Favourite Determine the goal capped a four-win day for coach Kenny McPeek, including two bets with her overwhelming win in the $150,000 End of the Year Bet at Oaklawn Park like the favorite score 2-1. Several races before that, McPeek won $150,000 Renaissance Stakes with icy departure, and he also won two special girlhood weight classes on the 10-race card specifically for junior races.
Identify Intent eager to run early as she tracks unified through the fractions :23.68 and :47.86 in the first half mile from fourth place while going strong against equestrian David Cabrera. The winner moved outside and four steps wide into the stretch before taking the lead for an easy 5 1/4 length in a final time of 1:39.23 for a mile on fast track. Unity ran to second, while Responsible Briana increased from last place to third place.
“She should just improve on this and it doesn’t look like it’s taxing her too much,” McPeek said. fillings,” referring to $200,000 Martha Washington Stakes on January 28 in Oaklawn.
Determination of purpose, a 2 year old child cross traffic dirty, won for the second time in four career starts and has now earned $157,088 for Magdalena Racing owners Colette Marie Vanmatre and James Ball. She gave back $6 to win the favorite spot.
Bred by VanMatre in Kentucky, she was created from a winning mare bred by Indiana define hope (Strong hope ), who has a little girl yearning Runhappy .
Videotapes: End of Year S. (BT)
Frosted Departure Breakthrough in the Renaissance
C&H Diamond Racing and Magdalena Racing dim departure became a bet winner on his ninth start, passing 3-5 favorites Two Rivers of Eagles late to win $150,000 Renaissance Stakes.
Frosted Departure (right) next to Two Eagles Rivers in Renaissance Stakes
Removed by Francisco Arrieta, Frosted Departure is closely following the Advent Stakes winner Count de Monet through the initial fractions :21.95 and :45.38 for the first half mile. The victor gains control upon entering the ramp but is quickly joined by the favorite, and the two fight towards the ropes, with Frosted Departure dominating by head on the final steps. He completed six stretches at a ratio of 1: 10.91 on a fast track. The son of blur paid $21.20 to win
Bourbon Bash in third and followed by the Count de Monet, Choctaw Zip and Spurrier .
Winning coach Kenny McPeek said: “He sometimes hits and misses. “When things go for him, he’s very difficult, and you have to get him to lie a little closer. I was a little nervous when the number 6 (Count de Monet) rushed out in front of him, and then There he stooped and walked around. But (Francisco) Arrieta did a great job of it. That was great.”
Frosted Departure, a $100,000 Keeneland Yearling Sale acquisition in September by his trainer from a Blandford Stud shipment in 2021, improved his earnings to $246,711. Bred in Kentucky by the Purebred Alastar Company, he came out of More than readiness mare inflexible . The dam of the five winners, she also produced persist (california chrome ), who most recently booked on November 24 Cardinal Stakes (G3T).
Videotapes: Renaissance S. (BT)
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