For several years, the EWC residency has held a pair of\nShowcase races early in the year. The\nresidency supports a number of sim-tracks in the game and residents breed 2\nyear olds for the Showcase race with sires that are located at the supported\ntracks. The horses in the Showcase\nraces have the opportunity to reunite for a year-end stake race. A pair of races are scheduled for this\nweekend, both going 5.5 furlongs with one on the turf and the other on the\ngrass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This article will focus on the turf race which has an extra\nlarge number of runners competing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ORKAN BABY<\/strong> (#7 \n13\/1)<\/strong> is owned by Royaldenmark and was bred in England. His mother, Lord Lady, was recently retired\nafter appearing on the track 11 times with one win. Golden Horn is the chosen as the sire. Not a bad choice as that one\u2019s bloodline\nincludes Cape Cross which could work well with the mother\u2019s bloodline which\nadds nice linkages to Kingmambo and Roberto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n UNHOLY MAMBO (#9, \n12\/1) <\/strong>has been bred by owner Liddleski. This is an Australian bred filly out of\nrecently retired listed stake winning Sailing The Seas who won 5 times on the\ngrass with 39 lifetime starts and was ITM 21 times. Unholy Mambo was sired by Americain who\u2019s\nbloodline contains Dynaformer and Roberto. \nThis should fester well with the DS and DDS brought in by the mother\nwhich are Sea The Stars and Kingmambo. \nLooks like a solid turf lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NINELIVESCATSEYES (#15 \n30\/1) <\/strong>belongs to Crawf68 who produced a colt using a sire named\nPounced. This guy was foaled in Italy\nand his mother, The Cattery, was an allowance winner with 5 turf victories over\na 32 race career. This is her second\nchild and her first is still seeking a win. \nThe bloodline is loaded with dirt capabilithy with the likes of Storm\nCat, Grand Slam (as DS), Carson City (as DDS) and quite a bit of in-breeding\nwith Mr. Prospector in the sire, DS and DDS lineages. The mother, The Cattery, was successful on\nthe grass but there is much to overcome with strong dirt runners in the\nbloodline as well as considerable in-breeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FRONTIER SKY (#5, \n40\/1)<\/strong> has been entered into the race by ownere Millerfarm. This is a dam-bred colt who was sired by\nFrontiersman in England. Noble Sky, his\nmother, was an allowance runner who scored 7 career wins (6 on turf) in 15\ncareer races with just under $100,000 in purses. This is her second child and her first has a\nwin on the turf. The Dam Sire, Camelot,\nlooks to bring in strong turf support with Montjue, Kingmambo and Sadler\u2019s\nWells providing a strong arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EWC MILLER FOUR (#14, \n9\/1) <\/strong>will keep the suds flowing for owner Cuetec. This is one of several fillies who have\nentered into the grass race and she was born in Australia to sire Deer\nField. EWC Miller Four is the eleventh\nchild out of mare Mambo\u2019s Sun who has two kids that have won listed\nstakes. Mambo\u2019s Sun appeared in 61 races\nduring her career and snagged a dozen wins. \nThe DS and DDS bring strong ability, especially on the grass with Monsun\nsitting in as the DS and Kingmambo as the DDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LIVE OFF THE LAND (#11, \n8\/1) <\/strong>was bred in Japan by owner Kashbarn. Cape Blanco is the sire and was used with\ngame mare I Ken Be Queen who won 13 times in 35 races and was an allowance\nwinner. This is her second child and the\nfirst born is winless as of this writing. \nFrankel and Kingmambo are the DS and DDS and bring strong grass ability\nto this filly. But there is in-breeding\nwith Galileo and Sadler\u2019s Wells appearing in the lineage for both the sire and\nDS that could have an impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CLASHING ACTS (#1, \n12\/1) <\/strong>is a dam-bred filly which is owned by Neonshadow. Her mother, Clash of Royalty, is an allowance\nwinner who was recently retired. She won\nthree turf races over her career which spanned 22 races. She was married to sire Magician and there\nare top names in the bloodline of Galileo, Deep Impact (DS) and even Giant\u2019s\nCauseway (DSS) which can work well with the turf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ELI MANNING (#16, \n10\/1)<\/strong> is owned by Sjmeola who is honoring the recent quarterback\nretiree with this horse who has already been gelded. This horse was bred in England and is a\nscratchbred with Cracksman as the sire, Danehill as dam-sire and Red Ransom as\ndam-dam-sire. Cracksman is a second\nyear sire and offers up nice turf lineage to Frankel and Galileo to the back\nend that is already nicely built with the turf in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TSR\u2019S BIG TOP (#3, \n40\/1) <\/strong>is owned by Tstack who was foaled in Australia by Trapeze\nArtist, who is a first year sire. His\nmother, TSR\u2019s El Paso was an allowance winner who was very reliable as she was\nITM 16 of 17 races with 4 wins. She has\none other child who is currently trying to break their maiden. There is faith that the sire will be the\nconnection to the turf with blood connections to Snitzel and Redoute\u2019s Choice\nwhere the DS and DDS lines seem to favor the dirt with Grand Slam, Sunday\nSilence and Tale of the Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SKYLINE HF (#12, \n21\/1) <\/strong>makes her debut for owner Hemarfarms. She was bred in England by her sire\nCityscap. Her mother is Natural Act who\nwas not lucky at all on the track with only one win in 29 starts. She now has 10 children with one becoming a\ngrade winner. Skyline HF may be\nsuffering a little bit