Track record-setting Grade 3 victor Temple City was represented by his first
winner Sunday when Jusgimmetenminutes got up in time Arapahoe Park’s
1ST
race. Near the back of the pack early, the 9-2 chance rallied in traffic and
caught 8-5 favorite Tropic Vision by a neck, finishing 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:06
3/5 on the fast track. Miguel Fuentes Jr. was aboard for trainer Temple Rushton.
Jusgimmetenminutes was prevailing in his third try, following a second on
debut June 15 and a fifth on July 11. Bred by Oakmont Farm in Kentucky, he went
to current owner Ed Kidneigh for $1,000 as a newly-turned yearling at Keeneland
January. The dark bay colt is out of the unraced Harlan’s Holiday mare
Shezaharleygirl, from the extended family of champion Beautiful Pleasure,
multiple Grade 1 star Mecke and Grade 3 scorer Fortunate Prospect, the latter
two sires.
Temple City, a beautifully-bred son of Dynaformer out of a half-sister to top
sire Malibu Moon, captured his debut going 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita at the
end of his three-year-old season. Trained by Carla Gaines, the B. Wayne Hughes
homebred progressed into the Grade 2 ranks at four, and capped 2009 with a close
third in the Del Mar Handicap.
At his peak as a five-year-old in 2010, Temple City turned in a commanding,
wire-to-wire performance in the Cougar II Handicap, finishing 1 1/2 miles on Del
Mar’s Polytrack in a track record time of 2:30 2/5. The dark bay also missed by
a head in two major turf events at Hollywood Park, the 1 1/8-mile American
Handicap and the 1 1/2-mile Hollywood Turf Cup, and retired with a mark of
15-4-2-4, $326,400.
Temple City was produced by the unraced Danzig mare Curriculum, a daughter of
French Group 1 heroine Macoumba. Aside from Malibu Moon, Macoumba is responsible
for the multiple Grade 3-placed Positively; stakes-placed Mutually Benefit, by
Dynaformer and thus a three-parts sister to Temple City; and Lady Nichola, the
dam of Grade 3 victor Worth Repeating.
Macoumba is out of French Group 1 vixen and dual classic-placed Maximova,
making her a half-sister to Group 1-winning sire Septieme Ciel, multiple Grade 3
scorer Maxigroom, stakes diva Balchaia and stakes winner Manureva, the dam of
Grade 1 hero Riviera. Another descendant of Maximova is current classic winner
The Grey Gatsby, victorious in the June 1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby).
The nine-year-old Temple City stands at Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm near
Lexington, Kentucky, for $5,000, stands and nurses.
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