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The basic idea is quite interesting and different. It has a great deal of potential which it doesn't quite live up to. Won Darley Test S (G1), Sabin H (G3), Road Princess S 2nd Genuine Risk Breeders' Cup H (G2), Astarita S (G3), Old Hat S (G3), Miss Grillo S, Queen of Song S, Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Sprint S (R) 3rd Rampart H (G2), Nassau County Breeders' Cup S (G2), Bed o' Roses Breeders' Cup H (G2), First Flight H (G2) twice, Smart Angle S, Storm Flag Flying S, Beautiful Pleasure S.I think this film is something of a mixed bag. ($12,000 keesep yrlg).Ģ019: Miss Raison, gr/ro f, by Raison d'Etat. Raced 1 yr, 1 st, 0 wins, $149.Ģ018: Gr/ro f, by Animal Kingdom. Vanderbilt H (G1), 2nd Churchill Downs S presented by Ford (G1).Ģ017: Skee Bow, gr/ro g, by Oxbow. Speightstown stood the 2021 season at WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky., for a fee of $90,000.-Debbie TuskaĪt 3: Won Chick Lang S (G3), Concern S, 3rd Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix S (G2), Bruce D. He is also represented by Souper Stonehenge, a 5-year-old who took the Aug. Seven of his stakes winners this year prove the sire’s ability to throw endurance as they are age 5 or older. Calumet Farm then purchased second dam Swap Fliparoo (in foal to Classic Empire), a grade 1-winning sprinter in the seven-furlong 2006 Darley Test Stakes, for the bargain price of $50,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale, also out of the Denali Stud consignment.įourth dam, Flip’s Pleasure (by Flip Sal), was a grade 1 winner at 1 1/8 miles in the 1985 Top Flight Handicap.Ĭhampion Speightstown is the sire of 134 stakes winners, 10 in 2021.

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Riviera Romper has a Keen Ice yearling colt and a weanling full sister to Lexitonian.Ĭalumet purchased Riviera Romper with Lexitonian in utero for $310,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale from the Denali Stud consignment. Her other two starters are both unplaced. Lexitonian is the first of six foals out of the mare. As a 3-year-old, he took the Chick Lang Stakes (G3) at Pimlico and the Concern Stakes at Laurel Park.įive-year-old Lexitonian is by Speightstown out of Riviera Romper, by Tapit. His overall record is 5-2-2 from 19 starts with earnings of $687,682. In his four efforts this year, he was fourth in an allowance optional claiming race at Gulfstream Park, second in the Churchill Downs Stakes Presented by Ford (G1), and sixth in the Hill ‘N’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap (G1) at Belmont Park before claiming the Vanderbilt. This was Lexitonian’s fourth victory in 16 starts for Sisterson. The ultimate goal is the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at the end of the year.” We’ll see how he comes out of the race and go from there. “Right after the race, I like to set a plan, and obviously we’re here in Saratoga and he handled the track well yesterday, so the next stop could potentially be the Forego. 28 Forego (G1) at seven furlongs at the Spa for Lexitonian’s next start. But I’ve run him in every grade 1 and been hard on him, and this is how he responds today.” You’d think a horse that was eased and thrown in some clunkers, you’d sit back and think let’s drop him down a grade and give him a confidence builder.

“He ran in the Met Mile and he was eased. “I have to give Lexitonian a ton of credit,” said trainer Jack Sisterson, who also took home his first award in the Vanderbilt. He’s the type of horse that needs to be involved and sometimes he doesn’t break all that well and has to stay in the back.

Vanderbilt, said of Lexitonian, “This horse is a very good horse. Jockey Jose Lezcano, winning his first Alfred G. Lexitonian completed the six-furlong sprint in a time of 1:09.38 at 34-1, the longest price in the field. The favorite, Mischevious Alex, finished eighth of nine. In the end Lexitonian spurted clear a half-length winner, with Whitmore 1 1/4 lengths back in third. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) July 31 at Saratoga Race Course. Calumet Farm homebred’s Lexitonian battled with Special Reserve back and forth for first and second in the Alfred G.

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