Gone and Forgotten, Barry Schwartz’s homebred Bustin Stones mare, wins second straight Arctic Queen Stakes Monday at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.
Barry Schwartz’s homebred Gone and Forgotten continued her dominance over the older filly and mare division at Finger Lakes Monday with her second straight victory in the $50,000 Arctic Queen Stakes.
Based at Finger Lakes with trainer Michael Ferraro, the 6-5 favorite settled in fourth, 3 lengths behind the 7-5 second choice Queen Arella before rallying to win by 1 3/4 lengths. Curly rallied to be second over Queen Arella. Luis Perez guided the daughter of Bustin Stones. The duo has now won 11 races from 17 starts. Gone and Forgotten finished 6 furlongs in 1:12.81 and increased her earnings to $226,865.
Gone and Forgotten began her career at Finger Lakes in August 2021. She won five of seven starts, including her last three, that season.
In 2022, she tacked on two wins and a second before making her stakes debut in the Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes. Gone and Forgotten drew off to win the $50,000 stakes by 5 1/2 lengths. She tacked on the Arctic Queen in her next start. She finished last season with a seventh in the Iroquois at the Belmont at the Big A meet, her only start away from central New York, and a second at Finger Lakes in November. This season, she finished third in her 5-year-old debut June 14 before taking an allowance July 12.
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 4-year-old Maclean’s Music gelding Red Fortress, a winner in a maiden special weight last September and in a claiming race July 31 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 last year.
Bustin Stones, a 19-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 fourth on the New York general sire list with progeny earnings of more than $1.4 million in 2023.
