The late dad More Than Ready is still delivering magical moments for WinStar Farm and trainer Todd Pletcher.
Emmanuel campaigned by WinStar Farm and Siena Farm, ranked last of the early six under Irad Ortiz Jr. in $200,000 Poker Stakes (G3T) June 10 on Widener Turf at Belmont Park | BloodHorse.com track record”>Belmont Park before overtaking the opponents to win first Filo Di Arianna in the one-mile test for older horses.
Like many generations of More Than Ready, Emmanuel has raced well on many surfaces but has been steady on grass this season. Saturday marked his third win of the season on grass.
Coach Pletcher tweaked More Than Ready during his racing career, winning four graded bets from 1999-2000, including the 2000 King’s Bishop Stakes (G1) at Racecourse Saratoga. Following his racing career, More Than Ready will become the foundation stallion for WinStar, where he will breed more than 215 black type winners.
WinStar President, CEO and race manager, Elliott Walden, thinks the race is the best attempt to date for Emmanuel, who overtook the original Filo Di Arianna lead with love. prefer Chez Pierre third, half the distance behind second place.
“The More Than Readys are still doing it,” notes Walden. “It was a really good race. We have a lot of respect for the No. 1, Chez Pierre, but (Emmanuel) showed up today. The tactics were a little different today; Irad wanted to give him a goal and It went very well.”
“It’s amazing, More Than Ready has been with our family for a long time. It’s amazing,” Pletcher said. “(Emmanuel) has done a little bit of everything. He’s pretty good at a lot of distances, very flexible. He can pick up the pace like he did at Pennine Ridge (Stakes, G2T) last year or he he can come out of that as he did today.”
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William “Doug” Cowans is hoping to make a good claim when he wins the Next from the six-stage $62,500 option claim race at Keeneland in April 2022 to owner Michael Foster.
Fourteen months later, it became clear that he had received a worthy request and more. Promising instant, winning title races, Next took its game to the next level as a dirt road marathon runner.
On Saturday at Belmont Park, he won the third long-distance bet race in four attempts at 1 1/2 miles or so to win $250,000 Brooklyn Stakes (G2) in a style wiring under the control of racer Luan Machado. 5 year old son of Not this time ran 1 1/2 miles n 2:31.01 after the late fractions :50.02, 1:16.12 and 1:41.62.
Next proves impossible to catch in Brooklyn Stakes
He scored 2 1/4 lengths on correction with red run ranked third and given priority certificate Wednesday. The winner returned $8.70 on a $2 bet.
“Everything went as we planned today,” said Cowans. “Take the lead, slow down as much as you can, try to keep some distance ahead of you all the way, and it all worked out as we wanted.”
Bred by Silverton Farm apart great again mare Bahia Beach , Next won the seventh time in 17 races. An upcoming start in 1 3/4 mile Birdstone Stakes at Racecourse Saratoga Cowans said July 27 could be next for Next.
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