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11/25/09 - Noonmark to Enter Stud at Sequel Stallions at Keane Stud

9/28/09 - Sequel Stallions will transfer the present stallion roster of FREUD, HOOK AND LADDER, and READ THE FOOTNOTES to Keane Stud in Amenia, New York. Sequel Stallions at Keane Stud will announce a new addition to the stallion roster later this season.

8/31/09 - DEAN HENRY, 118, Dk b. or br. f. 4, Empire Maker - Baydon Belle, by Al Nasr (Fr) won the SARATOGA DEW S. at Saratoga Race Course going 9 furlongs. She had a troubled trip and was able to slpit horses late and get up by a head . A homebred for Lawrence Goichman, she was foaled at Keane Stud. She is trained by Thomas Albertrani.
Lifetime: 8-3-1-1, $114,935.

Yet Again 124, Dk b. or br. f. 4, Catienus SD—Folly Go Rightly, by Distinctive
Pro. Owner, Seahorse Stable; breeder, Dr. Cary Shapoff (N.Y.); trainer,
Karl M. Grusmark. $16,590.
My Dinah 124, Ch. f. 4, Victory Gallop—

8/29/09 -Keane Stud foaled and raised and NY Champion as a 2 year old, DOREMIFASOLLATIDO ran third in the New York Oaks at Finger Lakes. A daughter of Bernstein DOREMIFASOLLATIDO was bred by Dr. Edward Messina of Equiology Concepts, Inc. in Briarcliff Manor and is the fourth winner and second graded winner produced from Consider It Done, who is a half-sister to five-time stakes winner Lily's Affair ($528,970). DOREMIFASOLLATIDO won the Matron G2 as a two year old and has been knocking on the stakes door as a three year old. Recently she was second in the Fleet Indian S. at Saratoga.

8/3/09 - MSW DANCE GAL DANCE, .winner of the Fleet Indian S. at Saratoga, and DOREMIFASOLATIDO who ran second, were both foaled and raised at Keane stud,.

Dance Gal Dance dueled for the early lead under Rajiv Maragh and shook free in the stretch to a clear victory in the $73,000 Fleet Indian Stakes. After she was pressed by 1.75-to-1 favorite Doremifasollatido through an opening quarter in :22.38, Dance Gal Dance put away that foe in the stretch under steady urging and powered to a 2 1⁄4- length victory, her fourth career stakes win.

Doremifasollatido finished willingly for second.

 

4/13/09 - 2 NY Bred Champions Foaled at Keane
Excerpts Courtesy of www.nybreds.com ( please click to view photos)
by Rab Hagin

DOREMIFASOLLATIDO - Champion Two-Year-Old Filly

Charged from fifth to first among nine within a quarter-mile span in Belmont's Grade 2 Matron Stakes at seven furlongs, she captured that event by two lengths while evoking a memorable serenading stretch call from NYRA track announcer Tom Durkin, who was inspired by her name. Also placed second among eight behind a subsequent Grade 1 winner in Saratoga's Grade 2 Adirondack after breaking dead last and circling five-wide into the stretch and won a five-furlong maiden special by six lengths at Belmont in 57.36, earning $217,000 as a juvenile. Owned by Susan Moore and M and M Thoroughbred Partners (John Moore, etc.) of Far Hills, New Jersey and trained by James Jerkens, this dark bay stretch-runner was bred by Dr. Edward Messina of Equiology Concepts, Inc. (a pedigree analysis company) in Briarcliff Manor and was foaled at Keane Stud. Dr. Messina originally wanted to keep the New York-bred but sold her through Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services, agent, for $110,000 to Cecil Seaman, agent for the filly's current owners, at Keeneland's 2007 September yearling sale. The top-weighted New York-bred (at 116 pounds) on the 2008 Experimental Free Handicap, she is a half-sister to graded-winning turf filly Fortunate Damsel.

