Siena Farm and WinStar Farm's 'TDN Rising Star' World Record (Gun Runner), third last out in the Maxfield Stakes at Churchill Downs June 30, received a much more aggressive ride from Flavien Prat Friday and ran a compact–but talented–field off their feet in the GII Amsterdam Stakes at the Spa.
Off at odds of 6-1 while adding blinkers, the bay was on the engine from his rail draw and sizzled through fractions of :21.56 and :44.64. He kicked for home as the one to catch and kept on motoring down the lane to defeat heavily favored Jefferson Street (Street Sense), a runaway optional claiming winner over track and trip during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, by 6 3/4 lengths. Valentine Candy (Justify), a four-time stakes winner at the 2023-24 Oaklawn Park stand, was third.
World Record earned his 'Rising Star' badge with a powerful 6 1/4-length wire-to-wire maiden victory at second asking in Louisville May 27. World Record was defeated by 2 3/4 lengths after tracking early from fourth in the Maxfield. He has drawn the rail now for three straight races.
“He kind of gave him the rein and the horse didn't get put on the engine and he got beat,” winning trainer Rodolphe Brisset said of World Record's effort last time in the Maxfield. “I am not saying it was Flavien's fault, but the horse did not run the way we were thinking he was going to run.”
Brisset continued, “So, the plan today was to get out there and make sure we make it. Obviously, the [21.56 opening quarter] if its a six furlong, yes, six and half, you have to worry about the last sixteenth, but he hung on pretty good.”
As for World Record contesting the seven-furlong GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Aug. 24, Brisset said “Hopefully, we don't draw the rail, but seven [furlongs] shouldn't be an issue. He won going seven, you can clear the field, you don't have to go that fast. The 6 1/2 [furlongs] can be tricky, you've got to be able to put up those fractions like you're going six and hold up like you're a seven-furlong horse, he did that today.”
Pedigree Notes:
World Record, a $410,000 KEENOV weanling purchase, becomes the 24th graded/group winner worldwide for leading young sire Gun Runner, who is also responsible for 2022 Amsterdam winner and MGISW Gunite.
Marwa, a maiden of four starts racing in her native land, brought $180,000 from Magna Carta Bloodstock at the 2018 KEENOV sale.
She is also responsible for the unraced 2-year-old filly Everloving (Violence) (purchased for $80,000 by Joel Politi as a KEESEP yearling) and a yearling filly by Maxfield. She was bred to Tacitus for 2025.
Friday, Saratoga
AMSTERDAM S.-GII, $194,000, Saratoga, 7-26, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:16.20, ft.
1–WORLD RECORD, 118, c, 3, by Gun Runner
1st Dam: Marwa (GB), by Exceed And Excel (Aus)
2nd Dam: La Cucina (Ire), by Last Tycoon (Ire)
3rd Dam: Fandangerina, by Grey Dawn II
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. 'TDN Rising Star'. ($410,000 Wlg '21 KEENOV). O-Siena Farm LLC and WinStar Farm LLC; B-Runnymede Farm LLC, Falguieres Bloodstock, Gestut Zur Kuste AG, et (KY); T-Rodolphe Brisset; J-Flavien Prat. $110,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-2, $205,750. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Jefferson Street, 118, c, 3, Street Sense–Apiary, by Bernardini. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-William I. Mott. $40,000.
3–Valentine Candy, 122, c, 3, Justify–Taste Like Candy, by Candy Ride (Arg). 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($250,000 Ylg '22 FTKOCT). O-L. William Heiligbrodt, Corinne Heiligbrodt, Jackpot Farm, Whispering Oaks Farm LLC and Coteau Grove Farms; B-Pine Creek LP (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $24,000.
Margins: 6 3/4, 7 1/4, 3/4. Odds: 6.30, 0.85, 4.70.
Also Ran: Donegal Momentum, Pure Force.
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World Record (6-1) doesn't set one in GII Amsterdam but the 3-year-old runs pretty darned good, winning by 6 3/4 lengths for Flavien Prat and @BrissetRodolphe. Owned by @WinStarFarm and @SienaFarmKY. 1-4-5-2 pic.twitter.com/FVaMmHfdXU
— Tim Wilkin (@tjwilkin) July 26, 2024
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