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Forget the high-octane, Lazarus-style Seabiscuit-comes-back-and-wins-the-Big-’Cap comeback. Doug Fout has big-ger fish to fry with Dark Equation. Fout plans to use the bay gelding’s comeback campaign this summer as a spring-board for his swan song, a flat race next spring.

“I’d like to have him for my daugh-ter to ride in one flat race,” Fout said. “I would like to have him be her first ride.”

Sometime before that, Fout would also like to win the Grade I New York Turf Writers Cup. Just as a prep.

Fout’s barn favorite, who won the Turf Writers’ in 2008, is a fixture in the Oklahoma Annex. He can usually be found in the stall closest to the tack-room, with owner Peggy Steinman sit-ting guard in a lawn chair and a few hangers-on loving on him. Even at 9, Dark Equation still sports a sweet, baby face and a predilection for cuddling. There’s no getting around it: Dark Equa-tion, or Darkie, is spoiled rotten.

“He’s such a character. He waits for somebody to get to the barn every

morning first thing to turn him out be-cause he gets mad as a snake. He won’t eat any breakfast, pins his ears, gets his lip poked out. You’ve got to turn him out in his paddock the minute you walk in the barn. Man, if you don’t turn him out, he is a miserable sucker,” Fout said in a tone that suggested he would never think of allowing such a catastrophe to occur.

Twelve months ago, a stress fracture incurred during the Grade II A.P. Smith-wick put Dark Equation’s return to his throne at the Annex in jeopardy.

“He finished, but you could tell something was wrong at the bottom turn,” Fout said. “He always spars, he always jumps brilliant, he’s never put a foot wrong. You could tell he was just miserable coming down the backside.”

Fout said Steinman was praying they could bring the old campaigner back.

A month after the A.P., another set of x-rays revealed the injury to be healing well. Steinman and Fout started think-ing about dusting off his tack. The sec-ond week of January, Dark Equation stepped back onto Fout’s training track

in The Plains, Va. The rest of the ride was smooth sail-

ing. “We were perfect the whole way, easy ride, no bumps,” Fout said. “He’s our favorite. We wouldn’t dare taking a chance running him if he wasn’t a 110 percent.”

“My goal with him is to win the Turf Writers’. That’s what I’ve been prepping him for since January,” Fout revealed.

Dark Equation has made two starts

on the comeback trail, a 1 1/4-mile flat race at Colonial Downs in which he fin-ished fifth and a Grade III over fences at the same course June 11. Dark Equa-tion finished third, a performance that thrilled Fout.

“I was tickled to death with him. We knew there was a lot of speed in there. I told [rider Jeff Murphy] to drop him out

Tod Marksa grade i winner at Saratoga in 2008, dark equation eyes a return to form in 2010.

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the back, don’t get into the race until the bottom turn. We closed the gap up, he made up a huge amount of ground. He jumped fantastic. And he’s jumping even better now. He’s got a great bounce in him.”

Fout targets the Aug. 5 A.P. Smith-wick at 2 1/16 miles again as a prep for the 2 3/8-mile Turf Writers Aug. 26. “He likes that longer distance, the A.P. might be a little short for him. If he’s in the first three [in the A. P.] I’ll be tickled to death,” Fout said.

Fout hopes the campaign will be Dark Equation’s swan song, preferring not to run horses past their 9-year-old year. “My dream is to get through this year with him and I hope that he fin-ishes up in one piece and I’d like to have him for my daughter,” Fout said.

Caroline Fout, a fox hunter and intermediate-level eventer, celebrated her 16th birthday this summer. Fout admitted to some nerves about sending his little girl into the fray of a race, but took comfort in the trustworthiness of his old pal.

“The thing about him is you just sit there and steer. He’s just a pushbutton,” Fout said.

Fout intends to give Dark Equation one more schooling session and one more piece of serious work in the next week.

• In addition to Dark Equation, the Smithwick nominees include Arcadius, Chess Board, Dalucci, Divine Fortune, Dr. Bloomer, Dynantonia, Planets Aligned, Slip Away, The Price Of Love and Your Sum Man.

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So amazingRandleston Farm • Jimmy Day

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Swagger StickGil Johnston • Jack Fisher

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lead us notBill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard

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class bopperRodman Moorhead • Lilith Boucher

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dalucciCherry Knoll Farm • Janet Elliot

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dark equationPeggy Steinman • Doug Fout

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divine FortuneBill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard

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dr. bloomerIrv Naylor • Desmond Fogarty

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dynantoniaGregg Ryan • Julie Gomena

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planets alignedFox Ridge Farm • Tom Voss

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SeerSheila Williams, Andre Brewster • Jack Fisher

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Slip awayKen and Sarah Ramsey • Tom Voss

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It wasn’t that Miss Crown didn’t want to be a racehorse, it was just per-mitting herself to be locked into a start-ing gate was unacceptable.