J'RAY - Champion Four-and-Up Female, Champion Turf Female

An NYTB champion at two, an open stakes-winning three-year-old, and a multiple graded-winning four-year-old, she had her best season ever as a five-year-old in 2008, capturing Woodbine's Grade 2 Canadian Stakes and Monmouth's graded Taylor Made Matchmaker Stakes. Runners she beat in Woodbine's Grade 2 event included Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill, 2008 Saratoga Grade 1 turf winner Forever Together, 2008 Woodbine Grade 2 turf winners Callwood Dancer and The Niagara Queen, and French Group 3 turf winner Danzon. Won or placed in more open stakes (six) and graded stakes (five) in 2008 than any other New York-bred -- from Florida to New York, New Jersey, and Canada -- prior to retiring with a career bankroll of $969,843. A homebred for Lawrence Goichman of Greenwich, Connecticut and conditioned by four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher, this smallish chestnut stretch-runner was foaled at Keane Stud in Amenia. At the conclusion of her career last December, Goichman had high praise for the champion that he had named for his wife Jennifer (middle name Ray): "She was a wonderful mare and retired sound," Goichman told The Blood-Horse magazine. "She gave five pounds to the winner in her last start (at a mile and a half) and still only lost by a head."

 

2/16/09 - The top two New York fillies on the 2008 Experimental Free Handicap were foaled at Keane Stud,Doremifasolatido and My Magic Moment

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1/12/09 - Grade 2 SW SHESALLELTISH, a four year old filly by Eltish was sold at Keenland January for $280,000 to Katsumi Yoshida, and was one of top ten highest prices. She sold as a racing or broodmare prospect.

We wish her well for her new owner.

SHES ALL ELTISH,ran third in the JUDY'S RED SHOES at Calder in September. Before that she was third in the DELAWARE OAKS (G2) at Delaware Park. She is hitting the board in graded stakes with regularity, having run a grudging second in the Black Eyed Susan, G2 earlier this year. Before that she dominated in the BONNIE MISS S. (G2) at Gulfstream. She won as she pleased by almost 7 lengths.
Lifetime: 11 3 4 3 $273,580

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J'ray Retired; Booked to Medaglia d'Oro
Courtesy of the Blood-Horse

J’ray, a stakes winner all four years she raced, has been retired from racing and will be bred to Medaglia d'Oro, one of the leading first-crop sires this year. The 5-year-old daughter of Distant View won or placed in 18 of 26 races and earned $969,843.

After finishing unplaced at 2 on dirt in her first start, J’ray started racing on the turf and won four straight races following the switch, including the Jessamine Stakes, Selima Stakes, and Tropical Park Oaks. After that, she made all but one other start on grass.

A homebred for Lawrence Goichman, J’ray was a two-time graded stakes winner in 2007-08. She won this year’s Taylor Made Matchmaker Stakes (gr. IIIT) in course-record time at Monmouth Park and the Canadian Stakes (Can-IIT). Last year, she scored grade III turf wins in the Bayou Breeders’ Cup and My Charmer Handicaps.

J’ray won all nine races at 1 1/16 and 1 1/8 miles and came within a head of winning at 1 1/2 miles in the Dec. 13 La Prevoyante Handicap (gr. IIT) in what was her last race. “She was a wonderful mare and retired sound,” Goichman said. “She gave five pounds to the winner in her last start and still only lost by a head.” 

In her race before that, the 1 1/2-mile Long Island Handicap (gr. IIT), J’ray was beaten a length while giving the winner six pounds. She was trained by Todd Pletcher.

A New York-bred, J’ray is out of the winning Darshaan mare Bubbling Heights. She will be sent to Catherine Parke’s Valkyre Stud near Georgetown, Ky.

Goichman chose grade I winner Medaglia d’Oro as a mate for J’ray because of the pedigree cross involving Medaglia d’Oro’s grandsire, Sadler’s Wells, with Darshaan mares. Sadler’s Wells’ offspring out of Darshaan mares include English and Irish champions High Chaparral and Milan, plus European group I winner Greek Dance.

Bubbling Heights, who is in foal to Medaglia d’Oro, will be bred back to him in 2009.