as the top name looks to be Theatrical as DS who brings\nin Nureyev and Northern Dancer within the bloodline. Mother Natural Act has not had the best of\noffspring and hopes that this one could change things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SEPOY TWENTYTHREE (#4, \n34\/1) <\/strong>is a colt owned by Jm23stable and is a dam-bred colt. The colt has been sired by Sepoy in\nAustralia and is out of allowance winning game-mare Yamb Cries who had nice\nsuccess winning 20 times in 51 races all coming on the turf. This is the second child from the mare with the\nstrong bone in the bloodline coming from sire Sepoy who has connections to\nDanehill. Although the bloodline is not\noverly robust with big name sires, the success that mother Yamb Cries has had\ncould be well placed within this runners abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SHOWMAN FURY (#8, \n10\/1) <\/strong> is owned by\nMarky4577. This colt is a he-mare bred\nhorse out of War of the Planets, a horse who had nice breeding but did not race\nwell with one win in 15 lifetime starts. \nShowman Fury was foaled in Japan by sire Johannesburg and pulls some top\nnames in the bloodline with Sea The Stars (DS), Dansili (DDS), Danehill, Danzig\nand even dirt leaning Storm Cat. The\ngrass ability is definitely present but the question is how much impact will\nthe he-mare\u2019s ability weigh into the equation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n REVE MUZZLE (#6, 120\/1)<\/strong>\nis owned by Brit9 who opted to go the scratchbred route. The result was a colt who has been sired by\nReve Mistral with White Muzzle as DS and Damister as DDS. The top line does not look that impeding but\nwithin the lineage are links to the likes of King Kamehameha, Kingmambo, Mr.\nProspector and Raise A Native. It should\nbe noted that Reve Mistral is a first year sire with one child who has already\nraced this year and finished third on the grass with a 61 speed. Not a bad first time speed and that could be\na good sign for the Japan bred Reve Muzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FINANCIAL LITERACY (#2, \n16\/1) <\/strong>will be making his first start for owner Atthewire. He is a South Korean bred colt out of First\nDefence. His mother, Crossing the Wire\nis an allowance winner with 5 wins in 25 starts, two coming on the turf and\nthree on the poly surface. She has\nthree previous children, all of which have won at least once at the allowance\nlevel. Sire First Defence brings in a\nlot of well known dirt lineages that include Unbridled\u2019s Song, Seattle Slew and\nUnbridled. However, there is strength\nwith Galileo (DS) and Cape Cross (DDS) on the backside of the breeding which\ncan level the ground or maybe even slant things towards a turf runner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EXCEPTIONATELY (#10, \n9\/1) <\/strong>is a filly who is owned by Smittie684. She is a dam-bred who has been sired by\nNathaniel in England. She is the fourth\nchild from game-mare Exceed Expectation who did not live up to her name and had\na short career with only 8 starts with one win which came on the dirt. One of her children is an allowance winner\nwho had a top-3 finish in a graded race. \nAs for Exceptionately, the turf ability resides in the sire and dam sire\nwith names like Galileo, Danehill, Sadler\u2019s Wells and Danzig. The DDS brings some dirt ability with AP\nIndy (DDS), Seattle Slew and Secretariat. \nThe mother raced both surfaces and did not excel on either. Hopefully, this one will excel and it may\njust be on the turf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A.P. UNFAIR TALENT<\/strong> (#17, 9\/2)<\/strong> is owned by Tyedye and was foaled in\nGreat Britain by sire Frankel. His\nmother, A. P. Rizz Kid is a G3 winner with over $600,000 in career earnings and\n8 wins (all on turf) over 44 races. She\nhas bred 13 children with two becoming grade winners and another five winning\nlisted stakes. With Frankel as the\nsire, there is strong turf blood on this end with links to Galileo, Danehill\nand Sadler\u2019s Wells. The back end of AP\nIndy (DS) and Unbridled (DDS) tend to favor the dirt surfaces. Unfair Talent, will probably favor the turf\nas many of his brothers and sisters have found favor with this surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SHOW PROMISE (#13, \n7\/1) <\/strong>goes into the gate for the first time for owner Denovo who bred\nthis filly in Great Britain using New Approach as the sire. Queen Connection is the game-mare for this\nbaby who is an allowance winner and has now bred 10 kids, of which two have won\nlisted stake races. Over her career,\nQueen won three times on the turf and raced a total of 32 times. A very nice lineage of turf blood sticks out\nin the breeding line with Kingmambo as DS and Redoute\u2019s Choice as DDS. Along with the sire, there are crosses to\nGalileo, Danehill, Mr. Prospector and a few other large names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The talent in the race looks to be with the favorite A.P.\nUnfair Talent. The bloodline is solid\nand lots of stake winners out of the game mare. Gets the top choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EWC Miller Four gets second pick as owner Cuetec always\nseems to get a piece of something and this something has a well race mother\nwith a few stake winning children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Show Promise also has a mother that has produced stake\nwinners and the bloodline has nice solid names that have the grass in their\nliking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exceptionately has top of the line names in the lineage and\ncan\u2019t be ruled out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For several years, the EWC residency has held a pair of Showcase races early in the year. 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