Traveling to another continent actually went pretty well for the aptly named 3-year-old Go global .
While racing as a 2-year-old in Europe, the daughter of Mehmas finished fourth, 12th and 13th in her first three starts. When she was then transferred to a synthetic surface to finish her 2-year-old season, she won a $13,000 race at Dundalk Racecourse in Ireland known as Handicap’s Join us on Instagram.
After that humble beginning in Europe, a number of new and foreign horizons have made for an amazing transformation.
Bought by American connections and sent to coach Phil D’Amato, the Irishman’s global reach became an international success story when Going Global became a 3-year-old female athlete top American.
Raised by N. Hartery, she earned her US debut on February 14 and continued to grow. Now with a list of six wins in seven US starts, Going Global will wrap up her 3-year campaign on December 26th by running in the $300,000 American Oaks (G1T) in Santa Anita . Park and chase her second 1st grade win.
As one of three primary stakes on the opening day of The Great Race Place’s winter meeting, American Oaks attracted a large field of 11 3-year-old canolas with Going Global clearly prominent.
The winner of her first four starts in the US for CYBT’s own team, Michael Dubb, Saul Gevertz, Michael Nentwig and Ray Pagano, she then watched her winning streak break. with second place favorites 2-5 in the July 24 San Clemente Stakes (G2T).
She has since recovered with wins in Del Mar Oaks (G1T) and Goldikova Stakes presented by PNC (G2T) to improve her career record to seven wins in 11 starting with earnings. 648,792 dollars.
While Sunday’s 1 1/4 mile bet will mark her first attempt to cross 1 1/8 mile, her record of 3 to 3 in 9 dribbles and running style late signaled her chance at the new 1 1/4 mile distance.
Closing remarks of California Cup Oaks shooting at Santa Anita Park
The Endurance Award in the Field Goes to a Hybrid from Harris Farms Close comment , who faced Going Global three times and finished second behind her each time.
Coach Carla Gaines said: “She is our little blue-collar girl.
Daughter of Vronsky faced Going Global in China Doll Stakes, Providencia Stakes (G3T), and Del Mar Oaks and lost a total of two lengths in those three attempts with an asterisk attached to two of them. Get out Abnormal heat Orange Cove mares, the California cross lacked room to return home to Oaks and stumbled at the start of Providencia.
“We had some unlucky trips to be beaten by Going Global, who I believe is one of the best, if not the best, goofy 3-year-old on the pitch. But we’re going to give it another whirlwind,” Gaines said. “It was one thing or another when we faced her.”
She’s also had a rough ride in her final start as she travels east for the October 16 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup presented by Dixiana (G1T). in Keeneland as she finished ninth and last and forced a six-wide rally while finishing sixth on the kind of productive turf that horses rarely encounter in California.
“She didn’t go to the super soft land of Kentucky and had a bad post (9) and blah, blah, blah,” said Gaines, who believes in her and she’s excited about running her and expect it. “
Fluffy Socks (second from left) dominate the Sands Point Stakes at Belmont Park
The frequent customer award goes to Smooth socks , who is based in New York with coach Chad Brown but will start her third in a classified holding in California. Bred by owner Sol Kumin from a New York-based stallion with amazing success Sleep , she finished third in the Del Mar Oaks and won last year’s Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3T) in the two westward trips that eventually brought her to Del Mar.
Racing under the pennant of Kumin’s Head of Plains Partners, the Kentucky hybrid is winning the Sands Point Stakes (G2T) at Belmont Park. She won four out of 10 starts with three seconds and a third with $430,880 earnings.
The field also includes an interesting duo from trainer Michael McCarthy in Katsumi Yoshida’s The most beautiful and Cheyenne Stable’s Fees have been reduced .
After starting his career in Europe, Nicest finished fourth at the QE Cup II on his US debut. Daughter of American pharoah then finished third in the Red Carpet Handicap (G3T) at Del Mar. Fees have been reduced, a Lemon Drop Kid filly, will run the first graded stake percentage after posting two seconds and a third of the three allowance races on her most recent start.
Item: American Oak (G1T)
Santa Anita . Park, Sunday, December 26, 2021, Race 11
- Level I
- 1 1/4
- Grass pitch downhill
- 300,000 dollars
- 3 yo Fillies
- 4:00pm (local)