The usual routine exercise became a daily battle at Donna Freyer’s Cam-den stable. The daughter of High Yield walked in nice as you please every day, but the minute the gates closed behind her, claustrophobia kicked in and it was the Battle of Waterloo.

Freyer tried everything anybody could think of: blindfolds, padding, ex-pert advice, and natural horsemanship. She imported Quality Road’s gate thera-pist, Bob Duncan.

“She defeated Bob Duncan,” Freyer said, with a shake of her head. “I’ve never, ever had anything so bad in the gate in my whole life. I don’t think any-body has.”

The routine – Freyer, armed with a fresh new tactic, waited until the end of the day when the spectator population was low and led the filly into the gate. Whereupon Miss Crown broke through the front and dragged Freyer’s assistant like a ragdoll halfway down the track.

“She has a very, very high tolerance for pain,” Freyer recalled. “She would look like Ben Hur when she came out of the gate, she was that cut up.”

Despite her daily explosions that left everyone panting and exhausted, Miss Crown still managed to worm herself into the hearts of the barn.

“Everyone loved her,” Freyer mar-veled. So Freyer called Bernie and Kate Dalton about her problem filly.

“You want to try this over jumps, because it’s not happening with a flat career?” she asked.

It turned out to be a good call. The filly broke her maiden in her second start

at Aiken Fall Meet in 2008 and has been knocking on the door in the filly and mare stakes division ever since. Knock-ing, until the second race at the Saratoga Open House when she ran away with a $15,000 claimer, 8 3/4-lengths ahead of Cuse (Carl Rafter) and Eagle Beagle (Pad-dy Young). Bernie rode, Kate trained.

“At some point you have to look at your horse and whether it needs a little class relief or something to get its head in front - you don’t like to dishearten them,” Kate Dalton said. “That was the thinking with Saratoga, we thought we could be a little bit clever and see if a little bit of class relief could help, which obviously it did.”

Miss Crown settled in the back of the pack for the first mile and took control coming out of the final turn, a tactic Dalton said was intentional.

“She used to run on the front as a 3-year-old and when she came 4 we started trying to ride her a little differ-ent,” Dalton said. “It took a little bit of tweaking but she seems to be really settled now, she’s quite happy to sit off the pace and come running.”

The tough-minded 5-year-old now occupies a favored position in her new home as well.

“It’s basically Bernie’s horse and I feed it,” Dalton laughed. “There are days when she’s a little bit on the tough, fresh side, but all in all, she’s really come around and she’s pretty darn nice to do anything with at this point.”

Owned by Erna Reingold Stable, Miss Crown will likely make her next start in a restricted stakes at Monmouth in the fall.

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He broke yearlings in Japan, lived for a year in Aus-tralia and spent time in Hong Kong, Italy and England. He spent the last six years in the United States riding flat horses, running a hunter show barn for Howard Wolf in Maryland, and training the odd steeplechase horse.

So O’Dwyer knows when he sees a horse he likes. The Irishman liked 5-year-old Grantor, a son of Bro-ken Vow who was struggling on the dirt.

O’Dwyer wanted to buy the big bay horse before he made his first start on the turf, but when the horse won, the opportunity closed up.

“They ran him in a cheap grass race at Colonial and he won by 7 lengths, and they didn’t want to sell him,” O’Dwyer said.

Grantor was unable to maintain his form on the more competitive Laurel oval, however, and O’Dwyer got a second shot at the horse.

He jumped on the opportunity to buy the horse for Wolf’s Caves Farm.

“I didn’t know he was going to be a jumper,” O’Dwyer admits. “I was just taking a little chance. I liked the way he moved and he had a good attitude. He was just a nice strong individual, well put together. I took a chance. You never quite know if they’re going to make a jumper or not until you put a jump in front of them.”

As it transpired, Grantor took to his new career and broke his maiden over fences in his second start. Darren Nagle kept the New York-bred settled behind the runaway pacesetter and drew away after the final fence for a 5-length score over first-time starter Good Request (Xavier Aizpuru) and Steppenwolfer (Jody Petty).

“He’s a pretty versatile horse. He can do what-ever, come from behind, or even make the running.

We’re learning more about him every time he runs,” O’Dwyer said. “The first couple of times that we ran him, we just wanted to give him a good experience and we dropped him out to the back of the field, and he loves coming from behind, he loves attacking hors-es.”

