{"id":9942,"date":"2012-01-30T00:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T00:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=9942"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=9942","title":{"rendered":"Magniforma Rocks Turf World With Stunning G2 Fitness Cup Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a relatively unknown grade 2 race, off the beaten path, really.\u00a0\u00a0And while it’s still early in the season, it was a race that was being hyped in the BTB as \u201cThe Showdown\u201d.

There was 2011 Eclipse Award Champion Older Horse On Turf nominee Jukebox Kid, who stunned the SIM world last season when he reeled off ten wins in a row.

And then there was Can I Get Twelve, who ended Jukebox Kid\u2019s fabulous streak with an amazing win on Del-Penn Champions Day, when he scored huge in the Grade 1 Penn Endurance.

No one else was supposed to touch those two in this 16-furlong Grade 2 Fitness Cup this weekend in New Zealand. It was the race that would kick start one or the other on the road to perhaps a 2012 Eclipse Award campaign.

But, as the racing Gods would have it, someone did touch those two horses.\u00a0 In fact, if you read the main board forum today, you\u2019ll find she touched–and stunned–quite a few people.

It was a female who did it, and\u00a0a lightly raced one at that.

Frankster\u2019s mare Magniforma, a lightly raced Irish-bred scratch-bred daughter of Galileo, absolutely rocked the turf world and turned it on its ear yesterday when she busted out with a monster performance and scored a 5 \u00be length win here this weekend in the Grade 2 Fitness Cup in New Zealand.

It wasn\u2019t just that she won.\u00a0 It was the way she won that had people shouting from the main board rafters.

In a simply breathtaking performance that saw the five year old mare\u00a0bound out to as much as an insurmountable 16 \u00bc length lead at one point\u00a0Saturday, Magniforma stole the thunder away from the boys in this open race on the turf in New Zealand, and in doing so, she just may have kick started her own Eclipse campaign.

\u201cTo be perfectly honest, I\u2019m not shocked she won, as I fully expected her to run well with an excellent chance of winning that race, although I must admit she left me in awe yet again in the manner in which she won and opening up by 16+ furlongs,\u201d said her owner, Frankster, who probably looked pretty much like a deer caught in the headlights when he was watching the race. <\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Frank wasn\u2019t the only one who was shocked.

\u201cHoly crap!! I NEVER EVER saw a lead that big before except in those freaky races where a good horse faces 3 awful computer nags…Frank’s mare can flat out fly!\u201d posted Bill (nextbonus) on the main board. \u201cI watched it on the Coker viewer. My horse (Lowland Lightning) was so far back at one point that I shut the thing off. I was sure he’d be distanced. Was fairly pleased when I looked at the chart and saw he got a check in a field like that. Congrats to the winning connections!\u201d

\u201cKicked my ass in a dominant performance! Congratz to the winning connections!\u201d posted Jimmy of Smokeglack Stables, who said he put his horse, Can I Get Twelve, like Kirby did his, a bit closer to the front today.

\u201cAs far as today\u2019s s race, I put Can I Get closer to the pace at 40%, I believe, because I knew the speed was dominant. Guess I should have kept mopey\u00a0at the back and made a late charge. Oh well, he’ll be back in a few, after an allowance race,” said Jimmy in a post-race interview.

And the incredible Jukebox Kid\u2019s owner, Kirby55, was shocked as well in a thread he began on the main board forum.

\u201cJukebox kid started the year off trying to start a winning streak,\u201d posted Kirby on the main board. \u201cI had him stay a little closer to the front then before and he ran a great race but lost to Magniforma, who ran an amazing race with a 110 speed rating for 2-mile race. Should be some kind of record!\u201d

It was definitely a Fitness Cup Stakes record, that\u2019s for sure. Magniforma absolutely bludgeoned the previous stakes record of 3:28 2\/5 set by Sadler\u2019s Rock in last year\u2019s version of the Fitness Cup. She blew that record away by a full second, when she crossed the finish line in a time of 3:27 2\/5.

It\u2019s still early in the season, yes,\u00a0but Magniforma seriously raised more than a few eyebrows with the huge win, her seventh in only\u00a012 career\u00a0starts. And what was even more amazing was that she did it running a full four furlongs farther than she had ever run in her brief, albeit amazing, career up to this point.

And when you\u00a0throw in the fact that Magniforma remained undefeated against the boys in two starts\u00a0with her win Saturday, it\u00a0probably means this is a mare that’s going to be very much on the turf world’s radar this season.\u00a0

\u201cShe had already beaten the boys in the Grade 1 Europe Classic, so the boys didn’t scare me or her,\u201d said Frank, who said he had actually entertained thoughts of running her in that huge DPCD Del-Penn Endurance Stakes, the one in which Can I Get Twelve busted up Jukebox Kid\u2019s 2011 ten-race win streak a month ago.

\u201cHowever, she had such a troubled trip in the BB and pretty much didn’t even run,\u201d said Frank in his post-race interview, \u201cthat I opted to keep her at a similar distance and ran her in the Penn Test instead. That BB run was difficult to digest, as it not only cost her the race but also an Eclipse nomination. She is an amazing mare that possesses a wicked combination of both speed and stamina.\u201d

Speed and stamina, definitely. Wicked, most assuredly.

Two furlongs into Saturday race, Magniforma (who has Dynaformer and Mr. Prospector back there in that fabulous scratch-bred pedigree) had already put five or six\u00a0lengths between herself and the rest of the field. And four furlongs in, she was in front by 9 \u00be lengths.

By the time she reached the mile marker, Magniforma\u2019s competition had lost sight of her, because she was in front by an astounding 15 \u00be lengths.

And she just kept going\u2026and going\u2026and going\u2026and going. <\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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When she crossed the finish line 5 \u00be lengths ahead of the field, she had just given new meaning to the term “under wraps”. She was so wrapped up at the finish by her jockey M. Goff that she must have looked like a Christmas present for Frankster.

For the record, another Irish-bred, Rapaz finished second. Rapaz was as far as 21 \u00bd lengths behind Magniforma at the halfway marker of the race. He put on a pretty amazing comeback run to just finish second by 5 \u00be lengths.

Jukebox Kid finished third for his second race in a row, 6 \u00be lengths behind Magniforma, while Bill\u2019s horse Lowland Lightning did indeed pick up the fourth place check. He was 11 lengths behind at the wire.

And Jimmy\u2019s Can I Get Twelve, who was looking for his second win in a row over Jukebox Kid, finished fifth 12 \u00bd lengths back.

Magniforma, who was sent off by the crowd at nearly 13-1, a little up from her 12-1 morning line, paid $26.90, $12.70 and $9.10 across the board. And the 7-2 exacta with Rapaz paid a very nice $201.70.

The 7-2-5 trifecta, though, was the amazing payout. It paid a whopping $1,317.10. Obviously, the bettors were all over the Jukebox Kid-Can I Get Twelve hype.

\u201cI\u2019m not sure where I take Magniforma from here,\u201d said Frank. \u201cShe came out of today\u2019s marathon a little groggy, so I will rest her for the time being and then start looking at options down the road. I\u2019m not to worried about the little groggy bit, at all, as that was somewhat expected after running a two-mile race the way she did.\u201d

The way she did it–those were the key words.

It may be a very long time before we see another performance like we did in New Zealand\u2019s Grade 2 Fitness Cup.

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And if she can continue to combine this much speed with that stunning stamina at the end to win the way she did in her dominating performance on Saturday, this could be a very interesting season indeed in this long turf division.<\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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