{"id":4792,"date":"2015-05-13T08:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:24:04","slug":"rested-commissioner-takes-aim-at-pimlico-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/rested-commissioner-takes-aim-at-pimlico-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Rested Commissioner Takes Aim at Pimlico Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

BALTIMORE<\/b> \u2013 Seven weeks after delivering a career-best performance to win his first graded stakes, WinStar Farm\u2019s Commissioner can make it two in a row in Friday\u2019s $300,000 Sagamore Racing Pimlico Special (G3).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 45th<\/sup> running of the 1 3\/16-mile Special is one of seven stakes, four of them graded, on a spectacular 14-race Black-Eyed Susan Day program at Pimlico Race Course that also includes the Ultimate Girls Day Out<\/i>, a celebration of the spirit and strength of women.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Trained by seven-time Eclipse Award-winner Todd Pletcher, who won his first Special last year with Revolutionary, Commissioner posted a Beyer Speed Figure of 109 in winning the Skip Away (G3) by a neck over Sr. Quisqueyano March 28 at Gulfstream Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also run at 1 3\/16 miles, the Skip Away made Commissioner the only horse of 10 in the Special field with a victory at the distance. Of the six others to have tried it only Cat Burglar, third in last year\u2019s race, has hit the board.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe horse looks super, he\u2019s training well and the mile and three-sixteenths suits him well. Hopefully everything is pointing in the right direction,\u201d Pletcher said. \u201cWe always felt the Pimlico Special was going to be our next stop. It just seemed to make sense from a timing perspective, and there wasn\u2019t enough time to run in something in between. We like the distance for him, and we\u2019ve been pointing for this since the Skip Away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner was on the Triple Crown trail last year, sandwiching a third in the Sunland Derby (G3) between sixth-place finishes in the Fountain of Youth (G2) and Arkansas Derby (G1). Pletcher skipped the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1) to point for the 1 \u00bd-mile Belmont Stakes (G1), in which the 4-year-old A.P. Indy colt nearly stole the race on the front end only to be caught at the wire by Tonalist, losing by a head at odds of 28-1.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Commissioner_PM__16_0214-684x471\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe always felt like being a son of A.P. Indy that the Belmont was the Classic that he was best designed for,\u201d Pletcher said. \u201cWe decided on the Peter Pan as a prep and he ran well in there. That kind of set him up for the Belmont, and we almost pulled it off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Following the race, Commissioner needed surgery to remove an ankle chip and did not race again until Jan. 10, finishing third by a neck in a 1 1\/16-mile optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream Park. A lackluster effort in the Donn Handicap (G1) was followed by his Skip Away score.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI think he\u2019s fully recuperated and has come back, and like you would expect from most A.P. Indys, he seems to be getting better and better as he gets older,\u201d Pletcher said. \u201cHopefully he continues to improve throughout the summer and fall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner will break from outside post 10, carrying Javier Castellano and top weight of 120 pounds. The two-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey was up in the Skip Away and has never been worse than third in four tries on the bay colt, including the 2014 Belmont.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI think [the post] is OK. We\u2019ll just try to get some position away from there,\u201d Pletcher said. \u201cHe\u2019s a horse that generally is pretty good away from the gate and hopefully we can get into position around the first turn without losing too much ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shrinking Violet, Emotional Kitten Breeze for Saturday Stakes<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trainer Wesley Ward breezed a pair of horses Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs in preparation for starts on Saturday\u2019s undercard for the Preakness Stakes.\"Shrinking-Violet-a3-72-684x488\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Ward-owned Shrinking Violet went five furlongs over the turf course in 1:05.20, while Ken and Sarah Ramsey\u2019s Emotional Kitten covered the same distance in 1:05.40.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shrinking Violet will return from a four-month layoff in the $100,000 The Very One for filly and mare sprinters 3 and up, while Emotional Kitten is headed to the $150,000 Gallorette (G3) for females three and over at 1 1\/16 miles. Both races will be contested over the Pimlico turf.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ward, reached at his home base of Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla., said he got glowing reports on his workers in Kentucky.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShrinking Violet looked very good, as well as Emotional Kitten,\u201d Ward said. \u201cThey\u2019re all set and doing great. We\u2019re very excited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Very One will be Shrinking Violet\u2019s first start since winning the 6 \u00bd-furlong Monrovia (G2) Jan. 4 on the downhill turf course at Santa Anita. She emerged from the race with a shoulder issue that took time to heal, but the 5-year-old chestnut daughter of Congaree has been training well in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI kind of had to do nothing with her for a while, brought her back slow and breezed her easy, but she still wasn\u2019t quite right so I gave her another month off,\u201d Ward said. \u201cNow she\u2019s just breathing fire again and feeling her oats, so we\u2019re looking for a big effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ward felt 2013 Mrs. Revere (G2) winner Emotional Kitten was \u201cimmensely\u201d compromised by soft turf in her last start, where she was never a threat in finishing sixth as the favorite in a one-mile allowance April 9 at Keeneland.