{"id":10243,"date":"2012-06-01T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T08:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=10243"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=10243","title":{"rendered":"Union Jack Flyer Featured In Gr. 2 Golfer’s Wager"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golfer’s Wager<\/STRONG><\/P>


Grade II<\/STRONG><\/P>


Distance:<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0 One mile and one sixteenth, Or 8.5 Furlongs, Or 1,700 Metres
Surface:<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0 Fast Dirt
Purse:<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0 $300,000 ($180,000 To The Winner)
Conditions:\u00a0 <\/STRONG>\u00a0Fillies and Mares, 3 Years Old and Up<\/P>

Stakes Record Time:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 1:41 2\/5 (Twice)<\/P>

(2011) \u00a0Horse: <\/STRONG>\u00a0Artemis And Apollo (IRE)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 Super Stables (2tohold)<\/P>

(2009)\u00a0 Horse:<\/STRONG> \u00a0Classically Styled (KY)\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 At The Wire Thoroughbreds (chorwon)<\/P>

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( 1 ) \u00a0FRINGE BENEFITS \u00a0(KY)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/STRONG>\u00a0(10 3-0-3, $89,460)<\/P>

4 YO Brown Filly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Odds:<\/STRONG> 17\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:\u00a0 <\/STRONG>\u00a0MTK and GALLOPLAZ SIM Joint Venture<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 106\u00a0\u00a0 (04\/21\/12)<\/P>

Fringe Benefits is a very lightly raced daughter of Kingmambo out of the A.P. Indy mare The Golden Goose. The four year old will be seeing her first graded stakes action ever, and she picked a tough spot to do it in. With the likes of Union Jack Flyer in here, she\u2019s going to throw her hat in against one of the best older mares in the game. Fringe Benefits has only 10 career starts, but last time out she popped a career-high 106 speed figure in a 9 furlong allowance in Portugal. In fact, this the first time that Fringe Benefits is stepping foot on North American soil after having done all her racing overseas. She\u2019s got some really blue blood flowing through those veins of hers, that much is certain. Her dam had A.P. Indy, Alydar and Bold Ruler blood in her veins, and when you throw Kingmambo in there as her sire, it really doesn\u2019t get much better than that. Distance is no problem for this one, and she comes in here really well rested, not having raced since April 21. Can she pick off the likes of some of the bigger graded winners here? That much remains to be seen, but this is probably a 4 year old you\u2019re going to hear a lot about in the future.<\/P>

( 2 )\u00a0 GOLD PAN \u00a0(JPN)<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (26 12-8-2, $337,860)<\/P>

4 YO Chestnut Filly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Odds:<\/STRONG> 5\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG> Nikkin Stables<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure: <\/STRONG>\u00a0108\u00a0 \u00a0(03\/10\/12)<\/P>

The Japanese-bred Gold Pan is another one here who\u2019s seeing her first graded stakes action. It looks like she was claimed for $40,000 way back in August of last year, and she\u2018s done nothing but win or finish top three for her new connections. She\u2019s a scratch-bred daughter of Conduit, with Mr. Prospector and Northern Dancer in her pedigree. Since she was claimed, she has been to the races 15 times for Nikkin Stables, and she\u2019s won 8 times. She\u2019s only been in stakes company once, and that was in the 8-furlong Tete Grand End Dirt Filly Mile in Hong Kong, where she got up big on the field early and held on for an easy win in November of 2011. She hasn\u2019t been in stakes company since then, but she\u2019s been doing superbly in allowance company for Nikkin Stables. In those 15 starts for her new connections, she\u2019s popped triple digit speed figures 10 times, and she looks like she\u2019s ready to step up into graded company this weekend in Ontario. She\u2019s 5\/1 in this spot, and she\u2019s got a ton of early speed. Winner of four of her last six races, look for Gold Pan on the lead here early, and she just might stay there for a while.<\/P>

( 3 ) \u00a0PICKIN\u2019 WINNERS \u00a0(KY)<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (38 12-6-5,\u00a0 $511,333)<\/P>

