Art collection group, looking for the second Alydar

By Bruce Lunsford Art collector join three other classified bet winners in the $135,000 Alydar Stakes, a 1 1/8 mile limited test for older horses, horses that have not won a bet non-state-bred bets in 2022, August 4 at Racecourse Saratoga.

The Art Collector’s first prize winner, a 5-year-old, boasts an 8-1-0 record from 17 starts and a lifetime income of $1,655,305 as the only millionaire in the field. this. Originally coached by Thomas Drury Jr., the Art Collector made his debut for Hall of Fame coach Bill Mott with a live score at Alydar last year, beating the graded stake winners. . Night activities and Math Wizard . Son of the Bay Bernardini won 1 1/2 lengths on the road to a solid 4-year-old season, then captured the Charles Town Classic Stakes (G2) and Woodward Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park on the way to finishing sixth in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) in November at Del Mar.

Mott said Art Collector could follow a similar path in its current campaign.

“Those are the races we’re looking at, but we have to get through the first leg, first,” Mott said.

Art Collector returned from a hiatus after finishing in 12th place next at the Saudi Arabia Cup (G1) in February, coming in 12th.

“He got close to the lead and then everyone in there, some good horses, backed out of the race,” Mott said. “It’s a different kind of rail, a completely different kind of surface. It’s safe, but it can be a bit heavy, sticky or laborious which might be the best way to put it.”

Luis Saez, last year’s top rider at Saratoga, will retain the mount from post 5.

FTGGG Racing’s Masqueparade will start at the Spa for the first time since the end of far friday to Necessary quality in last year’s Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1) for AI trainer Stall Jr., who caught Alydar 2019 with the last millionaire to win level 1 Tom’s d’Etat.

The son of Start up enjoyed a successful three-year season, which included a third-place finish in the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) in Saratoga. He also won the Ohio Derby (G3) at Thistledownin defeating his ambitious comrade Alydar King Fury .

The stall-trained Masqueparade was second in his 2022 debut, a claimant claiming the option of a two-pass allowance for those who failed to win four races on May 13 at Churchill Downs. He won for the same condition at the next Churchill on June 23.

Joel Rosario, who drove Tom’s d’Etat in Alydar 2019, will ride the Masqueparade from lesson 6.

Coach Kenny McPeek will run the Fern Circle Stables and Triple Chimney Farm King Fury , who is looking for his first win since a 13-long race in the Bourbon Trail Stakes at Churchill last year. 4 year old kid Curlin chestnut, class 1 winner Taris hasn’t raced since a distant eighth-place finish in the Kentucky Cup Classic on April 2 on synthetic Tapeta surfaces at Lawn Parkfrom there he exited with a wounded shoulder.

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