Mineshaft Debutante Scores At Monmouth For St. Elias

Mineshaft | Lane's End

1st-MTH, $33,620, Msw, 7-8, 3yo/up, f/m, 1m 70y, 1:41.75, ft.
+PLEASANT MINE (f, 3, Mineshaft">Mineshaft–Pleasant Lyrics {SP}, by Pleasant Tap) was lukewarm on the tote at 19-5 in a five-horse field, but scored a professional debut win going two turns in this opener. Breaking about a length slowly, the $440,000 KEESEP buy pulled her way up to stalk a close second through a :23.79 quarter-mile. Drawing on even terms with Princess Dom (Canadien Frontier) passing a :47.67 half, the dark bay took over from that one in hand on the far turn and pulled away in the late stages under Paco Lopez to graduate at first asking by three lengths. Odds-on favorite Delay of Game (Bernardini) won a photo for the place. The winner was the most expensive Mineshaft yearling sold in 2014. Her stakes placed dam is a half-sister to GISW Swagger Jack (Smart Strike), as well as SW Grand Prayer (Grand Slam), the dam of MGSW Valid (Medaglia d'Oro) and GISW Malibu Prayer (Malibu Moon), and is a full to GSW Tap Dance. She is responsible for a yearling colt by Data Link and foaled a full-sister to the victress this term. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $20,520. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-St. Elias Stable; B-Catherine Parke & Oakbrook Farm (KY); T-Anthony R. Margotta, Jr.[bullet ad=”valkyre-stud-foaled-raised-sold”][bullet ad=”crupi-trained”]

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