Global View hinted that he may become Glen Hill Farm’s newest turf star when
scoring a fluent, and ultimately cozy, victory in Saturday’s $100,250
Generous
Stakes at Hollywood Park. Now perfect in two turf starts, the Tom Proctor
pupil easily handled the step up in class off a recent maiden win.
Joe Talamo took over the mount from Hall of Famer Gary Stevens, who’s riding
in Japan this weekend. Stevens had guided the blueblood son of Galileo in his
first two outings. After an educational run in a 5 1/2-furlong dash on Del Mar’s
Polytrack July 22, where he rallied for an eye-catching fourth, Global View
resurfaced in an October 27 maiden on the downhill course at Santa Anita.
Although the about 6 1/2-furlong sprint still figured to be on the sharp side
for him, the promising colt thrived in his first turf opportunity and rallied to
a 1 3/4-length success. Stretching out to two turns in the one-mile Generous
promised to suit him even better, and so it proved.
Ontology bounded out to the early lead through splits of :23 3/5 and :47 1/5
on the good turf. Persisting sat in second, even-money favorite Pablo del Monte
tracked in third, and Global View, the 2-1 second choice, strode comfortably in
fourth.
Nearing the far turn, Global View commenced a good-looking move that
propelled him into second. Ontology was still two lengths clear at the
six-furlong mark in 1:11 3/5, but Global View was poised to pounce.
Straightening for home, the dark bay lengthened stride, accosted the pacesetter
through seven furlongs in 1:23 4/5, and pulled away.
Aotearoa closed from last, but didn’t seriously threaten the handy, 1
1/4-length winner. Global View stopped the teletimer in 1:36 1/5, furnishing
$6.40 to win and advancing his scorecard to 3-2-0-0, $93,300.
“Gary Stevens told me a lot about this horse,” Talamo said. “He said this
horse is very classy and pretty push-button. He sure was today. We had a great
trip. I just took him to the outside and he did the rest.”
“He’s a really nice horse and has always acted like a nice horse,” Proctor
said. “I’ve worked him a mile. He’s bred to run all day, so I wasn’t worried
about that. He relaxed, (Talamo) gave him a good trip, and it makes a horse look
better when they get a good trip. It’s nice to get a stakes win in him and we’ll
go from there.”
Aotearoa took time to find his best stride.
“I had a lot of horse,” jockey Martin Garcia said, “but when I asked him on
the turn he stayed the same. He may be just a little bit green. He responded,
just a little bit late. He needed the race. Next time he’ll be tough.”
“He ran well,” trainer Leonard Powell said of the runner-up. “He hit a little
bit of a flat spot at the three-eighths. (Garcia) was asking him but he didn’t
pick it up. Once he leveled out, he picked it up very well.”
A further three-quarters of a length adrift was Royal Banker, who headed
Ontology for third. Pablo del Monte wound up fifth, trailed by Persisting.
Bred by Reiko and Michael Baum in Kentucky, Global View commanded $500,000
from his current connections at the 2012 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. He
was produced by the unraced Storm Cat mare Egyptian Queen, herself a half-sister
to multiple Grade 2-winning sire A. P. Warrior.
Global View’s second dam is Group 3-placed stakes heroine Warrior Queen, a
highweight three-year-old filly sprinter in England and a co-highweight in a
similar division in Ireland. Further back, this is the family of
globally-influential sire Storm Bird, who was an English/Irish champion
juvenile; Canadian Hall of Famer Northernette; French highweights Green Tune and
Pas de Reponse; and multiple Grade 2 star Silentio, winner of Friday’s Citation
Handicap to open the Hollywood Turf Festival.
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