preakness Stakes, gr. I, placed) Creative Cause , Destin is out of the grade I-winning Dream of Summer.
The other eight runners certainly shouldn’t be left off the table in a race that has seen its share of long-priced winners over the years—43-1 winner Watch Me Go (2011) comes to mind.
The wild card is Team Valor International, Gary Barber, and Tucci Stables’ Riker who is also making his first start since the Oct. 31 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. A four-time winner over Woodbine‘s Polytrack last year, Riker was sixth in the Juvenile at Keeneland after leading early. Florent Geroux gets the first-time call from Riker’s new trainer Mark Casse. Casse won this race in 2012 with Prospective. The Kentucky-bred Riker is by Include —Desviacion, by Unreal Zeal, and has fired two bullets from his last three works at Palm Meadows Training Center.
Team Valor, Barber Buy Into Grey Winner Riker
Rafting and Morning Fire, the two-three finishers in the Sam F. Davis, respectively, return in the Tampa Bay Derby. Rafting is a son of two-time leading sire Tapit while Morning Fire makes his all-important third start off a layoff with a bullet move (1:01) over the track under his belt.
Outwork is unbeaten and untested in two starts (10 months apart) and is a son of 2015 leading juvenile and first-crop sire Uncle Mo .
Economic Model stretches out after running second to Awesome Banner in the seven-furlong Swale Stakes (gr. II) Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park. Awesome Banner wheels back quickly off his fifth-place finish behind Mohaymen in the Feb. 27 Xpressbet.com Fountain of Youth Stakes (gr. II).
Calumet Farm homebred Star Hill, a recent maiden winner by Elusive Quality , figures to improve with added distance while Charles Fipke’s Tale of S’avall makes his first start since tiring in last October’s Champagne Stakes (gr. I).
Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby (gr. II)
Tampa Bay Downs, Saturday, March 12, 2016, Race 11
- 1 1/16m, Dirt, $350,000, 3 yo, 5:24 PM (local)
| PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | M/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Morning Fire (PA) | Daniel Centeno | 116 | Keith Nations | 15/1 |
| 2 | 2Rafting (KY) | Edgar S. Prado | 116 | H. Graham Motion | 6/1 |
| 3 | 3Outwork (KY) | John R. Velazquez | 116 | Todd A. Pletcher | 12/1 |
| 4 | 4Economic Model (KY) | Irad Ortiz, Jr. | 116 | Chad C. Brown | 5/1 |
| 5 | 5Star Hill (KY) | Julien R. Leparoux | 116 | George R. Arnold, II | 15/1 |
| 6 | 6Riker (KY) | Florent Geroux | 120 | Mark E. Casse | 8/1 |
| 7 | 7Destin (KY) | Javier Castellano | 120 | Todd A. Pletcher | 9/2 |
| 8 | 8Brody’s Cause (KY) | Corey J. Lanerie | 122 | Dale L. Romans | 5/2 |
| 9 | 9Tale of S’avall (KY) | Joe Bravo | 116 | Barclay Tagg | 12/1 |
| 10 | 10Awesome Banner (FL) | Antonio A. Gallardo | 120 | Stanley I. Gold | 8/1 |
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Old Guard (noseband, centre): was flat in a workout on Saturday
PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
Cheltenham Festival: Nicholls downbeat after ‘dire’ work from Guard
PAUL NICHOLLS offered a downbeat assessment of Old Guard‘s Stan James Champion Hurdle challenge on Saturday after a disappointing workout.
The champion trainer said the latest exercise by the Greatwood and International Hurdle winner, who is usually a solid workhorse, had been “absolutely dire.”
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“We worked all the Cheltenham horses this morning, Old Guard went to Kempton last week and worked well and has schooled well, but he worked absolutely dire this morning,” he said.
“God knows why. He was always a good workhorse. The girl who rode him was almost crying at the end of it. For whatever reason he was completely flat.
“We got him home he was fine, he ate up, his temperature was fine. That was the first time he hasn’t worked very well.”
Nicholls, who was speaking at a post racing Cheltenham Festival preview event at Sandown, added: “Hopefully he will be allright tomorrow and it will just be one of those things. It didn’t appear anything was wrong but he did work dire. Hopefully tomorrow and Monday he is in better shape than he was today.”
Ground latest
Conditions at Cheltenham are expected to dry out over the next couple of days with the going for the first day likely to be “a mixture of soft and good to soft” according to clerk of the course Simon Claisse.
He said on Saturday: “We’ve had a dry 24 hours here and the temperature has reached 12 degrees today. That looks like the warmest it will be between now and next Friday. The forecast is dry from now and all courses are soft.
“We expect there to be good to soft places by tea time tomorrow and the ground is likely to be a mixture of soft and good to soft ground for the first day.
