Run Curtis Run wins Carle Place in NY return

Run Curtis Run’s connections figured the New York-bred colt would appreciate some class relief, along with a return to a more favorable distance back in his native state, and the son of Summer Front proved them correct in Sunday’s $120,000 Carle Place Stakes at the Belmong at the Big A meeting.

“This horse has run his heart out,” said Michael Dubb, who co-owns Run Curtis Run with Michael Caruso. “He’s been a longshot in his last three races and has gotten no respect. He’s been a bridesmaid each time. I thought today he would like being back in New York and the 6 furlongs.

“The horses he had been facing, he was getting a bit of class relief today, but this was still a nice group of horses. I thought it all might gel together today.”

Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Run Curtis Run overcame a squeeze at the start and closed from last of nine to win the open-company stakes by 1 1/2 lengths over Grooms All Bizness with 2-1 favorite Outlaw Kid third and fellow New York-bred Just Jeremy fourth. Run Curtis Run won in 1:09.43 over the firm turf.

“I was squeezed very hard,” Ortiz said of the break. “It felt like [Grooms All Bizness] came over to me. It was a terrible trip and definitely not what we wanted to see out of the gate. But I felt like my horse was running with better horses and I gave him his shot to show off his class, and he did. It’s very hard to close on this soft ground of the outer turf, and he did. That shows that he was the best horse in this race by far.”

Second in his last three starts – an allowance at Churchill Downs, the Grade 2 Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and the Grade 2 Franklin Simpson Stakes at Kentucky Downs – Run Curtis Run won for the first time since the Rick Violette Stakes in July 2021 at Saratoga.

Trained by Mike Maker, Run Curtis Run also placed in the William Walker Stakes on the grass at Churchill this spring and finished second in last year’s Grade 3 Futurity at Belmont Park. The Carle Place victory, worth $66,000, improved Run Curtis Run’s record to 3-4-1 in 10 starts with earnings of $317,300.

Bred by Larry Goichman and foaled at Edition Farm in Hyde Park, Run Curtis Run is the sixth foal out of the stakes-winning Grade 3-placed Forest Wildcat mare My Magic Moment. Bred in New York and raced by Goichman, My Magic Moment earned $149,813 during three seasons, winning the Missy Moo I Love You Stakes and finishing third in the Grade 3 Miss Grillo Stakes in 2008 and placing in two stakes in 2009.

Goichman, through consignor Indian Creek, sold Run Curtis Run for $45,000 to Sean S. Perl Bloodstock LLC at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale.

My Magic Moment is the dam of three winners – Run Curtis Run, the New York-bred Candy Ride mare Candy for Kisses and the New York-bred Pulpit gelding Bold Bid. She’s also the dam of the unraced 2-year-old New York-bred Accelerate filly The Couples Girl and a weanling colt by Catalina Cruiser born Feb. 25.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2022/10/23/run-curtis-run-wins-carle-place-in-ny-return/

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Royal: New York-bred mare wins her third stakes of 2022

By Sean Clancy 

Kate Dalton rolled a leather shank, picked up two bandages and then stopped and stared.

“Princess.”

Down Royal, a white light 8-year-old mare stood across the back wall of a temporary tent stall at the International Gold Cup races, the sixth whistle stop on a 10-stop fall steeplechase champaign. Hours earlier, the New York-bred daughter of Alphabet Soup earned her third stakes win in 2022, rallying past City Dreamer over the last hurdle and holding off Going Country in Saturday’s Grade 2 David “Zeke” Ferguson stakes at the Great Meadow course in The Plains, Virginia.

Bred by Kate and her husband/jockey, Bernie, foaled at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs and owned by Joe Fowler Jr., the daughter of Alphabet Soup continued a revitalization which has copped six wins and a second in seven starts since coming off Lasix for her first start in 2021.

Consistent and steady before that, Down Royal has put together a string of success and a story for the ages.

Trained year-round in Camden, S.C., by the hard-working couple, Down Royal increased her lifetime earnings to $322,474 and yet again proved her durability and resiliency. She upset the Grade 1 A.P. Smithwick at Saratoga this summer, running her win streak to four and then finished off the board in the Grade 1 Jonathan Sheppard. Undeterred, the Daltons regrouped and aimed at the Ferguson two months later.

She did the rest, settling in the back of the four-horse field before slipping through the inside to win on her own.

A fan leaned on the post and rail fence outside the winner’s circle and said it best.

“They’re good people.”

He was talking about the breeders, the owner, the trainer, the jockey and certainly the horse.

The Daltons campaigned her dam, Miss Crown, to two wins and a bunch of stakes placings over a 17-race career. They bred her to Alphabet Soup and started the journey. Where does the journey go next?

“What a star. Maybe you’ll see her next year,” Bernie Dalton said on his way to the scale after the stakes win.

Back at the barn at the end of the day, Kate Dalton wasn’t committing to anything.

“We always wanted to send her to Ireland to breed her to a National Hunt sire, she’s earned over $300,000,” Dalton said. “I took her out to show her to Joe and his wife after the race and she jumped up in the air and got her leg over the shank. Princess…”

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2022/10/23/royal-new-york-bred-mare-wins-her-third-stakes-of-2022/

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