James M. Dinan, Jacques J. Moore and Phantom House Farm’s GET SERIOUS (City Zip)
captured his third straight stakes on Sunday with a neck victory in the $175,000
Red Bank
S. (G3) at Monmouth Park. Ridden by Pablo Fragoso, the John Forbes trainee
took the lead out of the gate and established splits of :23 2/5, :46 1/5 and
1:09 1/5 before finishing up the one-mile firm turf feature in 1:33.
Sent off the 6-5 favorite in the eight-horse field, Get Serious paid $4.60,
$3.20 and $2.40 while keying the $32.60 exacta, $224.40 trifecta and $1,118
superfecta (4-1-9-2). Pleasant Strike (Smart Strike) rated in midpack, then put
in a rally in the stretch but could never get to the winner. The 9-1
fifth choice returned $7.80 and $5 while holding Steve’s Double (Stephen Got
Even) to third by a half-length. Show gave back $7.20 at 14-1.
Mambo Meister (King Cugat) followed in fourth by a length, but it was only a
head, nose and neck that separated Kiss the Kid (Lemon Drop Kid), Brave Tin
Soldier (Storm Cat) and Pick Six (Dynaformer). Jet Propulsion (Double Honor)
completed the order under the wire after Proudinsky (Ger) (Silvano [Ger]),
Vanquisher (Gulch) and Custer (High Yield) were all withdrawn.
Get Serious established a new course record of 1:32.78 for a mile at Monmouth
Park when taking the Elkwood S. on May 23, then came back to reduce the mark
even further when getting the one-mile Battlefield S. in 1:32.70 on July 11. The
chestnut gelding captured the off-the-turf Oceanport S. last out after it was
moved to Monmouth’s sloppy, sealed dirt, and also shows a win in last year’s
Alysheba S. From a 24-9-2-2 career mark, Get Serious has earned $537,441
lifetime.
Bred in New York by Morgan’s Ford Farm, Get Serious sold for $130,000 as a
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling. He is out of the winning Java Gal (Java Gold),
and has an unraced juvenile half-brother named Central Perk (Limehouse) and 2009
Rahy half-brother. Java Gal is herself a half-sister to German champion and
Grade/Group 1 victor Allez Milord (Tom Rolfe) as well as Grade 3-placed
Adventure On (Relaunch).
Others of note in the family include English Horse of the Year, multiple
champion and influential sire Nijinsky II (Northern Dancer), Irish champion Minsky (Northern Dancer)
and dual champion Doubledogdare (Double Jay).