Iowa Derby Winner Ain’t Life Grand came Racecourse Saratogawhere he will target US$1.25 million shares of Runhappy Travers (G1).
Iowa’s half-brother Not this time begins a seven-time adventure at the Iowa Stallion Stakes July 23 in Prairie grasslands go one mile and 70 yards. He won the 1/2-mile 1/16-mile Iowa Derby with a strong endgame for coach Kelly Von Hemel, who believes the August 27 Travers’ 1/4 mile is the right one. on the alley of the pony.
“We liked our pony and we wanted to try our hand at Travers,” Von Hemel said on August 8. “I always thought he was a mile and a quarter, and his numbers. He came back really strong. I hate to call anything easy, but we know that when he walks into the Iowa Stallion Stakes, he won’t have to run very hard and he still has five weeks left until the trade. “
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Ain’t Life Grand will represent the first graded bet starter for owner Ray Shattuck, who spawns and races under the RPM Thoroughbreds banner. The majority of RPM horses run in Iowa, where Shattuck and his wife Peggy are members of the Prairie Meadows Hall of Fame.
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Upon stepping onto Travers, the Ain’t Life Grand is faced with a heavy list of giants consisting of probabilities. The epicenter , Rich Strike , Charge it , Artorius and Cyberknife . Zandon and Early voting, with Skippylongstocking maybe.
“We are very excited,” Shattuck said. “We’ve always known this horse wants to go further. We don’t necessarily want to go up against the horses we’ll be going up against in Travers. We know we’re up against the guys right now. big and it’s going to be much tougher We just like the spacing, that’s the main thing we’re looking at We’ve got a good horse Is it a grade 1 caliber I guess we’ll find understand. “
Ain’t Life Grand is out Medaglia d’Oro mare Cat d’Oro, daughter of Edward P. Evans’ Tale of the Cat mare Cat Moves. While the Cat d’Oro was not ranked, the Cat Moves won the 2009 Prioress Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park for coach Tony Dutrow, and finished third in the Test Round (G1) at Saratoga in her next warm-up.
“We know there’s enough pedigree out there that could support this, so we’re going to try it,” Shattuck said. “Win or lose, we don’t have any other races coming up at the moment that we want to be in.”
The Travers will mark the second start outside of Iowa for Ain’t Life Grand, who comes with five wins and two-thirds from eight starts, with earnings of $399,833. Seven of those started at Prairie Meadows, where he won the Richard Radke Memorial Stakes and the Iowa Cradle Stakes during his juvenile campaign. His lone trip on the road to Wednesday results during his 3-year-old debut on the April 30 Bachelor Staking show at Oaklawn Park.
“This is the best horse I’ve ever owned – that’s what we think anyway. So we’ll find out,” Shattuck said.