The competitive bay gelding came out of the race with a swagger to the walk that first attracted O’Dwyer.

“He was beaming with confidence,” Dwyer said, beaming with a little pride himself. “He knew he did good. He loves his job.”

O’Dwyer knows he hasn’t gotten to the bottom of Grantor. He intends to return the gelding to action August 12 in an allowance jump race at the Spa. He is optimistic about the horse’s chances.

“With every race, he keeps getting better and bet-ter,” O’Dwyer said. “Hopefully he’ll keep on getting better and better.”

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“He’s probably the nicest horse I’ve ever trained,” the trainer said. “I think he might be.”

You might classify Quiet Approval as a prodigy, an assessment McKenna would agree with. Though the 4-year-old began his career running a mile and a six-teenth on the all-weather at Woodbine, he has won two out of four starts over fences since beginning his new career for McKenna and Move Up Stable. He finished worse than second only once, in a $25,000 optional claimer at Philadelphia Park when being used up near the lead.

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Tod MarksQuiet approval leads wantan over the last in the allowance hurdle at the open House.


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5th. Training Flat. 1-1/2 Miles.1. Dalucci (Ire) 150 Dalton2. Italian Wedding L 150 Dowling3. Your Sum Man (Ire) L 150 Crowley4. Planets Aligned L 150 Aizpuru5. The Price Of Love L 150 Hodsdon6. Slip Away L 150 Young7. Dynantonia L 150 RafterMgn: 7 1/2. Time: 2:54:3/5.O: Cherry Knoll Farm. T: Janet Elliot.Gr. g. Daylami-Coigach, Niniski. Bred by Michael Pitt (Ire).

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“He dropped him right in and he travelled second and he just had a loop in his reins and the horse just settled,” McKenna said. “Then he was able to just roll on there at the end.”

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The 4-year-old Sheppard homebred, called “Parker” around the barn, didn’t goof around at Open House, running wire-to-wire in the second division of the maiden, cruising to a 1 1/2-length win over Straight To It (Aizpuru) and Salinja (Petty).

“He’s very, very immature,” Hods-don said. “He’s naughty at the start. At Middleburg, I had to have two ponies to get him to the paddock. He tries to lie down – he just gets really excited.”

Owned by Hudson River Farm, the bay gelding demonstrated that he’s per-fectly capable of focusing during a race

and Hodsdon took advantage of this ability, keeping him carefully in check on the front end and asking him for a driving finish at the wire.

“Once he’s in a race, he’s great. Once you can get him to the start and away from the drop of the flag, then he’s fine,” Hodsdon said. “He was in front at Open House because there was no pace and I just wanted to get him going because he’s kind of a galloper. You can put him anywhere, he can be in front, he can be last.”

Parker’s Project began his career on the flat as a 3-year-old, but after four races and no wins it became clear that the son of Parker’s Storm Cat might be better suited over fences.

He finished fourth in his previous start, a maiden race at Penn National in which he raced toward the back of the pack for the majority of the race and had trouble getting through late.

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Back in March, Lilith Boucher rattled off the plan for stakes-winning steeple-chaser Class Bopper.

“Run a few times on the flat, maybe take a shot and run him long on the grass at Keeneland . . . no really. Then freshen him up and try to win the Zeke Ferguson at Colonial Downs.”

Fast forward to July and Boucher looks like a prophet. She did indeed try Class Bopper on the flat – three starts including one at Keeneland – and went to the $50,000 Ferguson July 11 off a six-week layoff. In his first jump start since November, the 5-year-old blitzed seven rivals – galloping off by 10 lengths at the finish. The winner took an imme-diate lead, widened it and won easily in 4:05.58 for the 2 1/4 miles. Dr. Bloomer held second with Dark Equation third. Defending race winner and pre-race fa-vorite Slip Away scratched.

Trained by Boucher and ridden by her husband for owner Rodman Moor-head, Class Bopper rewarded his con-nections’ patience.

“I said all spring we were going to do it and it happened,” said Lilith after-

ward. “It doesn’t always work that way. More like never. Are you kidding?”

Boucher made a plan, stuck to it, and might suddenly have one of the top few young steeplechasers in train-ing. Class Bopper the flat horse opened 2010 with a fifth behind Winchester in a Keeneland allowance, moved to Pim-lico where a mile was too short (and he finished fourth) in May and then tested Colonial’s turf with a fifth in optional-claiming company.

“He had a legitimate excuse each time, but you could be real confident in his form,” said Lilith. “I sent him back to Camden (S.C.) and gave him three weeks off. We pulled his shoes and did nothing with him.”