7 YO Brown Mare\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Odds:<\/STRONG> 3\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG> Denovo Stables<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 110\u00a0 \u00a0(12\/24\/11, 01\/31\/09)<\/P>

Pickin\u2018 Winners was on a five-race win streak that included three graded stakes wins. She was on a major league roll before her last two starts. The seven-year-old scratch-bred daughter of Fusaichi Pegasus ran into a buzz saw two starts back in the Grade 1 Santa Marina Handicap in California, where she finished 11th. That start came off quite a layoff, so toss that one. She fared much better last time out, when she finished fifth in the Grade 2 Davey Jones Handicap in Florida. She was beaten only 1 \u00be lengths by the winner there, Wild Henny, but what is more important is that Pickin\u2019 Winners got back into the triple digit speed figure column there (107). She\u2019s 3\/1 here, second favorite behind the mighty Union Jack Flyer, who\u2019s 8\/5, according to the morning line odds makers. Tons of early speed here for Pickin\u2019 Winners, who had run in only two races over 7 furlongs in her entire career before last December, when she won the Grade 3 Exit Stage Left down in Florida. She\u2019s making her 39th career start here, and it looks like Pete at Denovo Stables is determined to make a more classic type runner out of his star filly.<\/P>

( 4 ) DIPLOMATIC TIES (KY)<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (17-5-3-5,\u00a0 $244,048)<\/P>

4 YO Brown Filly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Odds:<\/STRONG> 6\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG> Shamrock Stables<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 106\u00a0\u00a0 (12\/17\/11, 04\/21\/12, 02\/25\/12)<\/P>

Diplomatic ties is a four year old daughter of Kingmambo who\u2019s out of the Dynaformer mare Bold Bandit, a graded stakes placed mare in her day. Bold Bandit ran mostly in turf routes early on in her career, before she switched to the dirt later and got a couple of place finishes in graded stakes on that surface. Her daughter here, Diplomatic Ties, looks like she\u2019s following her mom\u2019s dirt success. Diplomatic Ties has been run on the turf, too, after starting her career on the dirt. Last time out Diplomatic Ties finished third in the 8-furlong Grade 3 Boquet O\u2019 Daisies Stakes in British Columbia. She turned in a 106 speed figure in that effort, a career-high that she has done three times in her career, with all of them coming in three of her last four starts. After trying the turf, she turned back to the dirt in her last four starts, and she\u2019s really starting to blossom on that surface. Diplomatic Ties is pretty versatile in her running style. In those last four dirt starts, she\u2019s shown the ability to stalk the early leaders or come flying from far back.<\/P>

( 5 ) \u00a0JONESTOWN RIOT \u00a0(JPN)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/STRONG>\u00a0(16 4-7-4, $164,168)<\/P>

4 YO Brown Filly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Odds:<\/STRONG> 7\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG> houseriot riot<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 108\u00a0 \u00a0(04\/28\/12)<\/P>

Jonestown Riot is making her 17th career start here, and this will be her first foray into graded stakes company. She\u2019s taken a while to bloom, but last time out, she busted out with a career-high 108 speed figure in an 8-furlong allowance win in Italy. The four year old daughter of Johannesburg was sort of flipping back and forth in distance between 8 and 9 furlongs in her career, until her last three starts, when her connections settled her into three one mile distance allowance races. This must be what she likes, because in those three starts, she\u2019s thrown the only triple digit speed figures of her career. She\u2019s out of the Smarty Jones mare Romans Nine, who was graded placed in her career. She\u2019s hitting a couple of tough ones here in the Grade 2 Golfer\u2019s Wagers, including odds-on favorite Union Jack Flyer and Pickin\u2019 Winners, a graded winner, but if she keeps on showing improvement in the speed figure column, as she has been lately, there\u2019s no reason to think she can\u2019t run with the likes of these. Pretty interesting four year old here. She\u2019s been top three in 15 of her 16 career starts, which means\u2019s she\u2019s super consistent. Might want to keep your eye on her in the first graded stakes run of her career this weekend. She\u2019s 7\/1 in this spot, and she just might be pretty live on race day.<\/P>

