Barry Schwartz’s homebred Bustin Stones filly Gone and Forgotten collects second straight stakes win Monday in the Arctic Queen at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.
Barry Schwartz’s homebred filly Gone and Forgotten returned to a sprint distance for the first time since early June and came away with her second stakes victory in Monday’s $35,000 Arctic Queen at Finger Lakes.
The 4-year-old daughter of Bustin Stones added the 6-furlong Arctic Queen to her victory last time out in the Jack Betta Be Rite going 1 1/16 miles Aug. 15 at Finger Lakes. She ran in back-to-back 1-mile and 70-yard tests prior to that win, winning a state-bred optional-allowance and finishing second in an open allowance.
Sent off as the 4-5 favorite against five other New York-bred fillies and mares in the Arctic Queen, Gone and Forgotten made quick work of the opposition with her ninth victory in 12 starts, all at Finger Lakes, for trainer Michael Ferraro.
Gone and Forgotten and jockey Luis Perez broke from the gate on top before relinquishing the lead to the speedy 3-year-old Queens Dancer from the inside. Queens Dancer led to the opening quarter-mile in :22.69, about 3 lengths clear of Gone and Forgotten with Steel My Heart and Sabreen just to the outside.
Tax Me Naught, runner-up to Gone and Forgotten in the Jack Betta Be Rite last time, entered the fray and came up inside the eventual winner as they gave chase to Queens Dancer around the far turn and to the half in :45.83. Gone and Forgotten shook that rival off and later the pacesetter in the stretch, taking the lead just inside the eighth pole and drawing off in deep stretch to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Gone and Forgotten won in 1:11.27.
Jackie Davis, the jockey aboard Queens Dancer, filed an unsuccessful objection against the winner for alleged interference in the stretch. Queens Dancer held second, 1 3/4 lengths in front of Tax Me Naught in third. Sabrine, Party in the Raine and Steal My Heart completed the field.
Gone and Forgotten earned $21,000 for the victory to pad her career bankroll to $171,705.
Foaled at Schwartz’s Stonewall Farm in Granite Springs, Gone and Forgotten is the third foal and one of three winners out of the stakes-winning Yes It’s True mare Little Rocket. Her other two New York-bred foals also won at Finger Lakes – the Scat Daddy mare Tropical Storm Em in 2019 and the 3-year-old Maclean’s Music gelding Red Fortress, a winner in a maiden special weight Sept. 27 also for Schwartz and Ferraro.
Little Rocket won five of 19 starts for Schwartz from 2012 to 2014. She won the 2014 Susan B. Anthony Stakes and finished third in that year’s edition of the Jack Betta Be Rite, both at Finger Lakes. She’s out of the Pentelicus mare How About Now, winner of the Grade 2 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga in 1996 for Schwartz and trainer Mike Hushion.
Little Rocket was sold in foal to Tamarkuz for $19,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. She produced a filly by that sire in Turkey this April.
Bustin Stones, an 18-year-old undefeated Grade 1-winning son of City Zip, stands for $2,500 at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham. He came into Monday ranked sixth on the New York general sire list with progeny earnings of more than $1.2 million in 2022
