Coach Chad Brown in the men’s 3rd place is quite strong at the moment with the winner of Preakness Stakes (G1) Vote early and students who won first prize Zandon and Jack Christopher .
Suddenly, his stock in the 3-year-old division isn’t bad.
While Secret Vow and Nest standing on top of the sophomore distaff runner, Klaravich Stables’ Gerrymander took a big step in the division by taking the position for the long haul and delivered a decisive win for Brown with $232,500 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) for 3-year-olds on June 25 at the time Belmont Park.
Three-point length more Shahama comes after a messy 2022 debut in which ‘s daughter Into Mischief confused on a dry track during the Eight Belles Stakes presented by TwinSpires (G2) on May 6 at Churchill Downs.
“It’s a wet track, she’s in, she’s not breaking well. It’s a greasy track that she hates and she doesn’t run. I drew a line through it,” Brown said of Eight. Belles. “She’s had excellent training leading up to (Mother Goose.) We know she loves Belmont and has always trained well here. We secretly believe she’ll show up today.”
In giving Brown her second Mother Goose win in the last three editions (it wasn’t held in 2020) and marking her first win, Gerrymander also interjected into the conversation about being identified division of Alabama Stakes (G1, August 20 at Racecourse Saratoga).
Bred by Town & Country Horse Ranch and Kingfish Farm in Kentucky in addition to Spin hard mare Ruby Lips, Gerrymander certainly has the pedigree to handle the one-mile distance and a quarter of Alabama since she’s a half-sister with Lone Rock 2nd place winner in the 1st 5/8 mile marathon and multiple 1/2 mile winner.
“As one half of Lone Rock, a cool, consistent (gelding) person running all day on dirt, you would think there are some similarities (between them) and a mile and a half is not out of the question,” Brown said. ask. . “We want to go to Alabama with her.”
With just four starts, Mother Goose’s one-turn, 1/16-mile race is not a complicated race from a tactical standpoint. However, a key factor in the result came when driver Joel Rosario on Gerrymander, after taking the lead, to allow a favorite 1-2 Map of JuJu and then second pick 5-2 Shahama to get past them.
As it happened, the opening quarter mile a:24.09 turned into a:46.90 half mile with Gerrymander sitting comfortably in third place behind that spirited quarter: 22.81 quarter Monday.
“When (Gerrymander) explodes in the front, I like it because she trains that way,” Brown said. “When (Joel) held her back and he let Juju’s Map pass him in the back, I questioned that. But when I saw the fractions, they went from a:24 to a:24. a:46 with the inside being: 22 , I think Joel has a better clock than me because that’s the right thing to do.”
Rosario then swings Gerrymander apart from the two leads on the turn and takes the lead at the beginning of the stretch, flying over the wire in 1:43.74 and paying $15 to win.
“Everything went well,” Rosario said. “It’s well established.”
Purchased by Founders Hall Farm for $375,000 from a Sales Agent shipment by Taylor Made in 2020 Keeneland Sale, Gerrymander won her third of six startups and lifted her earnings to $378,000.
She is the fourth of Ruby Lips’ seven ponies and her second 2nd grade winner. The mare also has a desire Tapit dirty and a Structure The pony was born earlier this year.
KHK Racing’s Shahama, a Munnings coached by Todd Pletcher, second by 4 3/4 length on the Juju Map of the Albaugh Family, a daughter of Map of Liam started for the second time since runner-up in the NetJets Breeders’ Juvenile Cup (G1) competition for coach Brad Cox.
The win gave Brown a two-bet sweep on Saturday’s card as he took $93,000 in Wild Applause stakes on the pitch with Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, Louis Lazzinnaro and Michael Caruso’s Famous Victor .
As the New York Racing Association once again struggled to fill its stake, Brown sent out four of the eight combined starters in Mother Goose and Wild Applause.
“If I could run in New York, I would,” Brown said. “We are based here and any time I can help them fill out (a card) well… I always want to run here if we can.”
Video: Mother Goose S. (G2)
