Scuds- Rogue Agent
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11/19) Rogue Agent cruises to open allowance victory
New York-bred ROGUE AGENT won his second consecutive open allowance with another wire-to-wire effort over the sloppy going at Aqueduct Racetrack. Despite his previous easy score, 12-days prior, when he won by 3-1/4 lengths, Rogue Agent went to the post at odds of 7-2 in the NW-2X other than Maiden, Claiming, Starter or Restricted condition allowance, which carried a $50,000 purse. Run at 1-1/8th mile around two-turns, 7-horses went to the post with rider Norberto Arroyo, Jr. aboard Rogue Agent for trainer Michael Brice.
Quickest of all out of the gate, Rogue Agent won the run into the first turn and dictated the pace of the race throughout. After a half-mile in 48.2 and three-quarters in 1:12.1, the unchallenged Rogue Agent came to the top of the stretch with a commanding 4-length lead, which he increased to 6-lengths crossing the wire. Final time was 1:51 flat.
Claimed for $30,000 by Scott Fein and Gene Parrotta, Rogue Agent has now won twice for the new connections and finished second in his only other outing. Fein and Parrotta qualified for an open owner's award of $6,000 for today's score. Rogue Agent has now banked $198,795 with a Lifetime Record: 24-6-3-2.
Bred by Eaton & Thorne, Inc., which qualified for a $6,000 breeder award, Rogue Agent was consigned to Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's October 2000 yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland, by Thomas J. and Nadine Gallo, agent, and bought by Spendthrift Farm, which signed the sales slip for $10,000. His sire is former New York stallion Anjiz, who had stood at Louis Salerno's Questroyal Stud in Hudson and whose owners of four years ago -- Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum's Kentucky-based Gainsborough Farm and Questroyal #100 LLC -- qualified for a $2,100 stallion award. The chestnut gelding is the ninth winner produced from Ruler's Storm, being a full brother to one winner and a half-brother to Grade 2 NYRA winner Love That Mac ($864,085) and to the winning granddam of stakes winner Shandra Smiles. Dam Ruler's Storm, who is by Irish Ruler, is a half-sister to the dam of French Group 1 winner Escaline and Italian Group 3 winner Esdale (their dam also is granddam of German champion Royal Abjar) and to the granddams of Mexican champion Pensativa and French Group 2 winner Califet. Rogue Agent's co-breeder, Oakleigh Thorne of Amenia, had purchased Ruler's Storm for $27,000 at Keeneland's 1990 November Sale.
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