Untapable Continues to Prepare for BC Distaff

Around 7:45 a.m., Winchell Thoroughbreds’ champion Untapable worked five furlongs in 1:01.20 in her first timed move since she was second by a neck in the Oct. 4 Juddmonte Spinster (G1). Trained by Steve Asmussen, the 4-year-old Tapit filly is pointed to the $2 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) on Oct. 30.

Untapable worked in company with Gold Hawk, who started about a half-length in front. She passed the workmate, finishing 1½ lengths in front. Clockers caught her in fractions of :13, :25, :37.40, 1:01.20 and out in 1:14.80.

David Fiske, racing manager for Winchell Thoroughbreds, said Untapable has been training well at Keeneland and he was happy with her latest performance.

“I don’t think she had to do too much since she just ran in the Spinster,” he said. “She’s on schedule.”

Fiske said Untapable is expected to receive her final work for the Distaff next weekend. With 12 days before the race, expected to include Juddmonte Spinster winner Got Lucky and third-place finisher Yahilwa, he said the Distaff “looks wide open to me. We’ll see who gets the best post position, best trip, least amount of trouble.”

On Sunday morning, Asmussen also sent out Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) candidate Tapiture, a Grade 2 winner owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds, for a five-furlong work in 1:00.60. Clockers caught him in fractions of :12.60, :24.60, :37.40, 1:00.60 and out in 1:14.

Another Asmussen worker was Jerry Durant’s Grade 2 winner Holy Boss, who breezed five furlongs in :59.80 with fractions of :13, :24.40, :36.80, :59.80 and out in 1:13.20. He is to run in the $1.5 million TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1).

SARAH SIS CONTINUES STRING OF FIRSTS FOR TRAINER MASON

Trainer Ingrid Mason reported all was well Sunday morning with Joe Ragsdale’s Sarah Sis, the 17-1 upset winner ofSaturday’s Lexus Raven Run (G2).

“She is good this morning,” Mason said of Sarah Sis, who gave the trainer her first Keeneland victory last fall and her first Grade 2 victory yesterday. “This is the perfect time to give her 30 days off and then get her ready for Oaklawn.”

In addition to the victory by Sarah Sis, Mason also won Saturday’s fourth race with Happy to Go. Florent Geroux rode both winners as well as scoring in the eighth race on I’m Already Sexy for the second riding hat trick of the meet. Julien Leparoux had a three-win afternoon Oct. 14.

Mason could deliver another victory to Ragsdale before the meet ends Saturday, Oct. 24, with the 2-year-old filly Marquee Miss. After winning her debut in the Arlington-Washington Lassie on Polytrack at Arlington, Marquee Miss finished seventh in the opening-day Darley Alcibiades (G1) on an off track.

“I am looking at a mile and a sixteenth allowance here on the grass Saturday or the Rags to Riches (an $80,000 stakes at one mile on the dirt) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 1,” Mason said. “I am not sure what she likes best, but we sure know she doesn’t like the slop. I hope she’s a dirt horse.”

WORK TAB

Shadwell Turf Mile (G1) winner Grand Arch, expected in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), worked a half-mile in :51.60 on the main track after the renovation break. Owned by Jim and Susan Hill and trained by Brian Lynch, Grand Arch produced fractions of :12.40, :25.60 and galloped out in 1:05.40. …

Also working after the break was a quartet of runners trained by Wesley Ward. Wes Welker and Sol Kumin’s Undrafted (Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint-G1) and Silverton Hill’s Ruby Notion (Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf-G1) worked five furlongs in company in 1:00.20. Fractions were :13, :24.80, :37.40 and out six furlongs in 1:14.20.

Abdullah Saeed Almaddah’s Green Mask (Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint-G1) and Ten Broeck Farm’s Sunset Glow (Pin Oak Valley View-G3) worked five furlongs in company in :59.80. …

Three other fillies considered as probable starters in the Pin Oak Valley View, to be run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf on Saturday, Oct. 24, closing day of the Fall Meet, also worked.

William K. Warren Jr.’s Mrs McDougal worked a half-mile in :49 with fractions of :24.40 and an out-time of 1:02 for trainer Chad Brown. … Brereton Jones and Timothy Thornton’s Include Betty worked five furlongs in 1:02 with fractions of :37.40 and an out-time of 1:15 for trainer Tom Proctor. … Darrell and Sadie Brommer’s Prado’s Sweet Ride worked a half-mile in :47.60 with fractions of :23.20 and an out-time of 1:01.60 for trainer Chris Block. 

GALLOPING OUT

Trainer Arnaud Delacour said Buffalo Trace Franklin County winner Ageless is scheduled to return to his barn Monday from Hagyard Equine Medical Institute. The mare, owned by Lael Stables, sustained a deep cut below her left hock in the running of the race and has been at the clinic since the race Oct. 9.

“We will pre-enter (to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint) to keep our options open,” Delacour said. “(Running in the race) is highly unlikely unless a miracle happens, but I talked with the Breeders’ Cup people and if you can’t run for medical reasons, you get your money back.” …

Trainer Jeremy Noseda called an audible and opted not to work Frizette (G1) runner-up Nemoralia Sunday morning. “She just galloped this morning,” Noseda said. “I decided she didn’t need to go yet.”

Owned by the partnership of Terry Allan, James Lovat and Charles Pigram, Nemoralia will be pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) and Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), according to Noseda. …

Keeneland racing analyst Tom Leach interviews Jane Buchanan, racing manager for trainer Graham Motion, about Motion’s starters in today’s Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) – Kitten’s Point and Lady of Gold – and two of the trainer’s horses pointed at the Pin Oak Valley View (G3) on Saturday, closing day of the Fall Meet: Rainha Da Bateria and Tiger Ride.

SPOTLIGHT ON KEENELAND SALES GRADUATES 
WHO BECAME BREEDERS’ CUP WINNERS: LIFE’S MAGIC

On Oct. 30-31, Keeneland for the first time will host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which consists of 13 Grade 1 races worth $26 million in purses and awards. Through its world-famous sales, Keeneland has had a long connection to the Breeders’ Cup. A total of 82 Keeneland sales graduates have won 88 Breeders’ Cup races.

In the days leading up to this year’s Breeders’ Cup, prominent winners who sold at Keeneland will be profiled.

Life’s Magic (1985 Breeders’ Cup Distaff): One of a record 20 Breeders’ Cup winners trained by Racing Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, Eugene V. Klein’s Life’s Magic closed her career with a

6¼-length victory over stablemate Lady’s Secret in the 1985 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Aqueduct and received the Eclipse Award as the year’s champion older mare. During her career, the daughter of Cox’s Ridge-Fire Water, by Tom Rolfe, earned $2,255,218 while winning eight of 32 races and earning a championship at three. She was first, second, third or fourth in 25 Grade 1 races.

Life’s Magic was bred in Kentucky by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Parrish and David C. Parrish II and sold to Lukas for $310,000 at Keeneland’s 1982 September Yearling Sale. After her racing career, Life’s Magic sold at three editions of Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale: for $5.4 million in 1986 while in foal to Mr. Prospector, for $310,000 in 1997 while in foal to Unbridled and for $75,000 in 2001 while in foal to Thunder Gulch.

Dam of 14 foals, with seven winners from nine starters, Life’s Magic was 26 when she died Aug. 21, 2007, at Trackside Farm in Versailles, Ky.

Source: Keeneland Association