January 26: First time starter GO ON MO (’20 c. Uncle Mo / Brusquer) wasted no time finding the winners circle at Gulfstream Park on Thursday. Sent off as the favorite, the WESLEY WARD trainee overcame a bumpy start to race confidently to a 2 ½ length victory.
GO ON MO was purchased by M.V. MAGNIER out of the 2022 FASIG-TIPTON Gulfstream Sale for $575,000. The colt races for the ownership group of MRS. JOHN MAGNIER, MICHAEL B. TABOR, DERRICK SMITH, WESTERBERG, JONATHAN POULIN, PETER M. BRANT, JOSEPH ALLEN, LLC. And GANDHARVI, LLC.
Congratulations to GO ON MO and his connections.
January 29: RESPECT THE CODE (’19 g. Honor Code / Anabaa’s Creation (IRE) earned his first black-type placing at Santa Anita on Sunday when finishing a game third in the $100,000 Clocker’s Corner Stakes. The gelding was a $55,000 OBS April Sale graduate in 2021. From eleven career starts he has tallied two wins, a second & two thirds earning $107,523.
Congratulations to owners DAVID A. BERNSEN, LLC & OMAR ALDABBAGH and conditioner GEORGE PAPAPRODROMOU.
January 29: Performing some magic of her own, TITUBA (’20 f. Good Magic / Sabi Sands) relinquished her lead in the stretch-run only to fight back on the rail to win by a neck in a MSW event at Gulfstream on Sunday.
THREE DIAMONDS FARM purchased the bay filly last July at the FASIG-TIPTON HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE for just $47,000. The TODD PLETCHER trainee is now 2-1-0-0. She was given a masterful ride Sunday by newly crowned Eclipse Award winning jockey IRAD ORTIZ, JR.
Congratulations to the talented TITUBA and her connections.