R Betty Graybull
Our last and final offering of 2008 was a Holy Bull filly purchased privately at the May Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale. This gorgeous New York bred filly was rated very highly by our clocker/Agent. The daughter of the incomparable Holy Bull is bred to run all day. Big things were expected when she made her debut at Saratoga and Belmont Park and she did not disappoint us.
Betty current sports a record of 3-2-0-1 with over $153,000 in earnings. She's already won the prestigious NATC Futurity at Monmouth Park on September 27, 2008.
Above, another NY bred filly HIP #85 goes through
the ring and brings $220,000.
Clocker Gate (L) and trainer Alan Seewald compare notes at the sale.
The little tomboy, Betty, grew up quickly.
Even though all five of her rivals in the $200,000 Monmouth Park NATC Futurity had been sold for higher prices as yearlings or juveniles and two had higher Daily Racing Form Beyer figures, Fantasy Lane Stable's R Betty Graybull was favored at even-money, and she showed why. Emerging from dense fog in third place after a fairly quick 45.43 half-mile over Monmouth's sloppy sealed track, the May-foaled two-year-old filly stalked three-wide into the turn and finally overtook 3.40-to-1 second choice Kays and Jays right before the wire, scoring by a neck. R Betty Graybull and Kays and Jays were the two youngest starters in the event.
It was the day's second winning ride aboard a two-year-old filly for jockey Carlos Marquez Jr., who was R Betty Graybull's third rider in three starts and indicated prior confidence in the outcome: "She broke real sharp, and a few horses were going head-to-head for the early lead," Marquez recounted. "I didn't want to pull back, so I kept my ground, and a couple (of) horses backed off. I sat third around the turn, and she kicked in when I asked her in the lane."
Victory in the NATC (National Association of Two-Year-Old Consignors) Futurity -- for 2008 juvenile fillies that had been cataloged for sale in 2008 and whose consignors had paid a 2008 advertising fee -- increased R Betty Graybull's earnings to $153,200 in three starts. The gray/roan filly had placed third among nine in her August 17 debut at Saratoga while twice having to be steadied, and she came back three weeks later to score by 4-1/4 lengths at Belmont, after which trainer Alan Seewald had given her a half-mile Monmouth workout on September 20. Seewald implied he had skipped Belmont's seven-furlong Joseph A. Gimma Stakes for New York-bred juvenile fillies on September 21 to go into the NATC Futurity: "We had this race in mind for a while," explained Seewald. "We got her to break her maiden last out (September 7), and that was important. She's a New York-bred, and we skipped a New York stakes for this spot. She's a nice filly. We'll see how she comes out of this. The plan is the Maid of the Mist Stakes ($100,000-guaranteed, one-turn mile at Belmont, for New York-bred two-year-old fillies, on New York Showcase Day, Saturday, October 18) next."
A $37,000 purchase at Fasig-Tipton's 2007 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale who was "not sold" at $40,000 at the OBS March sale of two-year-olds seven months later, R Betty Graybull races for Fantasy Lane Stable -- an organization of racing partnerships managed by Robert Hutt of Manalapan, New Jersey.
Hutt also had won Monmouth's 2004 Handicapping Challenge for a first-place prize of $30,000. R Betty Graybull is the second named offspring and second state-bred winner bred by the Pegasus Farms, Inc. of Thomas Dushas of Rye, New York. The daughter of Eclipse Horse of the Year Holy Bull is out of Hey Darla, whose five winning half-siblings include four-time winner (three times on turf) Lipstick Traces ($143,117). Further back, this is the female family of 2000 Eclipse Champion Turf Female Perfect Sting ($2,202,042).
Both of the Monmouth Park NATC Futurity contests -- for fillies and for colts and geldings -- had strong New York breeding angles. The colt/gelding division immediately following R Betty Graybull's victory was won by Forty Thieves -- the first stakes winner from the first crop of New York-bred-and-based stallion Read the Footnotes. R Betty Graybull is the third New York-bred two-year-old winner of a 2008 black-type stakes outside state-bred company and is among nine juveniles bred in the Empire State that have finished in the top-three in open (to horses bred anywhere) black-type stakes competition this year.
