Neolithic’s progeny earnings now pointing toward $3 million
Another highly successful several days for Neolithic resulted in four more winners, two stakes-placed runners and one third, and his progeny earnings have reached $2,030,097. He’s a cinch to reach his first $3 million season by year’s end.
NEW ROME – The 5-year-old Kentucky-bred is approaching $200,000 in earnings after an easy score in a $72,764 allowance test at Ellis Park. The mare bred by Suzanne Sackleh and Michael Masters went wire-to-wire in the race at one mile over the turf course, and her clocking of 1:32.46 is just seven-tenths of a second off the course record.
Adam Beschizza was in the saddle for the rocking-chair ride, with New Rome opening up a five-length lead in the stretch, then coasting home by 3 1/4 lengths. She paid $7.78 and earned a check for $30,354, increasing her lifetime bank account to $194,568 on a record of 7-2-1 in 16 starts. She received an Equibase ‘E’ speed figure of 101, best of her career.
KIP THE DISTANCE – Angel Rodriguez has the best of all worlds: he’s the breeder, owner and trainer of the 3-year-old filly who went wire-to-wire in a $30,000 claimer at Colonial Downs, and luckily he didn’t lose her. With Jose Lopez aboard in the 5 1/2-furlong test that was originally scheduled for the turf, Kip the Distance set a blazing pace – :22.31, :44.69 and :56.27 – and went on to win by two lengths in 1:02.61, just over one second off the track record. She paid $3.20 and Rodriguez collected a check for $21,000, bringing her career total to $163,670 on a record of 2-4-3 in 18 tries.
STAKES-PLACED – Camigol’s connections were the recipient of a gift when two scratches left a field of four in the Gr. II, $200,000 Saratoga Special. Under Jose Lezcano, the 2-year-old colt finished third at odds of 18-1, and the check for $24,000 boosted his earnings for three races to $70,200.
GREAT VENEZUELA – The 4-year-old filly kept her in-the-money record intact – she’s an awesome 8-4-2 in 14 starts after her runner-up finish in the $100,000 Incredible Revenge Stakes at Monmouth Park. At odds of 8/5, she lost by one length and collected $20,000, jumping her bank account to $355,120, with $176,920 coming in 2025.
BARBAZON BONANZA – After bringing home a second-place breeder’s award for Joe and Helen Barbazon in her first of two starts, Bayou Brigid struck big-time in outing No. 3, breaking her maiden in impressive style at Gulfstream Park with the Pleasant Acres owners receiving a healthy award based on the $70,000 purse.
In a race at a mile and 70 yards that had come off the turf, Luca Panici sent the $20,000 OBS April 2-year-old three wide into the stretch and Bayou Brigid went on to win by 2 1/2 lengths. She paid $13, and the $50,000 payoff jumped her earnings to $62,600.
NEOLITHICA – Another wire-to-wire victory, this one at Charles Town by the 4-year-old filly bred in Maryland by Maria M. Haire. A $30,000 Timonium October yearling, Neolithica earned her best Equibase ‘E’ speed figure, an 89, after scoring by 9 1/2 lengths in a $31,700 allowance test at 6 1/2 furlongs. Winner of four of seven efforts this year, she’s 8-2-1 in 20 career starts with earnings of $170,576 after adding her latest check for $18,936.