Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier, and Derrick Smith’s As time goes by starting the 2022 season the same way she started 2021 — with a win. The 5-year-old was simply in a class of her own in $200,000 Canadian Dollars Stakes (G3) January 1 at Santa Anita . Park, dominated the 5-horse field in a dazzling display.
Promise Park Avenue , get back points claim persuasive allowance option at Los Alamitos . Racecourse, was shot forward as racer Flavien Prat positioned As Time Goes By right in her flank. Park Avenue trailed her lead through the opening quarter: 23.46 and :47 half a mile before Time passed poking its head ahead into the turn home. From there, it was all over, when Park Avenue failed to go with the older mare, the one who continued to dump her down the ramp, gliding under the rope was the easiest winner.
“I was in the race and (As Time Goes By) moved really well and ran really well in the lane,” said Prat, who won six races Saturday at Santa Anita. around, and when it came time to make her run, she was there for me. “
As Time Goes By’s official winning score is 13 1/2 lengths. Park Avenue and running late Moonlight d’Oro completed the trilogy.
Coach Bob Baffert said: ‘This fatness just gets better with age. “I’m really excited. She’s always been my favorite. She has the American Pharoah temperament. They seem to be late bloomers and she just keeps getting better. I’m expecting big things. She’s going to stay here, and I think the Beholder Mile Stakes (G1) program (March 5) will be the next one for her.”
A 3-5 time favorite, As Time Goes By ($3.20) ran 1/16 of a mile on the fast main track in 1:44.31. Collecting her fourth-place bet in La Canada, she improved her overall record to 6-3-1 from 13 starts with $655,600 in earnings.
Tabor said in an internal TV interview after the race. “I was hoping she would win, which she did right. Great fun. Very easy to win.”
Officially bred, As Time Goes by is the daughter of a Triple Crown winner American pharoah out of many mare victory level 1 Take Charge Lady (Dehere ). She became an excellent broodmare, spawning 3-year-old champion and hero Travers Stakes (G1) Fees will be charged and level 1 winner Take Charge Indy . Daughter of She Charming (Gold Search ) generates many level 1 winners Omaha . Beach , as well as the chubby 2-year-old champion Let’s charge Brandi , banged by recent winner Jerome Stakes Courvoisier .
Videotapes: La Canada S. (G3)
Luck Swoops in Robert J. Frankel
A race against La Canada, a hybrid of the LNJ Foxwoods Lucky running as if she didn’t need her luck in winning $101,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes (G3T).
Bodhicitta . The result, in which the runner-up wins the level 1 Unusual Mucho Winning in a favorable position, coach Richard Baltas finished 1-2.
“She was a very special person,” Baltas said of Luck.
Pacesetting Moraz , who set the divisions: 24.38, :49.26 and 1:12.50, weakened to fourth place.
Prat rides Luck to victory. His mount completed the 1/8 mile on good grass in 1:48.26.
“She had some speed to run and she gave me a good kick when it was time to move,” Prat said. “I’ve saved quite a bit of land all over the road and around the quarter column, I think I have a lot of horses and just want to run well, she responds well.”
Raised in Kentucky, Luck ($3.80) is a 5-year-old mare by The joy of kittens out of group-3-win Caerleon mare Gold ring , a half-sister from the great’s father Goldikova . Lucky to be the winner of the fourth stake of the smash and the winner of her third group/classification. Her seven ponies have achieved black skin and she also has an underrated 2-year-old pony named Everlasting (Oscar Performance ).
Videotapes: Robert J. Frankel S. (G3T)