( 6 ) LIVING LAVISH (GER)<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (29 9-6-2, \u00a0$202,527)<\/P>

5 YO Brown Mare\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Odds:<\/STRONG> 5\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG> Gotta Catch ‘Em All<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure:<\/STRONG>\u00a0 108\u00a0 \u00a0(03\/24\/12)<\/P>

Gotta Catch \u2018Em All Stables sends the German-bred Living Lavish here to the Grade 2 Golfer\u2019s Wager here in Ontario this weekend. The five year old daughter of Monsun is out of the Deputy Minister mare Blarney Deputy, and Living Lavish is one of her eight foals. Living Lavish is a half to stakes-winner Silver Earns Gold, but Living Lavish has yet to pick up her first stakes win going into her 30th career start here. She\u2019s a former claimer who looks like she might be ready to hit the big time. Living Lavish was riding a four-race win streak going into her only listed stakes try last time out. She ran eighth in the Gold Hero Dirt Mare Route, a 9.5-furlong affair in Upper New York. That 9.5-furlong race might have been a bit long for her. She\u2019s dropping in distance here, and this 8.5 furlongs she\u2019ll see in the Grade 2 Golfer\u2019s Wager might be more to her liking. She has popped triple digit speed figures in four of her last six starts, and that bodes well for her here. She\u2019s been much more consistent lately, and at 5\/1 Living Lavish is not a bad play at all in this spot. She might not beat Union Jack Flyer, who\u2019s the class of this bunch, but she should acquit herself well here.<\/P>

( 7 ) \u00a0UNION JACK FLYER \u00a0(KY)<\/STRONG>\u00a0\u00a0 (22 10-7-2,\u00a0 $3,283,820)<\/P>

5 YO Chestnut Mare\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Odds:<\/STRONG> 8\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owner:<\/STRONG> ScotsAnglo<\/P>

Career High Speed Figure: <\/STRONG>\u00a0114\u00a0 \u00a0(09\/25\/10, 03\/05\/11)<\/P>

Union Jack Flyer is by far the class of this field. In 22 career starts, the 2011 Eclipse Award (Champion Older Mare on Dirt) winner has run in an amazing 17 graded events, and she\u2019s won seven of those. It\u2019s easy to see why she won the Eclipse last season. Look at what she did in 2011. She won four grade 1\u2019s (The Original Margaritaville, The Very Vane, The Go For Gold and the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Distaff). She also won a grade 3 early last season, and if all that wasn\u2019t enough, Union Jack Flyer topped off her season last year with a second place finish in the Grade 1 Japan Dirt Cup–against the boys, no less. Oh my, Union Jack Flyer was a very busy girl last season, and her Eclipse Award was well-deserved. She has got some monster speed figures on that resume of hers, as you might well imagine. She took a little time off after that Grade 1 Japan Dirt Cup race. Then she opened up this season with a tune-up allowance win in Germany while she was overseas. She came back last time out and finished second in the Grade 3 Route Sixty Six in Illinois after a two-month layoff. She\u2019s back and ready to roll again. She really prefers 9 furlongs, but the \u00bd furlong drop in distance here in Ontario this weekend shouldn\u2019t matter much to her. She can handle this field, and she\u2019s odds on against this bunch in the Grade 2 Golfer\u2019s Wager this weekend. It\u2019s hard to imagine her losing this race, but then again, it\u2019s hard to imagine her losing anywhere she happens to show up. She\u2019s got over $3.2 million in earnings, and she might just get her second Eclipse this year, before it\u2019s all said and done. It\u2019s still early in the season, but if she can hit last season\u2019s form, or come anywhere close, she should be in the running for her a major award. An outstanding mare from ScotsAnglo Stables, she\u2019s a daughter of A.P. Indy out of the Awesome Again mare Beatbenwithastick. And Union Jack Flyer is looking real good in this spot this weekend.<\/P><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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