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s always kind of liked her feet rattling underneath her,\u201d Ward said. \u201cThat race came up really, really salty. There were a lot of nice stakes horses in the race. To go on a surface that she just didn\u2019t prefer, I probably should have come out of the race and looked for another spot, but I went ahead with it and suffered the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also on Saturday, City of Vengeance will run for Ward in the $100,000 Chick Lang for 3-year-old sprinters going six furlongs on the main track.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allaire DuPont (G3) Contender Queen\u2019s Blade a World Traveler<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Queen\u2019s Blade may not win the $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes (G3) on Friday;\u00a0in fact, Pimlico-based trainer Valora Testerman would be over the moon if she did. But where the 4-year-old filly finishes really isn\u2019t the point.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The daughter of Menifee, who finished second in the 1999 Kentucky Derby and Preakness before starting his breeding career in South Korea, Queen\u2019s Blade is a big, strong and successful filly from the Republic of Korea.\u00a0She finds herself in Baltimore as a way to help the Korean Racing Association establish a guideline for a numerical speed-figure program that will correspond to those in the United States and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a tall order for Queen\u2019s Blade, who is only here for three races and had to learn a new \u201clanguage\u201d and new operating procedure before she could even go on the race track.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI think she did speak a different language when she first arrived,\u201d Testerman said. The filly has since discovered a fondness for peppermints, adjusted to walking with a pony and no longer shies away from the noise of a racetrack.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt took her awhile to adjust,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen she first got here we couldn\u2019t even bring her out of the barn without a rider because every sound spooked her. And it\u2019s hard just getting her a race she\u2019s qualified for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The reason is based on Queen\u2019s Blade success at home. She won seven of her 16 starts in Korea, including the Korean Derby (G1) against males and the Korean Oaks (G1), and earned nearly a million dollars.\u00a0She\u2019s also operating on time restrictions, having arrived in the midst of Maryland\u2019s particularly cold, snowy and disruptive winter with the directive to run in three races prior to returning to Korea\u00a0June 23.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0None of this is new to Testerman, who has been working with Vivace Stable owner Raul Riech, who has been sending her Korean horses for several years. But the job doesn\u2019t get easier.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe question going into this race is: Can she run as fast as our horses do? She\u2019s a big girl, but she breezed well\u00a0on Saturday so we\u2019ll see,\u201d Testerman said. \u201cI ran her in the Primonetta Stakes here at Pimlico. It was for sprinters and she\u2019s not a sprinter, but I had to get her a race.\u00a0I asked [Maryland racing secretary] Georganne [Hale] to write a race for her and she did, but no one else entered, so it didn\u2019t go. The only races she can run in are stakes because she\u2019s won so much and earned so much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As a result, Queen\u2019s Blade finds herself in the 1 1\/8-mile DuPont.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019d like her to be going in something easier to get her started,\u201d Testerman said. \u201cStakes are hard and this is a really strong field. But I know she\u2019s a distance runner. If she\u2019s relaxed and runs her race, we\u2019ll keep our fingers crossed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maturing Fortune Pearl Up for Rematch with Stopchargingmaria in DuPont<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Trainer Graham Motion is looking forward to another test for his 4-year-old filly Fortune Pearl against hard-charging Todd Pletcher trainee Stopchargingmaria in the DuPont.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s had enough time [to recover] since her last win at Keeneland,\u201d Motion said. \u201cAnd she was very competitive against Todd\u2019s horse last summer.\u00a0\u00a0I like to think my filly has improved since then.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A year ago, the two horses met at Pimlico in the Black-Eyed Susan (G2), where Stopchargingmaria won and Fortune Pearl was third. But Fortune Pearl was slow to grow into form,which was not unexpected, Motion said, given her sire, Mineshaft, also developed later in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThat stallion wasn\u2019t precocious in his youth,\u201d Motion said. \u201cHe got better as he got older and she\u2019s gotten better as she\u2019s matured, too.\u00a0She showed very little as a 2-year-old and I ran her in a claiming race. Thank goodness no one claimed her or I\u2019d look pretty foolish right now, with someone else having won the Delaware Oaks with her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over the last year, Fortune Pearl has won three of her last five starts, including the Delaware Oaks (G2).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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