New York-bred 2-year-old Tojo’s Mojo gives Name Changer his first winner Sunday at Laurel Park. Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club Photo.
New York-based freshman stallion and graded stakes winner Name Changer sired his first winner Sunday when Tojo’s Mojo won the first race at Laurel Park.
Bred in New York by Majestic View Farms Intl. and owned by Joanne Geruso, Tojo’s Mojo delivered in his second start in the $47,000 maiden special weight going 5 furlongs. The 3-5 favorite, Tojo’s Mojo won by 3 lengths under Jorge Ruiz for trainer John Salzman Jr.
Name Changer, an 11-year-old son of Uncle Mo out of the stakes-winning Northern Afleet mare Cash’s Girl, stands for $2,500 at Peter Kazamias’ Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown.
Name Changer, who stands for $2,500 at Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown, sired his first winner Sunday. Susie Raisher Photo.
Name Changer won eight of 24 starts with two seconds and eight thirds for $567,080 in earnings. Bred and raced by Richard Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables and trained during his career by Alan Goldberg and his successor with Colts Neck’s runners, Jorge Duarte Jr..
Name Changer won the Grade 3 Monmouth Cup Stakes in 2018 at Monmouth Park and finished third in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby in 2016 at Mountaineer Park.
Name Changer won two other stakes during his career – the 2016 Richard W. Small at Laurel Park and 2018 Queens County at Aqueduct, and placed in five other stakes.
