Blessed with 3-year-old turf talent of the highest order year in and year out, it may be a mild surprise that trainer Chad Brown had never accounted for the winner of the GI Hollywood Derby. But, in the span of about 107 seconds Saturday afternoon Klaravich Stable and William H. Lawrence's Annals of Time (Temple City) changed all of that, scything his way through the field before kicking impressively clear to hand stablemate, GI Secretariat S. hero and 'TDN Rising Star' Beach Patrol (Lemon Drop Kid) a 1 1/2-length beating.
The bay, an $80,000 graduate of the 2014 Fasig-Tipton October sale, debuted exactly 370 days prior to Saturday's Grade I test, when he threw in a spectacular final sectional of :23.16 to down future graded winner Inspector Lynley (Lemon Drop Kid) going a mile at Aqueduct last Nov. 28. Gone nine months thereafter, he was a fast-finishing second, beaten a head, in a Sept. 3 Saratoga allowance and acquitted himself nicely trying graded-stakes company for the first time in the GIII Hill Prince S. at Belmont Oct. 8. Reasonably close to a modest pace that afternoon, he kicked hard in the stretch, but couldn't quite get to fellow Brown trainees Camelot Kitten (Kitten's Joy) and Beach Patrol and was forced to settle for third.
Saturday, Del Mar
HOLLYWOOD DERBY-GI, $302,415, DMR, 12-3, 3yo, 1 1/8mT, 1:47.73, fm.
1–#@&ANNALS OF TIME, 122, c, 3, by Temple City
1st Dam: Lemon Haze, by Distant View
2nd Dam: Raise a Dynasty, by Raise a Native
3rd Dam: Huggle Duggle, by Never Bend
($80,000 Ylg '14 FTKOCT). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc. & William
H. Lawrence; B-Monticule (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Javier
Castellano. $180,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-1, $289,000.
*1/2 to Sharp Sally (Posse), SW, $174,449. Werk Nick Rating: A.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.[bullet ad=”de-meric-de-meric-stables-purchase-and-graduate”][bullet ad=”demeric-congratstoallconnections”][bullet ad=”equix-optimatch”][bullet ad=”kbif-g1″]2–Beach Patrol, 122, c, 3, Lemon Drop Kid–Bashful Bertie, by
Quiet American. ($250,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV). O-James
Covello, Sheep Pond Partners & Head of Plains Partners LLC;
B-Nancy C. Shuford (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $60,000.[bullet ad=”elmtree-salesgrad”][bullet ad=”albina-private-purchase”]3–Frank Conversation, 122, c, 3, Quality Road–Rushen Heat, by
Unusual Heat. ($65,000 Ylg '14 FTKOCT; $120,000 2yo '15
OBSMAR). O-Reddam Racing LLC; B-Marc Keller (KY); T-Doug
F. O'Neill. $36,000.[bullet ad=”bluewater-shell-big-fish”][bullet ad=”crupi-trained”][bullet ad=”kbif-g1″]Margins: 1HF, HF, 1. Odds: 5.90, 3.70, 19.10.
Also Ran: Hayabusa One (Fr), Free Rose, Blackjackcat, Camelot Kitten, Revved Up, Isotherm, Diplodocus, Path of David, Defiantly. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
Drawn one from the outside in stall 11, Annals of Time was away in good order and was able to get down into about the three or four path, just to the outside of Camelot Kitten, as Blackjackcat (Tale of the Cat), third to Frank Conversation in the GII Twilight Derby Nov. 4, set an even pace to the inside of longshot Defiantly (Exchange Rate). Javier Castellano had Annals of Time settled third or fourth last for the run down the backside, and positions were unchanged by and large, but the 5-1 fourth choice was traveling sweetly on the turn, ready to pounce. Shifted out with a little less than a quarter-mile to race as Beach Patrol launched what looked to be a winning move three wide, Annals of Time jumped into the bridle and gained sharply outside of Isotherm (Lonhro {Aus}), then through the narrowest of openings between Frank Conversation and Defiantly nearing the eighth pole. With nothing but daylight ahead from that point, it was academic, as Annals of Time hit the line hard, then galloped out a mile past his rivals.
“I tried to save ground as much as I could,” said Castellano, riding Annals of Time for the first time. “I was covered up for most of the way. I give [trainer Chad Brown] all the credit for shipping out a young horse like this–a horse making only his fourth start–and shipping him to the west coast and having him ready to run a race like this. He was powerful. When I asked him in the stretch he put in a powerful kick. Very strong; very impressive. And he galloped out strong and straight. Distance will be no problem with him.”
Added assistant trainer Cherie DeVaux, “He's lightly raced, he had some minor issues to deal with before we could get him started, so he was the fresher of the three [Brown entrants]. Beach Patrol and Camelot Kitten have had really hard campaigns this year, they've been travelling and running very well. It's important for us to get the lay of the land for Breeders' Cup here next year. Chad really wanted to come, but he had a family obligation in New York.”
Pedigree Notes:
A half-brother to stakes winner Sharp Sally (Posse), Annals of Time's deeper female family includes two-time Grade I winner Hollywood Story (Wild Rush) and MGSW Seattle Fitz (Arg) (Fitzcarraldo {Arg}). Out of a half-sister to a pair of black-type performers, Annals of Time is the last listed produce for his dam and is the second top-level winner for his sire. The other, Miss Temple City, is the morning-line favorite for Sunday's GI Matriarch S. at Del Mar.
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