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Photo By: Adam Coglianese |
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Recent Developments |
Under new jockey Patrick Valenzuela, Mayakovsky worked four furlongs in :48.20 "breezing" on April 2 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California in what was the colt's final tune-up for the April 6 Santa Anita Derby (GI). "I think he worked good," trainer Patrick Biancone told the Santa Anita Stable Notes team after the move. "The horse is ready and it was just to make him meet Pat [Valenzuela] and Pat meet him (the Santa Anita Derby will be Valenzuela's first ride aboard Mayakovsky, who has been ridden in all three of his races by Edgar Prado). Pat did exactly what I said. I said 'I want you to go :22 and something the first quarter and :23 and something the second quarter,' just very easily. I guess he [Valenzuela] eats a stopwatch every morning for breakfast, because he did exactly what I said." "Only on the gallop-out did he miss," Biancone said facetiously. "I said to gallop out in :12 and a half, and he galloped out in :12 and four. Actually, it was perfect." When asked about the pace scenario and the likelihood that Mayakovsky would be on the lead in the Santa Anita Derby, Biancone said: "This is Pat's decision. That is why we wanted a top jockey. Any trainer would want a top jockey for this kind of race. My job (as a trainer) is finished when I saddle the horse. We bring the horse (to the race) as ready as possible, and from there, we let the jockey do his job." |
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As A 3-Year Old |
Won the Gotham Stakes (GIII) by 3 3/4-lengths on Mar. 17 at Aqueduct in wire-to-wire fashion over Saarland, covering the race's one-mile distance in 1:34 4/5
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As A 2-Year Old |
Finished second to Came Home in the Hopeful Stakes (GI) in his second career start
Broke a 55-year-old track record at Saratoga covering 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:03 1/5 in his career debut
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Derby Starter Anlysis By: Steve Fugitte |
Coming Derby Week... |
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Pedigree Anlysis By: John Gaver III |
Dosage Index: 1.40; Born: March 21, 1999
Named after the Russian Revolutionary romantic poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the equine Mayakovsky is by the young sire Matty G, a sire of just two crops to date. Like Mayakovsky, Matty G was a very precocious racehorse for trainer Ron McAnally, as he won the Hollywood Futurity (GI) as a juvenile but was a lackluster 17th in the 1996 Kentucky Derby as a sophomore. A son of Capote and a grandson of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, Matty G is the sire of one stakes winner to date, Little Billy, but does have the graded stakes-placed performers Mayakovsky and Divine Angel. Matty G is out of the Raise A Man mare Joy to Raise, who was minor stakes placed as a racehorse, and a representative of the Raise A Native sire line, traditionally a source of speed in equine bloodlines. Raise A Man is the sire of 107 producing daughters to date with 11 stakes winners to his credit including Lost pan, Raise the Prize and Poker Chip (GB). The book is still out on the young sire Matty G, who was by Capote, another sire who tends to throw precocious get that can be privy to soundness problems, but he is a great-grandson of a Triple Crown winner, definitely a source of dirt stamina. Additionally, Matty G's dam is Star Gem, who hails from the the family of Pia Star and Star of Cozzene, a good source of turf stamina. Maykovsky is an example of a stamina-on-speed cross, or nick; the staying power he'll need to get home in front on Derby Day will come from his top line, or sire line.
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