The vacation obviously helped. Class Bopper the steeplechase horse went back to light work and pointed for Ferguson Day via a final workout at Springdale Training Center. Boucher wanted some-thing to make her horse gain confidence and nearly chose a flat race on the same day. She opted for the steeplechase,

however, and got a bonus when Slip Away scratched – though Class Bopper would have been difficult for anyone to handle.

Richard Boucher simply enjoyed the ride at Colonial.

“No one has really challenged him,” said the jockey. “Maybe they think they’ll go get him after a mile but he keeps going. He just loves it. His ears are pricked and he’s remarkable. I’m still smiling, still getting goosebumps.”

Class Bopper raced for his breeder, longtime Boucher client Mede Cahaba Stable and Stud through most of last year. The chestnut won a maiden hur-dle as a 3-year-old in 2008 and won

twice on the flat and once over jumps in 2009. Moorhead, another longtime Boucher client, bought the son of Bop when Mede Cahaba scaled back its rac-ing operation late in 2009.

The victory ended a flirtation with the race for the Bouchers. They finished second in 2006 and 2007 with Class Vantage and in 2008 and Class Shad-ow.

“It was nice to do well with Mignon because she was so supportive of us, and it’s nice to win for Rod too,” said Lilith Boucher. “He and his wife are so great and have been very good to us. I was

Susan Carter/Eclipse Sportswireclass bopper flies a fence on the way to a stakes win at colonial downs.

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• In the opener, owner/trainer Jonathan Sheppard unveilved a 4-year-old Thunder Gulch gelding in Barnstorming, who made light work of eight others in a $15,000 maiden claiming hurdle. Ridden by Danielle Hodsdon, the winner came from far back early to score by 8 1/2 widening lengths over Power Game and Jack Twist.

The winner needed 4:13.73 to cover the 2 1/4 miles and improved to 1-for-4 lifetime. The Kentucky-bred finished ninth and third on the flat for trainer Frankie Brothers at Gulfstream Park in 2009, then was sold to Sheppard. He missed more than 16 months with some foot troubles, but hinted at some-thing positive with a fourth in a Colonial maiden claimer on the flat June 21.

“He’s matured into a nice horse now that he’s 4 and he had the basics of school-ing when he was 3,” said Hodsdon, “so he didn’t run like quite as green of a horse as a first-timer normally would. We like him a little bit. I think he’ll be nice around the hunt meets in the fall. He’s very, very professional and seems to like the jumping game.”

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Ferguson – continued from page 22

colonial downs New Kent, Va. Sunday, July 11. Turf Firm.

1st. $15,000. Mdn. clm. Hurdle. 2-1/4 Miles. $25,000-$20,000 clm. price1. Barnstorming L 139 Hodsdon ...................... 8.60 .................. 5.40 ............... 3.002. Power Game L 151 Mackenzie .............................................. 4.80 ............... 4.003. Jack Twist (NZ) L 148 Nagle ............................................................................. 7.40

$2 Exacta (9-10) Paid $44.40; $2 Trifecta (9-10-11) Paid $211.604. It’s A G Man L 139 Price 5. Straightredcard 148 Slater 6. Music Tune L 143 Rafter F Lonesume Nun L 140 PettyPU Hey Mickey 148 GeraghtyPU Coupe de Ville L 148 Dalton Mgn: 8 1/2. Time: 4:13 3/5. O/T: Jonathan Sheppard. B. g. 4, Thunder Gulch-Soul of the Cat, Stravinsky. Bred by W. Bruce Lunsford (Ky.)

3rd. $50,000. Hurdle Stakes. Zeke Ferguson Memorial (grade iii). 2-1/4 Miles.1. Class Bopper 154 Boucher ...................... 11.60 .................. 5.40 ............... 3.202. Dr. Bloomer L 150 Nagle ..................................................... 17.20 ............... 7.003. Dark Equation L 150 Murphy ......................................................................... 5.40

$2 Exacta (8-2) Paid $185.00. $2 Trifecta (8-2-4) Paid $1,172.404. Divine Fortune L 150 Hodsdon5. Riddle L 146 Kingsley6. Chess Board (GB) L 142 Dalton7. Orison L 150 Mackenzie8. Jazz Dance (Ire) L 142 McWade Mgn: 10. Time: 4:05 2/5. O: Rodman W. Moorhead III. T: Lilith Boucher.Ch. g., 5, Bop-Class Vim, Class Secret. Bred by Mede Cahaba Stable & Stud LLC. (Va.)

Susan Carter/Eclipse Sportswirebarnstorming (left) gets in tight quarters with power game in the maiden claiming hurdle at colonial.


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