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11/23/08 - Keane Stud foaled Love Abroad surprises to score 1st stakes win in Big A's 1-mile Itaka by Rab Hagin
courtesy of www.NYBreds.com

Photo: Adam Coglianese

LOVE ABROAD

In the third confirmation of the quality of New York Showcase Day's 2008 Empire Classic within an eight-day span, Tri County Stables' homebred LOVE ABROAD pulled a 16.40-to-1 surprise as the last choice among six New York-breds in Aqueduct's one-mile Itaka Stakes on Sunday, scoring his first stakes victory. The five-year-old gelding faced four 2008 stakes winners: graded winner Big Truck (3.40-to-1 second choice), open stakes winner and Preakness third-placer Icabad Crane (6.10-to-1 third choice), three-time 2008 stakes winner Stormin Normandy (odds-on at .70-to-1), and possible future millionaire Gold and Roses (6.70-to-1 fourth choice). In his latest previous outing 36 days earlier, Love Abroad had placed third in Belmont's Empire Classic behind winner Stud Muffin (second in Aqueduct's graded Stuyvesant Handicap on November 15) and runner-up That'srightofficer (second in Aqueduct's graded Discovery Handicap on November 22) -- earning his first black-type. In the Itaka, the Tri County Stable homebred was in front by 1-3/4 lengths at the wire, registering his fourth win at Aqueduct but his first tally on the Big A's outer main track.

Breaking from the outside post in his second consecutive outing under jockey Jose Lezcano, Love Abroad advanced from fifth place after the opening quarter-mile to third following a half-mile in 46.82, getting to within about 2-1/2 lengths of front-running favorite Stormin Normandy. Although the latter's three 2008 stakes wins had all been at sprint distances (including New York Showcase Day's six-furlong Hudson Handicap), he had won at a one-turn mile against open Aqueduct allowance company in April and was not expected to be severely challenged in the Itaka. On the turn, something happened, and Stormin Normandy quickly dropped from first to last, allowing a rapidly-advancing Love Abroad to dart through along the rail to take command. By mid-stretch, Lezcano's mount had a 3-1/2-length lead over closest pursuer Gold and Roses after having exited the turn in the two-path, and though both runner-up Icabad Crane and Gold and Roses cut into that margin in the final furlong, Love Abroad finished unthreatened.

Love Abroad appears to favor brisk weather at Aqueduct, having broken his maiden on the inner track by 4-1/2 lengths in February of 2007 and then scoring back-to-back allowance wins there in November and December, when he went through his restricted N1X and N2X conditions. Trainer John Hertler had kept the bay gelding out of competition for more than six months in 2008 until early August at Saratoga, and following two fourth-place efforts had sent the five-year-old off in the Empire Classic as the longest shot among 11 starters at 72.75-to-1. Love Abroad's third-placing in the Empire Classic provided the best single straight wager in that event at $17 for a $2 show ticket. Hertler then gave Love Abroad easy half-mile workouts on Belmont's training track on November 5 and 17 and obviously had him ready for the Itaka -- named for Brophy Stable's homebred multiple stakes winner and winner of the first Empire Classic (in 1994) at its current distance and conditions. The victory increased Love Abroad's earnings to $242,220 and improved his record to 4 - 7 - 3 in 24 starts.

A homebred for the Tri County Stables of Charles Goldberg, which previously had campaigned New York-bred multiple turf stakes winner Lady Bi Bi, Love Abroad is a half-brother to nine-time route winner (and still going strong) Whosgotthejohnnie ($136,716). The son of Not For Love is the second of four named offspring -- all winners bred in New York by Tri County Stables -- produced from the turf-winning Broad Brush mare, Wide Barrel. Love Abroad is an outcross (no inbreeding) through five generations, but his sire Not For Love is inbred 3 x 4 to Native Dancer, and his broodmare sire Broad Brush is inbred 3 x 3 to Turn-to. This is the immediate female family of Aqueduct 1992 Grade 1-winning filly Firm Stance.

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10/26/08 - MY MAGIC MOMENT by Forest Wildcat out of Sari by Cozzene, won the open MISSY MOO I LOVE YOU Stakes at Belmont .The filly foaled at Keane

10/23/08 - KEANE STUD FOALED Doremifasollatido draws post potition 13 in the Distaff Juvenile giving Jimmy Jerkens the quote of the day. "What else can you do except give the jock a leg up!"

