Royally-bred Crazy Party profiled in NY Watch

Last updated: 7/30/11 2:36 PM

Crazy Party is inbred 3 x 3 to Secretariat and 4 x 4 to Buckpasser
(NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography)

Last year’s two-year-old turf races at Saratoga Race Course were
incredibly productive, with graded stakes winners Winter Memories (El
Prado [Ire]), More Than Real (More Than Ready), J. B.’s Thunder (Thunder
Gulch), Silver Medallion (Badge of Silver) and Excited (Giant’s
Causeway) all having made winning debuts on the grass at the Spa. CRAZY
PARTY (A.P. Indy), who dashed clear to victory Thursday at Saratoga,
will now attempt to follow in their footsteps.

Always prominent in the 5TH race, Crazy Party raced behind cover in
third through fractions of :23 4/5, :48 4/5 and 1:13 3/5, angled outside
at the top of the stretch, and burst past the front runners to register
a two-length victory over Regalo Mia (Sligo Bay [Ire]). For her
successful debut, Crazy Party joins the New York Watch, which profiles
promising maiden winners at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and
Saratoga. Click

here to visit her page.

Crazy Party, who completed 1 1/16 miles on the firm turf in 1:43, ran
the final sixteenth of a mile in a quick 5.58 seconds and returned $7.90
as the 5-2 second choice.

Owned and bred by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, Crazy Party is by Belmont S.
(G1)-winning Horse of the Year and renowned sire A.P. Indy and out of the
winning Wakigoer (Miswaki),
making her a half-sister to Grade or Group 3 turf stakes winners Quiet Royal
(Royal Academy), Acago (Royal Academy) and Sandwaki (Dixieland Band). Wakigoer
herself is a half-sister to Go Deputy (Deputy Minister), who won the Sword
Dancer (G1) on the turf at Saratoga, and Dare and Go (Alydar), who upset Cigar
in the Pacific Classic (G1) on the dirt and placed in three Grade 1 turf events.

After Crazy Party turned in a :49 1/5 four-furlong breeze around dogs on the
turf at Saratoga on June 20, trainer Todd Pletcher knew the filly, like her
siblings, would likely do her best running on the grass.

“We were hoping being by A.P. Indy that she’d do well on the dirt, but her
works were OK on the dirt,” Pletcher said. “We gave her a spin on the turf and
she seemed to move up.”

Pletcher added that the $75,000 P.G. Johnson at 1 1/16 miles on the turf on
August 31 would be a logical next start for Crazy Party.