Elias Stable B-South Gate Farm (KY) T-Todd A. Saratoga, 7-29, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:49.61, sy.ġ– FORTE, 124, c, 3, by Violence 1st Dam: Queen Caroline (MSW, $401,608), by Blame 2nd Dam: Queens Plaza, by Forestry 3rd Dam: Kew Garden, by Seattle Slew Saturday, Saratoga Race Course JIM DANDY S. The family traces tail-female to the great La Troienne through her Broodmare of the Year granddaughter by War Admiral, Striking. Her third dam is the MGSW Jeano (Fappiano), whose descendants also include champions Folklore (Tiznow) and Essential Quality ( Tapit) Japanese champion Contrail (Jpn) (Deep Impact ) and additional GISW Come Dancing (Malibu Moon). Park ( Uncle Mo) hammering for $850,000 to Mayberry Farm at Keeneland September. Forte's broodmare sire Blame has 14 stakes/six graded winners out of his daughters.įorte is the first foal out of Queen Caroline, with her now-juvenile colt Dr. Forte was a $110,000 purchase out of that auction.įorte is one of six top-level winners for Violence. Mike Repole and Vinnie Viola bought 43 yearlings for more than $16 million to top the sheets for the first of two straight years at the 2021 Keeneland September sale. at Saratoga due to the presence of meloxicam in his system. 1.įorte's connections are currently appealing his disqualification from a win in last summer's GI Hopeful S. while making his first start since capturing the GI Curlin Florida Derby Apr. Last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Forte, scratched on the morning of the GI Kentucky Derby with a well-documented foot bruise, ran a strong second in the 1 1/2-mile GI Belmont S. 26, a race that Pletcher had indicated is the main summer goal for Forte. The Jim Dandy is the traditional local prep for the GI Travers S. At the same time, I have the other horse (Angel of Empire), finally we get straight and he corrects his horse and we get to the wire and thank God, we get a head in front at the end.” It was hard to stop at the moment of the race. He kept coming out, coming out, but I'm on his heels. He continued, “The horse in front, I don't know if he see something, but he was getting out bad. As soon as I hit the clear, my horse go forward. said, “I was close to the rail (looking for room in stretch run). He's very competitive in the afternoons, he's an intelligent horse.” He's always been that way, he's always trained super. Irad said that compromised him a little bit from moving forward sooner.” I think once he was able to get himself in the clear and the horse on the lead (Saudi Crown) kept drifting out, out, out and maybe into the eight path at one point. “You're the one with a target on your back and you've got another stable (Brad Cox) with three horses in there,” winning trainer Todd Pletcher said. runner-up, who was drifting out several paths late himself, on the money. ![]() Racing in between rivals down the lane, Forte kept on fighting from very tight quarters and showed the heart of a champion to nail the narrow GIII Dwyer S. forced his way out at the top of the stretch and Forte bumped repeatedly with Angel of Empire ( Classic Empire) as they straightened. as Saudi Crown led the field of five through fractions of :23.93 and :48.10.Īll dressed up with nowhere to go approaching the quarter pole, Ortiz Jr. Racing with blinkers for the first time, the 3-4 favorite traveled kindly on the inside in third beneath Irad Ortiz, Jr. Elias Stable's champion Forte ( Violence) just got up to nail the pacesetting Saudi Crown ( Always Dreaming) by a nose and had to survive a stewards' inquiry in a roughly run renewal of Saturday's GII Jim Dandy S.
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