Acoustic Ave (inside) gets up in time to edge Andiamo a Firenze (6) to win Monday’s Breeders’ Futurity at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.
Dean and Patti Reeves’ Reeves Thoroughbred Racing were active buyers at Monday’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga October mixed sale, shopping for racing prospects to join the likes of their latest established New York-bred star in Acoustic Ave.
Acoustic Ave, three weeks removed from a victory in the Aspirant Stakes, collected a second Finger Lakes stakes victory for Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, trainer Christophe Clement and jockey Manny Franco in Monday’s $158,579 New York Breeders’ Futurity. The 2-year-old son of Maclean’s Music edged odds-on favorite Andiamo a Firenze by a nose to win the 6-furlong Breeders’ Futurity and improve to 3-for-4.
Bred by Chester and Mary Broman and purchased by the Reeves Thoroughbred Racing for $200,000 at the OBS April sale of 2-year-olds in training, Acoustic Ave also turned the tables on Andiamo a Firenze after finishing a distant third behind that foe in the $200,000 Funny Cide Stakes on Saratoga Showcase Day in late August.
Sent off as the 3-1 second choice in the field of eight behind the 1-2 Andiamo a Firenze, Acoustic Ave came away well under Franco and slid through the inside to take the lead. Acoustic Ave led through the opening quarter-mile in :21.90, just ahead of Andiamo a Firenze and Jose Lezcano with the filly Stonewall Star and Jose Ortiz tracking the two leaders from third.
Acoustic Star and Andiamo a Firenze continued as a team around the far turn, to the half in :45.01 with the latter poking a head in front approaching the top of the stretch. Stonewall Star, an open-length maiden winner Sept. 22 during the at the Big A at Aqueduct, also made a big run toward the lead approaching the stretch.
The trio raced as a team from the top of the lane to the finish, with Acoustic Ave eventually edging Andiamo a Firenze in the final stride. Stonewall Star finished another length back in third with Mshindi fourth. Acoustic Ave won in 1:11.78. Gold in Them Hills, Mo Trump, The Catillac Kid and Tiz Lucky completed the field.
Foaled at the Broman’s Chestertown Farm in Chestertown, Acoustic Ave is the first foal out of the winning Street Boss mare Rock Ave. Road. He breezed an eighth in :10 during OBS presale workouts before selling as Hip 975 through the Sequel Bloodstock consignment.
Rock Ave. Road is out of the Broman-bred multiple stakes winner and $270,550-earner Mineralogist, a daughter of Mineshaft out of the Broman’s homebred Grade 2 winner Seeking the Ante. A daughter of Seeking the Gold, Seeking the Ante is out of Grade 1 Antespend, who Broman bought as a 4-year-old for $900,000 at the 1997 Keeneland April sale.
Acoustic Ave, who earned $58,712 for the win to boost his bankroll to $131,112, is a half-brother to a New York-bred yearling colt by West Coast and a New York-bred weanling colt by New York-bred champion and Grade 1 winner Audible born in April.
Acoustic Ave breezed once between his win in the Aspirant and the Breeders’ Futurity – going 5 furlongs in 1:01.70 on Saratoga Race Course’s Oklahoma Training Track Oct. 9. He earned $95,148 for the Breeders’ Futurity win, boosting his bankroll to $226,260.
