“It wasn’t a real work, just a blowout,” Biancone said. “Very good. Perfect.
The War Front colt, a $570,000 purchase at the Barretts March Sale, has
“We’re trying to bring him along softly to a certain level,” Biancone
The trainer added that he has passed all his early tests with flying colors,
“We’re going to leave everything up to this guy,” concluded Biancone,
The Kentucky-bred colt will bring together multiple international
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The Huis, who live in Arcadia, California, are the majority owners with 74
percent of the colt. Kin Hui, the managing partner, is a real estate developer
as CEO and president of Capital Corporation, owns eight Thoroughbreds and said
this is his best since entering ownership 10 years ago.
“I came to the United States in 1986, attended Woodbury University in Burbank
and decided to stay after graduation,” Hui said.
Hui made the decision to enter the colt in the Juvenile on dirt, rather than
the Juvenile Turf.
“We started him on turf because we thought he would run long, but we always
thought he was a dirt horse,” explained Hui. “After he won the Oak Tree Juvenile
Turf at Del Mar, it was only three weeks until the FrontRunner Stakes on the
dirt here and we decided to give him another week for the Zuma Beach on the
turf. The spacing was better.
“But we like dirt,” Hui added. “We live in America.”
Biancone is winless with 21 Breeders’ Cup starters but finished second with
two early stars: All Along in the inaugural 1984 Turf and Strawberry Road in the
1985 Turf.
In other Juvenile news, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas is still troubled
by post position 14 for Strong Mandate. But he is pleased to have top rider Joel
Rosario in the irons.
“Rosario (who raced in Southern California before heading east) knows the
racetrack and I know he’ll let the horse run, which is what he (the colt) does
really well,” Lukas said.
Trainer Peter Eurton was pleased as he watched Dance With Fate gallop 1 1/4
miles on the main track with exercise rider Joe Duran Thursday.
“So far, so good, a nice long hold,” Eurton said.
The runner-up in the Del Mar Futurity and FrontRunner Stakes is co-owned by
Sharon Alesia, Joe Ciaglia and Mike Mellen’s Bran Jam Stable. Dawn Mellen,
daughter of the Bran Jam owner and a Toluca Lake resident, looked on from under
a Dance With Fate baseball cap.
“He’s the ‘it’ horse; he’s got it,” she said. “He’s training well. This is
very exciting.”
Trainer Todd Pletcher has two chances in the Juvenile. While Havana has
proven himself as an outstanding dirt horse with his debut victory and Champagne
Stakes triumph, We Miss Artie has run on dirt, turf and synthetic surfaces.
“We’ve tried all three surfaces with We Miss Artie, and he’s kind of the rare
horse that seems to be good on all of them,” Pletcher said. “We just felt in
light of the way he’s trained on the dirt, that we’d give the Juvenile a try.”
Pletcher said there isn’t a temptation to try Juvenile Turf runner Bashart on
dirt with an eye toward the 2014 Triple Crown. The son of War Front finished
second over Keeneland’s Polytrack in the off-the-turf Bourbon in his most recent
start. Previously, he finished third in his debut over the Belmont turf before
capturing a maiden race and the With Anticipation Stakes over the Saratoga grass
course.
“No, we kind of figured out that he was a turf horse from the beginning,
pedigree-wise,” Pletcher said. “When we were able to breeze him on the turf, we
saw he liked it. We’re not looking to change anything.”
“He hasn’t done anything wrong, this horse. He’s been very impressive,”
Brown worked for Frankel for five years and says has a sentimental connection
“Absolutely. He was my mentor,” Brown said. “To win a Breeders’ Cup race at
Trainer Kathleen O’Connell spoke of Scandalous Act, who lines up in
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Scandalous Act, a daughter of Act of Duty, has won four of her five starts at
Calder by big margins, punctuated by a seventh-place finish in the JJ’s Dream
Stakes in her second appearance in June.
“She got off to a terrible start in that race,” O’Connell said Thursday
morning. “It was a rude awakening for a young filly to eat that much dirt in
only the second start of her career. She’s been great since then and putting
blinkers on for her third start I think has helped her in her races since then,
and really appreciated stretching out to two turns in her last start.”
Scandalous Act romped home the easiest winner by 5 3/4 lengths in the My Dear
Girl Division of the Florida Stallion Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Calder on
October 12 as the 1-2 favorite.
“I know this will be a lot stronger field with some really nice fillies, but
she’s trained well the last couple of days after being a little down after the
long day traveling Sunday.”
The Doug O’Neill-trained Concave is playing catch-up, being forced to miss a
prep in the Chandelier Stakes here September 28. She had finished an encouraging
third in the Del Mar Debutante August 31 following victories in her first two
starts.
“She came out of the Del Mar race a little under the weather, we gave her
some time and she came back with two nice breezes,” O’Neill explained. “She has
trained like a horse where added distance should be no problem. The two turns
hits her right between the eyes.”
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