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Grade 1 maiden civil liberties He’ll graduate in type on the Grade 2, $750,000 Wooden Memorial Ceremony on April 4 in Suidobashi. The nine-furlong take a look at for sophomores awards Kentucky Derby qualifying factors of 100-50-25-15-10 to the highest 5 finishers.
Civil Liberty, out of the Nice Associates steady and educated by Mark Davis’ Doug O’Neal, will go the additional mile on March seventh at Santa Anita, ending second by a six-furlong margin. His sire, Independence Corridor (14:5-2-1, $881,500), gained the 2019 Nashua Stakes (G3) and 2020 Jerome Stakes in Large A.
“That is undoubtedly our objective,” O’Neill stated of the Wooden monument. “He is appearing like the space would not matter in any respect. It did not matter to his pops. His dad may run that distance. We’re excited for him.”
The preliminary listing of Wooden Memorial horses contains Bravalo (Safie Joseph Jr.), Civil Liberty (Doug O’Neal), Specific Child (Justin Evans), Iron Honor (Chad Brown), Napoleon Solo (Chad Summers), Ottinho (Chad Brown), Crimson Zone Runner (Hugo Padilla) and Discuss to Me Jimmy (Rudy Rodriguez). Nominations for the a hundred and first Wooden Memorial Award shut on Saturday, March twenty first, and entries will probably be accepted on Sunday, March twenty ninth.
Civil Liberty misplaced the primary two races of her profession to the well-regarded Brant, after which completed second in her debut dash of 5 and a half furlongs at Del Mar in July, and completed fourth with Intrepid, who finally gained the American Pharoah Stakes (G1), three and a half lengths forward of third-place Balboa.
He parlayed that effort right into a 4 1/4-length third-place end within the Del Mar Futurity (G1) in September, and finally shot for the litmus take a look at honor of successful the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2).
Civil Liberty completed her younger season with a 6 1/2-length fourth place within the 1 1/16-mile American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita, incomes her two Kentucky Derby qualifying factors.
On March 7, he returned with a powerful six-and-a-half furlong maiden dash at Santa Anita, however disputed Decisive Win’s early tempo and missed out by a large margin, ending second to Crude Velocity, a $250,000 sale buy horse educated by Corridor of Fame member Bob Baffert on the Nationwide Museum of Horse Racing. The 9 horses included a number of big-ticket gross sales and purchases and 7 Triple Crown contenders.
“It was an excellent effort,” O’Neill stated. “He ran a successful race in a powerful maiden area. I am very pleased with him. He got here out of this race in nice form.”
Independence Corridor’s darkish bay introduced $160,000 on the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old coaching sale, the place he labored 10.3 seconds.
O’Neill stated there was quite a bit to love about civil liberties within the sale.
“He was very athletic. He was an average-sized stallion with a really lengthy attain,” O’Neill stated. “He was by Independence Corridor and appeared like an actual athlete. As we all know at Sale, it is scientifically inaccurate, however he appeared the half, and thank God he turned out to be the half.”
“He was excellent,” O’Neill added. “We’ve seen lots of constructive issues for him since he went over half a mile and we’re actually excited for him.”
Civil Liberty is out of the Tiznow mare Love and Respect and is a half-sister to graded stakes winner Misbehavior. He earned $84,000 with a document of 4 wins, 0 wins, and 1 draw.
