Sagamore Unveils Maiden Winner Proportionality Sunday at Laurel
Sagamore Unveils Maiden Winner Proportionality Sunday at Laurel
Robey’s Boy Pulls Off 40-1 Shocker in Sunday Allowance Feature
Live Racing Returns Friday with Carryovers in Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5
LAUREL, MD – Sagamore Farm, which earlier this spring debuted subsequent stakes winner He Hate Me at historic Pimlico Race Course, unveiled another promising juvenile at Laurel Park Sunday afternoon.
Proportionality, a Maryland homebred daughter of Discreet Cat out of the Touch Gold mare All Mettle, rated off the early leaders before taking command at the top of the stretch and drawing away to a 1 ¼-length victory in the $40,000 maiden special weight event.
Ridden by Horacio Karamanos and coming off a string of strong, steady works at Laurel for trainer Horacio DePaz, Proportionality ($10.20) ran five furlongs in 59.81 seconds over a fast main track.
“She was training well coming into it. She’s a homebred and we had her mother when I first started working here, so we had some high expectations just because she’s been at the farm the whole time,” DePaz said. “She was born and raised at the farm and Ocala Stud broke her. They did a good job with her down there and sent her back here to us and we continued on with her training.”
Breaking sharply from Post 8 the field of nine 2-year-old fillies, Proportionality settled in the clear three wide as Virginia Fable and Lake Geneva dueled through an opening quarter-mile in 22.87 seconds. Karamanos ranged his filly up to the leaders after a half in 47.12 and surged to the front straightening for home, turning back a bid from Carson City Storm in mid-stretch to prevail. Belle ‘n Tonic, at 38-1 the longest shot in the field, closed well from far back to get third.
Proportionality’s dam, All Mettle, is a half-sister to multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire mare Paulassilverlining. Discreet Cat’s multiple graded stakes wins included the 2006 Cigar Mile (G1) while Touch Gold won the 1997 Belmont Stakes (G1).
“Her mother would run short, so right now we’ll just kind of keep her three-quarters and see where she goes from there,” DePaz said. “We’ll see how she trains after this race.”
DePaz said He Hate Me, winner of the Tremont June 9 at Belmont Park in his second start, is getting a break before he resumes training in late summer or early fall.
In Sunday’s $42,000 entry-level allowance feature, The Mares of Diomedes’ Robey’s Boy ($91.40) pulled off a 44-1 upset under jockey Taylor Hole to create carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and 50-cent Late Pick 5 for the return of live racing Friday.
Robey’s Boy, a 3-year-old Maybry’s Boy gelding, was fitted with blinkers for the first time, cut back in distance and moved to the grass by trainer James Casey for his first start since mid-April. He came charging on the far outside down the stretch and hung on for a neck victory over Miners Quest in 1:02.96 for 5 ½ furlongs on the Bowl Game Turf Course. It was another neck back to Shan Dian Kia in third.
The Late Pick 5 (Races 6-10), which offers an industry low 12 percent takeout, will have a carryover of $8,205.83 for Friday’s card. Tickets with four of five winners returned $30.75 Sunday.
A jackpot carryover of $773.49 will be available in the Rainbow 6 (Races 5-10), which paid $193.36 for tickets with five of six winners Sunday.
First race post time Friday is 1:10 p.m.
Notes: Jockey Jomar Torres and trainer Claudio Gonzalez teamed up for a pair of winners Sunday with Atascaderan ($7.20) in the second race and Negrito ($6.80) in the fourth. Also winning twice Sunday were jockey Victor Carrasco aboard Lost Story ($6) in the third and No Picnic ($18.60) in the eighth and trainer Mike Trombetta, who saddled Kabang ($4) in the seventh and No Picnic.
