After Sharp Aza Tack The first score is certain on the pitch at Santa Anita . ParkCoach Doug O’Neill began looking for a race as a set-up for the $500,000 Global Junior Sprint on September 8 at Kentucky Downs.
That race is the $100,000 Tyro Stakes on July 30 at Monmouth Park, and it turned out to be just a gym session for my 2-year-old son Sharp Azteca who has now selected two stake winners from his first deal.
Flashing with impressive speed early and then with even more prowess late in the game, Sharp Aza Tack finished to claim a 7 1/4 win in a quick final time: 55, 71 for five badmintons on solid grass.
O’Neill said: “I decided to move the horse to Monmouth Park after speaking with owner Ron Arakelian (of R3 Racing). “We went around the Global Tote Juvenile Sprint at the Kentucky Downs (at 6:30 a.m. on the grass) for him, and we thought, ‘Where’s the good between winning at Santa Anita and the Kentucky Downs?’ The race at Monmouth Park was perfect. “
Sent off the field as an even-coin favorite in the under-seventh field, Sharp Aza Tack needed only a small initial boost from track runner Jairo Rendon as he quickly opened on the court. over a quarter mile open at: 21.49 before trailing its rivals on its turn to go home.
Rendon, who has 13 wins on the pitch out of his 21 wins for the year, said the only thing he knows about Sharp Aza Tack is from one of his runs.
“I don’t know much about this horse because its only race is in California,” Rendon said. “I know from previous performances that he is very fast from the gate. So I expected the same from him today – and that’s what he did.
“The only thing Doug O’Neill told me was ` `he was a nimble horse. Just go.’ Once he strode, he took off. He won very easily in his second start and he won easily in his first match so it looks like he could be a good guy. “
Second choice Power Attack who chased the winner throughout, finished second more than 1 3/4 length Bart’s Dream in part three.
“There are some good runners in there. I couldn’t be more impressed or proud of the way (Sharp Aza Tack) runs,” O’Neill said. “It’s hard to be more impressive than him.”
Bred by Joe and Emily Cowles in Kentucky, the Sharp Aza Tack was sold to dealer RiceHorse for $72,000 as a cove at the September 2021 Sale in Keeneland from a Legacy Bloodstock shipment. As a teenager earlier this year, he caught O’Neill’s eye at the Ocala Breeder Sales Company March Sale of a 2-year-old during training, where the trainer bought pony from RiceHorse Stable for $100,000.
Sharp Aza Tack was the third winner created from the mare Que Chulo, a daughter of Bernardini in group 1 Argentine Que Piensa Cat.
Video: Tyro S. (BT)
