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Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said his two Derby starters came back in good order and that Scrimshaw would point toward the Preakness with the Belmont a possibility for Ten Cents A Shine.
"I think we will go on with Scrimshaw and train here and then go in the Wednesday before the race like we have done for 22 years," Lukas said. "The other horse, I liked his race and I get five weeks to do some more work with him."
Was Lukas surprised by the race's outcome?
"It was no surprise," Lukas said. "If Funny Cide gets a better trip in the Wood Memorial, he might have won that. But yesterday was a well-run race for a field that size. Everybody had a chance to lay it down and run."
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4.28.2003 - Scrimshaw Video Workout
Scrimshaw News: Coolmore Lexington Offers Last Chance For Several Derby Hopefuls
Scrimshaw News: Lexington A Stage For Late Derby Players To Emerge
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Won the Grade II Coolmore Lexington Stakes by 3 lengths on Apr. 19
Finished third, beaten 6 1/2 lengths by Domestic Dispute, in the Grade II Santa Catalina Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 15 |
Won a 6 furlong allowance race at Santa Anita on Dec. 29 by a head in 1:08 1/5
Broke his maiden at first-asking by 2 lengths on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita |
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Pedigree Analysis By: John Gaver III |
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SCRIMSHAW won the Lexington stakes and immediately commissioned two weeks of comparisons to Charismatic and Proud Citizen, who both parlayed good Lexington runs into Derby paychecks for D. Wayne Lukas. Not sure this one is the same kind as he has not trained as well as either of those runners since returning to home base in Louisville. 99 Beyer Speed Figure from the Lexington is just average for this field but his top number of 104 fits fairly well, though it is worth noting that he earned it in a one-turn race. Talented young rider Cornelio Velasquez has successfully infiltrated one of the toughest jockey colonies in the world and will do everything he can for this horse. Sire Gulch is not known for stamina but he did sire a Derby winner for Lukas in Thunder Gulch and the angles for that barn are certainly stacking up. Broodmare sire Sham will help with the distance and he would have won many Derbys but was unfortunate to be a 3-year-old of 1973 and thus the unlucky classmate of Secretariat. Think this horse is a nice prospect on down the line for wonderful owners Bob and Beverly Lewis but also think he will be overbet off the Lukas/Lexington/Gulch angles. Willing to play against despite those patterns of success. |
Born: April 2, 2000
Dosage Index: 3.33
Coolmore Lexington Stakes (GII) winner Scrimshaw is by the champion Gulch, an earner of over $3 million at the races, and a sire of 47 stakes winners including the champions Nayef and Thunder Gulch, winner of the 1995 Kentucky Derby (GI) and nearly $3 million; Eagle Cafe, who sports career earnings of neary $4 million; Brave Tender, an earner of nearly $2.5 million; Grade I Super Derby winner and millionaire Wallenda and Grade II stakes winner Esteemed Friend. Scrimshaw is out of the Sham mare Rogue Girl, who has three foals that have made it to the races, all of which have won including Srcimshaw's half-sister Classic Ingrid, who was second in the restricted La Prevoyante Stakes in Canada. There is plenty of quality black-type in Scrimshaw's tail female line, as he traces back to the Grade II stakes winner Rogues Walk in his second dam and to the graded stakes winners Apolda, Ganges, Bedanken, Future Storm, Smooth Jazz and the Group placed stakes winners Sea Sands, Sand Falcon and Lucky Lindy in his fourth dam. As a broodmare sire, Sham, who was runner-up to Secretariat in all three legs of the 1973 Triple Crown, is the sire of 217 producing daughters and 62 stakes winners including the millionaires Eishin Washington, Best Tie Up (Jpn) and Defensive Play in addition to the stakes winners Owsley, Dixie Brass, On The Edge, Sham Say, Charmonnier, Odyle and Queen's Gray Bee. Scrimshaw is a son of Gulch, the sire of 1995 Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch (also conditioned by D. Wayne Lukas), and he has a classy distaff family peppered with sprint and route stakes winners. He's inbred (5x5) to Nasrullah, Champion 2yo colt in England and the sire of 15 champions including the likes of Bold Ruler, Jaipur, Nashua, Noor and Never Bend. Based on that assessment, the 10-furlong distance of the Kentucky Derby should be within this colt's limitations.
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