By Andrea Branchini
2nd-Saratoga, $88,000, (S), Msw, 8-26, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:11.23, sy, 3/4 length.
KANT HURRY LOVE (f, 3, Kantharos–She's All Love, by Langfuhr) O-Ken Wheeler, Jr.; B-Dr. John M & Laura G McDermott (NY); T-Christophe Clement.
The name of recent Saratoga winning filly KANT HURRY LOVE is simply magic wordplay: a clever double alliteration with the name of the sire KANTHAROS and the title of the glorious 1966 hit of Diana Ross and the Supremes “You Can't Hurry Love”. The lyrics of the song are so overflowing with wisdom that even a possible long-shot connection with world champion philosopher Immanuel Kant does not seem out of place.
Aboukir Bay, f, 3, Lord Nelson–Fairy Star (Aus) (SP-Aus), by More Than Ready. Kentucky Downs, 9-3, 6 1/2fT, 1:16.93. Lifetime Record: 8-1-4-0, $127,213. B-Spendthrift Farm (KY). *$30,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; $375,000 2yo '21 OBSAPR.
The stallion LORD NELSON has already given us winner TRAGALGAR, after Horatio Nelson's greatest and final victory, and now we have Kentucky Downs-winning 3-year-old filly ABOUKIR BAY, named after the second greatest triumph of the British Admiral: the 1798 destruction of Napoleon's fleet near the delta of the Nile. The naval defeat left the French general in Egypt (and his army) with the Napoleonic equivalent of a flight cancellation problem, greatly affecting his Middle East adventure.
Dakota Territory, g, 3, Stroll–Sakakawea (MSW, $371,850), by Rossini. Prairie Meadows, 9-3, (S), 5 1/2f, 1:06.13. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $25,146. B-Black Oak Farm (IA). *1ST-TIME STARTER.
It is fitting and geographically consistent that a horse baptized DAKOTA TERRITORY and out of a mare named SAKAKAWEA is a winner at Prairie Meadows in Iowa. The “Sakakawea” connection with the great Northern plains could be via the name of an Indian female guide in the 1804-1806 Lewis-Clark expedition (spelling can be different), or a lake and park (with that exact spelling) in North Dakota, in a location included in the long-lasting, pre-statehood Dakota Territory (1861-1889) – America's own ancient land of the sheltering sky.
TERESA GAROFALO MEMORIAL S., $100,000, Parx Racing, 8-22, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10.93, ft. 1–REMAIN ANONYMOUS, 123, m, 5, Tapiture–Secret Witness, by Tiznow. O-Sanford J. Goldfarb; B-Horseshoe Valley Equine Center, LLC (PA); T-Robert N. Falcone, Jr.; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.
That a secret witness remains anonymous makes an awful lot of sense, legally and otherwise. On the other hand, the mare REMAIN ANONYMOUS, who is out of SECRET WITNESS, was actually fully discovered in plain daylight when “charging six deep in the early stretch, pouring it on for a no-doubt victory”, as the record shows–in a stakes race at Parx Racing on 8-22. Happy disclosure.
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