Itsallcomintogetha improves to 2-for-7 with upset victory in Thursday’s Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Susie Raisher/NYRA Photo.
By Nolan Clancy
Like father, and mother, like son.
Itsallcomintogetha completed a family trifecta of Saratoga winners with a gate-to-wire win in the $150,000 Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes Thursday at Saratoga Race Course.
The bay colt collected his first stakes victory in the day’s final race for trainer Phil Serpe, also the trainer of his sire Weekend Hideaway and dam Ladywell Court.
“They’re all runners … It’s great to do that. It is,” Serpe said, on training both sides of the colt’s bloodline. “I’m just really happy for the people that own him.”
Weekend Hideaway collected five wins at Saratoga, including scores in the John Morrissey Stakes in 2014 and 2018. Ladywell Court won at the Spa in her final start in 2012.
The Hilly Fields Stable homebred broke strongly from the two post and found the rail early under Jose Gomez, splitting the opening quarter-mile in :24.18 and opening a length lead as the six-horse field entered the backstretch.
From there, Itsallcomintogetha relaxed into a 49.25 half-mile on the lead, while favorite Ramblin’ Wreck found himself four lengths from the lead under Irad Ortiz Jr. The Danny Gargan-trained Redesdale gelding got the best of Itsallcomintogetha in the Spectacular Bid division of the NYSSS at 7 furlongs at Belmont June 18.
The 3-year-old colt held off a late charge from Ramblin’ Wreck, completing the mile over Saratoga’s inner turf course in 1:36.62.
“Last time, we went a little shorter and he rode competitive. He likes to fight,” said Gomez, who collected his first win of the Saratoga meet. “But when he’s out there on his own, he relaxes a little more and me and Phil thought the mile would be perfect for him.”
“I think the two turns is more important than anything, because he’s quick and he can get through the turns pretty quickly,” Serpe said.
The trainer also attributes some success to Itsallcomintogetha’s growth and maturation into his 3-year-old season.
“He’s easily 200 pounds heavier than he was as a 2-year-old,” Serpe said.
Vacation Dance, a The Lieutenant colt, stayed on to finish third under Kendrick Carmouche, while Superestrella gelding Willintoriskitall finished fourth. Twenty Six Black and Mama Banned Me completed the field.
Itsallcomintogetha is the sixth foal out of Ladywell Court, also the dam of stakes winners Lady Joan and Goodbye Brockley. Serpe trained Lady Joan, winner of the 2017 Cupecoy’s Joy division of the NYSS; and Goodbye Brockley, winner of the 2018 Statue of Liberty division of the NYSS.
Itsallcomintogetha collected the first win by a son of the now-pensioned Weekend Hideaway, a 1-mile maiden race on the turf at Belmont May 6.
Additional reporting by Alec DiConza.
