6/23-24 (BEL): Mother Goose (G1); Mike Lee, Bouwerie, Tweedside

[RolloTomasi]

What's with this "Tweedside" race?

Please tell me there are turf stakes races named for Wonder Again, Memories Of Silver, Perfect Arc, Perfect Sting, Soaring Softly, and Auntie Mame as well.

If not, here are some comparable ideas for stakes:

the "Fire Slam" 3yo, 6f main track
the "Jamies First Punch" 3yo, 8.5f main track
the "Friendly Michelle" 3yo F, 6f main track
the "Jilbab" 3yo F, 8.5f main track
the "Anew" 4yo and up, 6f main track
the "Frost Giant" 4yo and up, 8.5f main track
the "Gold Princess" 4yo and up FM, 6f main track
the "Funny Moon" 4yo and up FM, 8.5f main track
the "Timo" 3yo, 8f turf
the "Go Deputy" 4yo and up, 10f turf
the "Argentina" 4yo and up FM, 10f turf

[blackthroatedwind]

You will never get over your Timo obsession.

It's actually kind of sad.

[Calzone Lord]

It is kind of funny that Tweedside has a race named after her. I went back and looked at her record at Belmont.

1st start - Career debut. No lasix. Finished last beaten 20 lengths going 7f for Pletcher.

2nd start - Won the Sands Point -- race was rained off the turf. Beat 3 other rivals. Tommy Turner rode even money favorite Platinum Tiara.

3rd start - Won Coaching Club American Oaks by 7+ lengths at 10/1 odds. Chris McCarron fell off of the 4-to-5 favorite Starrer at the start. Everyone else couldn't get the 12 furlongs.

4th start - Tweedside makes her Belmont Park turf debut in the Flower Bowl. She did not finish the race at odds of 31/1. "Tired, eased in stretch" Laline, England's Legend, and Starine 1-2-3 in a strong edition.

5th start - Tweedside wins the Sheepshead Bay by a nose. Sweetest Thing and Golden Corona beaten a nose in 3-way photo finish for the win.

6th and final start at BEL - Tweedside 5th of 7 in the New York Handicap. She was 4/1. The highweight in the race was the Darrel Vienna trained Janet -- who was shipping in off of a 2nd place finish at Bay Meadows in the Yerba Buena.

Tweedside was 3-2-0-0 on the BEL dirt and 3-1-0-0 on the BEL turf.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

6th and final start at BEL - Tweedside 5th of 7 in the New York Handicap. She was 4/1. The highweight in the race was the Darrel Vienna trained Janet -- who was shipping in off of a 2nd place finish at Bay Meadows in the Yerba Buena.

Janet was a good racemare. She was highweight because she was a dual Grade 1 winner, knocking off Tranquility Lake in the Ramona and Yellow Ribbon. The loss at Bay Meadows on the surface may have been embarrassing, but the winner of that race was a first-time Euro import for Gary Tanaka and Bobby Frankel named Peu a Peu. In her only other start in the US, which came about a week before the New York Handicap, Peu a Peu nearly ran down the monster turf mare Astra in a Grade 1 at Hollywood.

Curiously, Janet was shipped to NY 3 times in her career, all to no avail. She caught bad weather trying the Sheepshead Bay, which was transfered to the main track (she was a modest 3rd). She got crushed in the Diana at Saratoga in between her Grade 1 wins in CA. She only made a couple of more starts after the New York. Earned a $1 million.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

You will never get over your Timo obsession.

It's actually kind of sad.

It's a shame that shipping in for Royal Ascot wasn't in vogue when he was in his prime.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

It's a shame that shipping in for Royal Ascot wasn't in vogue when he was in his prime.

He was no Hyper.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

He was no Hyper.

At this point, shouldn't there be about 10 claims in for any Chad Brown-trained Ramsey horse debuting in a maiden claimer on the grass?

Didn't the horse that nearly knocked off his Euro import in the Manhattan start off that way?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

At this point, shouldn't there be about 10 claims in for any Chad Brown-trained Ramsey horse debuting in a maiden claimer on the grass?

Didn't the horse that nearly knocked off his Euro import in the Manhattan start off that way?

Yep, Papaw Bodie was claimed for 50k last October from Paul McGee, who took over his training from Linda Rice, who claimed him for 25k in October 2010 at Belmont.

He has made roughly 350k since the claim. Might have been enough to cover the shipping for Hyper and Big Blue Kitten to Ascot.

[richard]

Beautiful But Blue is from the immediate family of Ausable Chasm.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

What's with this "Tweedside" race?

Please tell me there are turf stakes races named for Wonder Again, Memories Of Silver, Perfect Arc, Perfect Sting, Soaring Softly, and Auntie Mame as well.

Maybe the plan is for the race to be rained off of the turf like her Sands Point.

It is odd that they named a turf stake after her for 3yo fillies when she never even won on the BEL turf at age 3 and her first stakes win on turf didn't come until her 4yo season.