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EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH Becomes Dark Hollow Farm's Second Maryland Million Classic Winner
Sylvia E. Heft’s EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH won just as an odds-on favorite should, running down the speed and bounding away to victory in the $150,000 Classic, the feature race contested under rainy conditions on Jim McKay Maryland Million day at Laurel Park.
EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH was bred in partnership with H. Graham Motion's Herringswell Stables and is out of the currently retired mare TOO FAST TO CATCH.
The Maryland Million is the most important racing day at Laurel Park with 11 races for runners sired by Maryland-based stallions for combined purses totaling $1.05 million. The 26th annual event drew a crowd of 20,907 Saturday afternoon. Attendance figures have exceeded 20,000 on twenty-two occasions.
Jockey Sheldon Russell was at the controls as yet another Not For Love offspring captured yet another race on Maryland’s Day at the Races. It was also the second year in a row that Russell had won the Classic. Last year he guided Regal Solo to victory in the Million’s signature race.
“The key is to get him to relax,” said Russell. “Mud doesn’t bother him because he’s run well on it before. I was a little concerned because the speed horse didn’t break, but it worked out. I got him to switch off and then he came back running. I was lucky that way. Since they’ve taken the blinkers off of him he’s been very hard to beat.”
Tim Keefe trains EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH, who has won seven times at Laurel including the Japan Racing Association Stakes in his previous start.
“This was our ‘A’ race,” said Keefe. “He’s been training like a good horse. We’ve worked hard on getting him to track the speed and today that turned out perfect. The five post didn’t hurt us either. He really finished down the lane. This horse loves Laurel Park. The older gets the better he’s become.”
Jorge Chavez sent Regal Warrior out to an uncontested lead in the 1-1/8th mile test, leading by as much as six lengths before Eighttofasttocatch began to close in on his target. Regal Warrior surrendered the lead, Eighttofasttocatch moved to the fore and drifted out before being straightened away to win by 1-3/4 lengths. Cactus Charlie finished second and Not Abroad was third.
EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH was bred in partnership with H. Graham Motion's Herringswell Stables and is out of the currently retired mare TOO FAST TO CATCH. The Maryland Million is the most important racing day at Laurel Park with 11 races for runners sired by Maryland-based stallions for combined purses totaling $1.05 million. The 26th annual event drew a crowd of 20,907 Saturday afternoon. Attendance figures have exceeded 20,000 on twenty-two occasions. Jockey Sheldon Russell was at the controls as yet another Not For Love offspring captured yet another race on Maryland’s Day at the Races. It was also the second year in a row that Russell had won the Classic. Last year he guided Regal Solo to victory in the Million’s signature race. “The key is to get him to relax,” said Russell. “Mud doesn’t bother him because he’s run well on it before. I was a little concerned because the speed horse didn’t break, but it worked out. I got him to switch off and then he came back running. I was lucky that way. Since they’ve taken the blinkers off of him he’s been very hard to beat.” Poseidon's Warrior Runs Away With The $100,000 East Hanover Stakes
![]() Bred by Dark Hollow Farm in partnership with William Paca Beatson, POSEIDON'S WARRIOR was making his first start for his new connections, Swilcan Stable, LLC This vicotry is the sharp looking Speighstown colt's second stakes score after capturing Monmouth Park's $200,000 NATC Futurity Stakes as a two-year-old. His lifetime record in 9 career starts includes: 4 (2) wins, 1 (1) second and 1 (1) third. The powerful dark bay is a half-brother to Maryland Million Classic winner PLAY BINGO ($455,240), QUICK N SMART ($156,820) as well as multiple stakes placed RHYTHMN MASTER ($279,370). EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH Dominates At Laurel Park
EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH lived up to his name with a dominating 9 3/4-length score in the one-mile feature at Laurel Park on Feb. 16. The chestnut son of Not For Love out of TOO FAST TO CATCH, by Nice Catch, muscled his wayto the front after three-quarters of a mile and "quickly widened in mid stretch" to gain his fifth career victory and increase his earnings to $144,940. DREAM- In Sharper Focus
Excerpted From 2/19/11 Thoroughbred Daily News- Dream is allowing her connections to do just that after two impressive victories to open her career. The filly is owned by her breeders, Dark Hollow Farm's JoAnn and David Hayden, Arnold Davidov, Alice Wolf, Dorsey Brown and David Schwaber, and races under the banner Dark Hollow Racing Partnership. The group purchased the three-year-old's dam Dream Out Loud (Stravinsky) for $315,000 at the 2006 Keeneland November Sale. The mare, then five, was carrying her first foal, a colt by Gone West who later would be sold as a yearling for $100,000 at the '08 September Sale. "She was just a beautiful physical," David Hayden said yesterday. "She was a very pretty, elegant mare, and she had enough pedigree for us." Dream Out Loud, from the extended family of the Grade I-winning grass horses Damister (Mr. Prospector) and Selous Scout (Effervescing), is a half-sister to another accomplished turf runner in English highweight and millionaire Magistretti (Diesis {GB}), whose victories included the GI Man o'War S. at Belmont. When it came time to picking Dream Out Loud's second mate, the partners chose Malibu Moon, a fitting choice given that the son of A.P. Indy got his start in Maryland, where Dark Hollow calls home. "I just love him as a stallion," said David. "I didn't breed to him when he stood here for $3,500, but I'm happy to breed to him now at his current fee [of $60,000]." Bluegrass Chatter Thrills at Hollywood Park
By leading sire BLUEGRASS CAT out of the former Dark Hollow Farm / Kildare Investments mare CHATTER CHATTER, BLUEGRASS CHATTER covered the 1 1/16 miles in 1:45.70 and paid $9.80 on her photo finish. Trained by top west coast conditioner Jerry Hollendorfer, BLUEGRASS CHATTER was bred by Dark Hollow Farm and Kildare Investments and is currently owned by a three-way partnership amongst Dark Hollow, Hollendorfer as well as long-time client Will DeBurgh. |
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