Get Stormy on course for Fourstardave; fields forming for
Spa juvenile stakes
Sullimar Stable’s Get Stormy is set for his attempt to land a second victory
in the Grade 2 Fourstardave Handicap after breezing five furlongs on the
Oklahoma turf course in a bullet :59 4/5 on Wednesday.
The move, which came with Eddie Castro aboard, was the quickest of 15 at the
distance.
“The jock did a great job and finished up good and galloped out good, and I
couldn’t have asked for anything more,” trainer Tom Bush said. “It was exactly
what we were looking for. We’re ready to go. He won’t do anything else before
the race besides gallop.”
The Fourstardave, which had its pursed raised to $500,000 this year, will be
contested August 11.
Get Stormy, a three-time Grade 1 winner, will enter the one-mile turf race
off a second in the Grade 2 Monmouth Stakes on June 10. In the Monmouth, Get
Stormy rated behind Presious Passion and Get Serious early, took the lead on the
far turn and was passed in the stretch by Data Link, who prevailed by one
length. Data Link is also probable for the Fourstardave.
“The race would have been a lot closer, but Get Serious saw Castro move up
(aboard Get Stormy) at the half-mile pole just to be in a better spot,” Bush
said.
“When Pablo Fragoso (on Get Serious) saw Castro move Get Stormy up, Get
Serious came flying up beside Get Stormy and shot to the lead. And Eddie was
screaming at him, ‘Where are you going? Where are you going?’ He was just
holding his spot, and they moved way too soon in the race. And that’s how come
he got caught. He couldn’t let Get Serious go on once that happened. But Get
Stormy ran good that day. He really did.”
In three other starts this year, Get Stormy won the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park
Turf Handicap in February, was fourth in the Grade 1 Maker’s 46 Mile at
Keeneland in April, and ninth in the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic in
May at Churchill. Get Stormy won both the Maker’s Mark Mile and Woodford Reserve
Turf Classic in 2011.
Get Stormy, now six, won the Fourstardave in 2010 but missed the race last
year with a minor tendon issue.
In addition to Get Stormy and Data Link, the Fourstardave is expected to draw
Grade 2 Firecracker winner Guys Reward, Grade 3 Poker winner Clear Attempt, and
Grade 3 Jaipur winner Upgrade. Corporate Jungle, Right One, Salto and Wise Dan
are also probable, with El Commodore questionable.
Next week’s graded stakes get underway on August 10, with the Grade 2,
$200,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for
three-year-olds. Csaba, an 8 1/4-length winner of the El Kaiser on July 21 on
dirt at Calder, will make his first start on grass since finishing third in the
Grade 3 Palm Beach in March at Gulfstream Park. Expected him to face him are
multiple Grade 3 winner Daddy Nose Best, Grade 3 victor Shkspeare Shaliyah,
stakes winner Skyring, and Optimizer, Quick Wit, Spring to the Sky, and Yari.
Howe Great and Tiz Sardonic Joe are questionable, according to NYRA Stakes
Coordinator Andrew Byrnes.
Grade 2 juvenile stakes are featured on August 12, with fillies competing in
the $200,000 Adirondack and colts going in the $200,000 Saratoga Special. Both
races are contested at 6 1/2 furlongs.
Starlight Stables’ Shanghai Bobby, already a stakes winner having taken the
Track Barron overnight stakes at Belmont Park on June 27, heads the field in the
Saratoga Special. Also expected, according to Byrnes, are Carried Interest, who
earned a BRIS Speed rating of 103 winning his Belmont Park debut by a
half-length, along with In Harm’s Way, Sky Captain, Southern Honor and possibly
Bobcat Jim.
In the Adirondack, Stonestreet Stables’ Kauai Katie will make a quick
turnaround from her 12-length maiden victory at Saratoga on opening day to face
Can’t Explain, runner-up in the Grade 3 Schuylerville last time out, as well as
Salamera, Scammony, Sweet Shirley Mae and Vitameta.
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