Exercise rider Kelvin Pahal let Doremifasollatido roll for 2 furlongs in the stretch during a morning gallop Thursday morning. “She just went slow, like 24-and-change,” said trainer James JerkensBelmont in her most recent start, will break from post 13 in the Juvenile Fillies.

“There’s not much you can do about it,” said Jerkens, whose filly will be ridden by Eibar Coa. “It’s up to the jock. He’s got to make a decision before he gets to the turn whether to go a little more or to take back a little bit.”

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10/18/08- Keane Stud foaled and raised, STORMY'S SMILE won the Maid of Mist at Belmont she was born at On the same day, Love Abroad was third in Empire Classic. He was also foaled and raised at Keane Stud.

Stormy's Smile ($153.00!) scores front-running shocker in Maid of the Mist by Rab Hagin Courtesy of www.nybreds.com Photo: Adam Coglianese STORMY'S SMILE The only unplaced maiden among 12 New York-bred two-year-old fillies (11 wagering interests) in Showcase Day's one-mile Maid of the Mist Stakes was Francis Paolangeli's homebred STORMY'S SMILE, who shocked onlookers by immediately grabbing the lead and never getting caught, winning by 3-1/2 lengths as the 75.50-to-1 ninth choice. The rest of the race was surprisingly formful, with half of the 2.60-to-1 favored entry, Anjorie, advancing to within a length of the winner but no further, and 4.80-to-1 co-third choice Sneakin Up -- winner of Belmont's $111,900 Joseph A. Gimma 27 days earlier -- overtaking Anjorie for second. What happened? "We know she wanted to go long; her mother did nothing but go long," explained winning owner-breeder Paolangeli of Ithaca, New York. "So, he (winning trainer Dominic Galluscio) was game to run a maiden, and we know she wanted to go long. I'm just elated; I can't believe the price!" exclaimed Paolangeli, who also bred and raced Stormy's Smile's 11-time winning and three-time stakes-placed dam, Serenity's Smile ($178,634). "I thought she would run well and actually, we put her in here because we thought she would have some kind of chance," Paolangeli continued. "I would have been happy to share it instead of taking a whole piece of the pie." As owner and breeder of a winning 75.50-to-1 shot in a six-figure stakes, that would be pi(e) squared several times over. Stormy's Smile's stunning performance started with an opening quarter-mile in 22.60 -- faster than the Sleepy Hollow opening quarter (23.04) and putting her a length and a half in front, after which no rival seemed willing to run with the Paolangeli homebred even though her subsequent splits dropped off significantly. It was Stormy's Smile's first outing under jockey Jose Lezcano, who reported that the Maid of the Mist winner performed perfectly: "The filly broke really good," observed Lezcano. "I knew she was going to break good. I sent her and let her go. I asked her to run, and she gave me a real good kick." Victory in the Maid of the Mist increased the earnings for Stormy's Smile to $69,511 in three starts. The daughter of Stormy Atlantic had finished fifth among eight in her 5-1/2-furlong Saratoga debut and fourth among nine in Finger Lakes' $156,612 Lady Finger Stakes for state-bred fillies going six furlongs on Labor Day, after which she was away from competition until Showcase Day. In the 47-day interim, trainer Galluscio had given Stormy's Smile four workouts at Belmont, including one fairly quick half-mile drill on September 21 and a long (seven-furlong) breeze a week prior to Showcase Day. Stormy's Smile is the first offspring produced from New York-bred Serenity's Smile, who did not race as a two-year-old and did not place in any stakes until her four-year-old and five-year-old seasons, scoring 11 times on dirt -- seven at a mile and up -- under the care of trainer Galluscio. Serenity's Smile -- by the late leading New York-based stallion Dixie Brass -- is a half-sister to stakes-placed 11-time winning filly/mare Raf's Society Girl and is out of New York-bred Aggressivebynature, a first-out winning Distinctive Pro mare that Paolangeli also bred and raced.