TDN RISING STARS

September 14, 2013 - Woodbine, Race 9, , CAD $193,433, 1M, FM

My Conquestadory, f, 2, 2011 by Artie Schiller

1st Dam: Golden Artemis (MSP), by Malibu Moon
2nd Dam: Native Trinket, by Dove Hunt
3rd Dam: Miss Gem, by Exclusive Gem

Owner: Conquest Stables
Breeder: Paul Tackett (KY)
Trainer: Mark Casse

Trainer Mark Casse elected to scratch My Conquestadory (Artie Schiller) from the GII Natalma S. against her own sex in favor of this, and the decision paid major dividends, as the $240,000 OBS March graduate ran away with the GII Summer S. With the victory she earns a spot in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita Nov. 1. My Conquestadory was bred by Paul Tackett, who claimed the filly's multiple stakes-placed dam for $8,000 out of a race at Charles Town in January 2010.  Tackett gave the filly a few months, then bred her to Artie Schiller late in the season, and the mare foaled Apr. 12, 2011. Tackett consigned her to last year's Keeneland September sale sold her to an outfit named Biltmore Mansion Racing for $70,000. They turned the dark bay to Eisaman Equine to be prepared for the March sale and she breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 before being knocked down to Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell's Conquest Stables LLC. My Conquestadory was put into steady training in May and shaped with promise over the Safe-Track at the Ocala Training Center and didn't miss a beat once transferred to trainer Mark Casse's Woodbine base. She fired a bullet five furlongs over the turf training track in 1:00 4/5 Aug. 21 and followed with a best-of-13 three furlongs from the gate in :36 1/5 Aug. 28 on the Polytrack and was made a 5-1 chance to open her account in the best possible way. My Conquestadory jumped alertly and landed slightly better than midfield as Tropic of Artie (Artie Schiller) set the pace narrowly from Phenomenalmoon (Malibu Moon) and Asserting Bear (Bear's Kid). Asked to quicken rounding the turn, My Conquestadora loomed up three wide and soon had the front-runners at her mercy. Held together nicely by Eurico Rosa da Silva into the final furlong and a half, she shifted into yet another gear and came away to score very impressively. "I didn't think about losing the race. It never came to my mind that she could be beat," said da Silva. "I had great confidence in her and the whole [Casse] team said how nice she is. She's a great filly." Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $115,908.