R Betty Graybull and Rollers (above) are among 25 New York-bred winners of black-type stakes outside state-bred company in 2008, and the Monmouth Park NATC Futurity and Gallant Bob Handicap are the 28th and 29th open black-type events captured by New York-breds this year. Those 29 stakes victories have been scored at 17 tracks in nine U.S. states plus England and Canada. The winner of the previous year's Gallant Bob Handicap, Premium Wine (who is Grade 1-placed in 2008), had been the 17th New York-bred winner of a black-type stakes outside state-bred competition in 2007.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thieves Steals NATC Futurity
Forty Thieves captured the colt and gelding division of the NATC (National Association of Two-Year-Old Consignors) Futurity just after R Betty Graybull scored in the filly division Sept. 27 at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.
Forty Thieves Steals NATC Futurity
Date Posted: September 27, 2008
Last Updated: September 28, 2008
Forty Thieves captured the colt and gelding division of the NATC (National Association of Two-Year-Old Consignors) Futurity just after R Betty Graybull scored in the filly division Sept. 27 at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.
Ridden by Rafael Mojica Jr., Forty Thieves rolled to a 5 ½-length win, covering six furlongs over a sloppy main track in 1:09 4/5. The colt by Read the Footnotes returned $7.80, $3.60, and $3.20 and topped a $22.60 exacta. Valiancy, the 6-5 favorite in the field of six, paid $2.80 and $2.40. Pray for Action was another 1 ¼ lengths back in third and paid $3.20 to show.
Forty Thieves “did everything right,” said winning trainer Steve Klesaris. “He was very impressive and definitely has a bright future in front of him. We’ll take him back to the training center, evaluate him, and then go on from there.”
Forty Thieves scored for the second time in as many races while taking the $200,000 male division of the NATC Futurity, which is restricted to horses that have cataloged for sale during 2008 and whose consignors paid a 2008 advertising fund fee. He has banked $144,000 for owner Puglisi Racing.
Fantasy Lane Stable’s R Betty Graybull stalked the early pacesetters before powering past her rivals in deep stretch to post a neck victory in the $200,000 Fillies Division of the NATC Futurity.
Trained by Alan Seewald, R Betty Graybull, a daughter of Holy Bull, covered the six furlongs in the slop in 1:10 3/5 and returned $4, $2.60, and $2.10 as the odds-on choice. Kays and Jays, one of the early pacesetters, returned $3.60 and $2.20 and completed a $14.20 exacta. Trusty Temper, the other pacesetter, was another length and a half back in third, good for a $3 show mutuel.
“She broke real sharp,” said winning jockey C. H. Marquez Jr., “and a few horses were going head-to-head for the early head. I didn’t want to pull back so I kept my ground and a couple horses backed off. I sat third around the turn and she kicked in when I asked her in the lane.”
R Betty Graybull has now won two races in three starts with earnings of $153,200.
Monmouth Park will present its 100th and final live race card of the 2008 season on Sunday, Sept. 28. Gates open at 11:30 a.m. with first post set for 12:50 p.m. Closing Day is fan appreciation day with free grandstand and half-price clubhouse admission.
Monmouth Park NATC Futurity, MONMOUTH PARK, 9/27, Race 8, $200,000, STK, 2 yo, Fillies, Six Furlongs, 1:10.64, SY
1 - R Betty Graybull, 118, Holy Bull-Hey Darla, by Evansville Slew, $120,000, B-Pegasus Farms, Inc. (NY), O-Fantasy Lane Stable, T-Alan S. Seewald, J-Carlos H. Marquez, Jr., Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $153,200
2 - Kays and Jays, 118, Macho Uno-Lovin Spoonful, by Dixieland Band, $40,000, B-Milan Kosanovich (KY), O-Zayat Stables, LLC, T-William I. Mott, J-Joe Bravo, Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $49,600
3 - Trusty Temper, 118, Successful Appeal-Mumbo Jumbo, by Kingmambo, $20,000, B-Bee Zee, L.L.C. (KY), O-Mark H. Stanley, T-Ronny W. Werner, J-Jamie Theriot, Lifetime Record: 1-0-0-0, $0.
Margins: neck, 1 1/2, head. Others: Haley's Lolipop, Scintillation, Lady Mercedes.