When young Steve Moger bought quiet boy for $420,000 without telling their coach, brother Ed Moger Jr., neither of the brothers could have imagined the joy they were about to begin with their son. Shackleford .
The 5-year-old has become a steady performer for the brothers and hit the field on March 4 to claim the Santa Anita Handicap (G1), scoring his first grade 1 win in a winning fashion. Fight to the end your usual.
The boy Stilleto broke through the gate cleanly and overcame the opponent who was setting speed out of money through the opening fractions of :23,34, :46,16, and 1:10,72. Turning around on the final bend, horse rider Kent Desormeaux sought his spot, shook the reins, and steered Stilleto Boy between the horses. The white-faced chestnut knocked out his opponents, knocking them out one by one for the rope in a final time of 2:01.96 in the 1 1/4 mile test.
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“When my brother (Steve) told me he had bought the horse, I thought it was going to be a battle, he was racing in the Midwest, and we were going to have to put him in the ancient races. part in Southern California because that’s the only place he could run,” admits Ed Moger. “I thought it would be hard to do, but Desormeaux got him soon, and he absolutely loved the horse. One morning after working with him, he asked me for this horse. where, and I told him my brother got it Kentucky for $420,000, and his words were, ‘That’s a steal!’ I was quite surprised when he said that.”
When Steve Moger saw gelding at the Fasig-Tipton Race Horse Sale in July 2021, young Stilleto had just won the Iowa Derby thanks to a partnership that included his breeders John and Iveta Kerber in the seventh start. While slow to break his maidenhood, waiting until age 3 in Oaklawn Park’s special girl weight at 1 1/16 miles, he has since been a consistent performer for Mogers.
Stilleto boy at Fasig-Tipton July 2021 Selling horses for racing age
Since changing hands, Stilleto Boy has won the chessboard in nine other classified events, including Awesome Again (G1) and Malibu Stakes (G1) in 2021, and the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1), Santa Anita Handicap, Californian Stakes (G2) ), San Diego Handicap (G2) and San Antonio (G2) last year. He knocked the Californian 2 1/4 of the length to win his first graded bet.
This year, he started his five-year campaign with a solid third at the Pegasus World Cup, followed by a crowning victory in Saturday’s Santa Anita Handicap. His team will head towards the Oaklawn Handicap (G2) on April 22 for his next start, with plans to give the horse a softer campaign in 2023, culminating in a culmination of a run. starting in the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.
Ed Moger commented: “In our mind we were thinking Breeders ‘Cup, it’s coming back here and he’s always running well in Santa Anita,” Ed Moger commented. “We’re going to try not to race him too much this year, last year we went a bit too far, and then we had to miss the Breeders’ Cup… thinking Oaklawn, maybe a fight race, then the Breeders’ Cup.”
Ed Moger Jr. with the boy Stilleto at Del Mar
Gelding is the second highest priced item in the 2021 sale, consigned by Paramount Sales; he got off the winning mare Marquetry Rosie’s Ransom . A maker of stake winners My Roses Roses and bet money close the apartment Stilleto won the 1st grade prize today as her most outstanding achievement.
After Saturday’s Stilleto Boy win, he hit a record 4-4-8 in 21 starts and earned $1,711,675. His Shackleford, according to Forestry, stands at Darby Dan Farm until 2020, when he moves to the Korea Racing Administration. A three-time 1st place winner of $3,090,101 who won the Preakness Stakes in 2011, he is represented in the United States by his two first grade winning sons, Promise fulfilled one earner $1,455,530, currently working at WinStar Farm, and Stilleto Boy, who will be looking to maintain bank deposits this year.
