Tin Type Gal The Picture of Grittiness In Boiling Springs

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Tin Type Gal, scratched out of Friday's GII Lake George S. at Saratoga, skimmed the rail in a perfectly timed last-to-first ride by Trevor McCarthy to earn her second graded stakes victory in Sunday's GIII Boiling Springs S. at Monmouth Park. Second choice in the field of seven, the My Meadowview homebred was taken in hand shortly after the break and was some seven lengths off the pacesetters going into the first turn. She saved ground along the rail down the backstretch as longshot Winter (Awesome Again) took the compact field through fractions of :23.54 and :48.05. Forced to check slightly up on heels after three-quarters in 1:11.94, Tin Type Gal was last at the top of the lane, but dove through an opening at the rail soon after straightening for home, pulled on even terms with favored Galileo's Song at the sixteenth pole and gamely repelled that one to earn the gritty victory.

“She popped out of the gate well and I just wanted to get her comfortable,” McCarthy said. “She settled nicely near the back. I got a little anxious turning for home, but when the spot opened at the rail she just shot through there. I tapped her on the shoulder just a couple of times and every time I asked her she just gave me more. She sure showed her class today.”

Winning trainer Graham Motion agreed. “She is a classy filly,” Motion said. “This seemed like a logical spot for her. I just wanted to get this one under my belt.”

As for where the filly could start next, Motion added, “I don't want to get too far ahead of myself.”

Well beaten while debuting in an off-the-turf sprint at Saratoga last July, Tin Type Gal graduated going 1 1/16-miles over the Saratoga turf Aug. 23 and earned a berth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with a narrow score in the Sept. 27 GIII Miss Grillo S., but missed championship weekend and went to the sidelines. She closed late after a wide trip to be fifth, beaten two lengths, by Friday's Lake George winner Ancient Secret (Kantharos) in the June 19 Wild Applause S.

PEDIGREE NOTES:

Tin Type Gal's dam Miss Shop won the 2007 GII Rampart H. and GI Personal Ensign S. in the colors of her legendary breeder, Hobeau Farm. The mare is a half-sister to graded stakes winning sire Trappe Shot (Tapit) and to stakes winner Shop Again (Wild Again), dam of 2012 GI FrontRunner S. winner Power Broker (Pulpit). Tin Type Gal is Miss Shop's fourth foal. She produced a filly by Super Saver this spring and was bred back to Tapit.

Hobeau Farm, founded in Ocala by Jack Dreyfus in the 1960s, was ranked in the top 10 in national earnings for 15 consecutive years. The operation was completely dispersed by 2010, a year after Dreyfus's death. Among the highlights of the dispersal was Trappe Shot, who sold for a then-Maryland-record $850,000 at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale.

Sunday, Monmouth Park
BOILING SPRINGS S.-GIII, $103,000, MTH, 7-24, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:47.71, fm.
1–TIN TYPE GAL, 118, f, 3, by Tapit
1st Dam: Miss Shop (GISW, $1,126,038),
by Deputy Minister
2nd Dam: Shopping, by Private Account
3rd Dam: Impish, by Majestic Prince
O/B-My Meadowview Farm LLC (KY); T-H. Graham Motion;
J-Trevor McCarthy. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0,
$233,199. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.[bullet ad=”lanes-end-foaled-and-raised”][bullet ad=”kbif-g2g3″]2–Galileo's Song (Ire), 118, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Song to
Remember, by Storm Cat. ($475,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV). O-Dell
Ridge Farm LLC; B-Smythson (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. $20,000.[bullet ad=”vanmeter-oh-yeah”][bullet ad=”irt-shell”]3–Verbouwen, 116, f, 3, Kitten's Joy–Gone Overboard, by Gone
West. ($40,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $100,000 2yo '15 OBSAPR).
O-Michael E. Kisber & Sheep Pond Partners; B-John A.
Chandler (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $10,000.
Margins: NK, 2 1/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 1.90, 1.70, 3.30.[bullet ad=”bsw-crow-private-purchase”]Also Ran: Hidden Treat, Shiawassee, Winter, Miss Inclusive. Scratched: Thundering Sky.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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