By Alan Carasso
The late action came for New York-bred Haveyougoneaway (Congrats), as she crashed down into 7-2 after sitting on the board at as much as 7-1 for a fair amount of time ahead of Wednesday's GII Honorable Miss H. at Saratoga. And the money proved right on. A recent private acquisition by Sequel Racing, the 5-year-old mare sat an excellent trip behind swift early fractions, was tipped out at the top of the stretch by Kendrick Carmouche and just got the better of a final-furlong tussle to down a tough-as-nails Paulassilverlining (Ghostzapper) in the dying strides. It was another dozen lengths back to Disco Chick (Jump Start) in third. The win was the first in graded company for trainer Tom Morley. “It's very special to do it with a New York-bred. I'm a huge fan of the New York-bred program,” he commented. “Off the back of today's performance, you have to consider the [GI] Breeders' Cup [Filly & Mare Sprint].”
Wednesday, Saratoga
HONORABLE MISS H.-GII, $200,000, SAR, 7-27, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:09.94, ft.
1–@HAVEYOUGONEAWAY, 117, m, 5, by Congrats
1st Dam: One Wise Cowgirl, by Wiseman's Ferry
2nd Dam: Star One One, by Caller I. D.
3rd Dam: Majestic Karen, by His Majesty
($50,000 Wlg '11 FTKNOV; $105,000 Ylg '12 SARAUG;
$100,000 RNA 2yo '13 OBSOPN; $1,200 2yo '13 KEENOV).
O-Sequel Racing; B-Andy & Susan Beadnell (NY); T-Thomas
Morley; J-Kendrick Carmouche. $120,000. Lifetime Record:
25-10-4-6, $622,425. Werk Nick Rating: A. *Triple Plus*. Click
for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
[bullet ad=”most-2″][bullet ad=”fourstar-salesgrad”][bullet ad=”nytb-12000″]2–Paulassilverlining, 122, f, 4, Ghostzapper">Ghostzapper–Seeking the Silver,
by Grindstone. O/B-Vince Scuderi (KY); T-Michelle Nevin.
$40,000.
[bullet ad=”hidden-brook-hidden-brook-foaled-raised”][bullet ad=”tdmsales-brokenandtrained”]3–Disco Chick, 116, m, 5, Jump Start–Disco Flirt, by Disco Rico.
O/B-Yaroslaw J Kolybabiuic (PA); T-Mario Serey Jr. $20,000.
Margins: NK, 12, 2HF. Odds: 3.70, 1.45, 10.80.
Also Ran: La Madrina, Sarah Sis, Diva Express, Bar of Gold.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
Purchased by the Texas-based Champion Racing Stable for just $1,200 as a then-unraced 2-year-old on the 10th and final day of the 2013 Keeneland November sale, Haveyougoneaway had a productive sophomore season with three wins and a third-placing in the Remington Park Oaks while under the care of trainer Allen Milligan.
Kept busy at four, she added three more victories, including a maiden black-type win in the Flashy Lady S. in Oklahoma City last September, and kicked off 2016 with back-to-back tallies at Oaklawn Park, first in the Jan. 23 American Beauty S.–defeating the accomplished Sarah Sis (Sharp Humor)–and the Spring Fever S. Feb. 20. Runner-up at odds-on in the Carousel S. Apr. 14, she was scooped up by these connections and was a creditable second to Bar of Gold (Medaglia d'Oro) going a mile in a sloppy renewal of the one-mile Critical Eye S. at Belmont May 30. She cut back to this trip for the Dancin Renee S. July 3 and raced away to post a 2 3/4-length victory, giving Morley his first stakes winner. There was even better to come Wednesday.
One of the last to leave the gates, Haveyougoneaway settled in about sixth position behind a fierce early pace, attended through the opening stages by Paulassilverlining, but that one backed out of it, wisely, as the first quarter was up in :22.01. Disco Chick, part of that early vanguard, shrugged off her dueling rivals as they raced into the lane after a half-mile in :45.04, with Paulassilverlining bearing down just to her outside, while Haveyougoneaway was tipped out into the five path by the heretofore winless Kendrick Carmouche. The chalk, who drifted from odds-on into 7-5 in the final few clicks, grabbed Disco Chick a furlong and a half from another graded stakes win, but was joined by Haveyougoneaway at the eighth pole. But the latter, in receipt of six pounds, kept grinding it out and surged past a game Paulassilverlining in the final 25 yards for a first graded success of her own.
“She ran so well last time against New York breds that it was time to face open graded stakes company,” the jubilant winning trainer added. “Today was a massive target for this filly. There's no reason she can't stay in training as a 6-year-old. The [GI] Ballerina [S. Aug. 27] has to be a consideration.”
Pedigree Notes:
Haveyougoneaway is the ninth individual graded winner for WinStar Farm's Congrats and is one of four of her sire's graded winners to descend from Storm Cat-line mares. Turbulent Descent, herself a GI Ballerina S. winner and three additional Grade I events, was produced by the Forestry mare Roger's Sue, while GI Darley Alcibiades S. victrix Wickedly Perfect is out of a mare by Tactical Cat. Venus Valentine, upset winner of this year's GII TwinSpires.com Rachel Alexandra S., is out of a mare by Stormin Fever.
For the three years after being bred to Congrats, One Wise Cowgirl visited other sire sons of A.P. Indy, producing the Majestic Warrior colt Soldado Universal in 2012, followed by the as-yet unraced Girolamo filly Lucky Lilly in 2013. The mare's current 2-year-old is another Girolamo filly named She'sakittycat and she is the dam of a yearling filly of this year by Take Charge Indy. After foaling a colt by Central Banker this past Mar. 26, One Wise Cowgirl was bred back to Congrats. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
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