Super Majesty Makes the Grade at Churchill

She failed to attract enough pari-mutuel support to go off at odds-on for the fourth time in as many starts, but ‘TDN Rising Star’ Super Majesty took her show on the road for the first time and made it a successful trip to the Bluegrass with a front-running victory.

A $100,000 Keeneland September graduate two years ago, Super Majesty grew up nicely and was hammered down to the Solis/Litt team for $400,000 at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Florida sale. Though she did not make the races at two, the bay made up for lost time, earning her Rising Star with a 6 1/4-length success on her May 24 debut going six furlongs at Santa Anita. She overwhelmed a field of first-level allowance opponents during the summer meeting at Los Alamitos by better than 15 lengths July 5 and just failed when trying a route of ground for the first time at Del Mar Aug. 23.

Cutting back to one turn here in what was rumored to be an audition for the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly/Mare Sprint Oct. 30, Super Majesty worked her way to the front in the opening three-sixteenths of a mile and had the competition stacked out five abreast through an opening quarter-mile in :22.78. The Hollendorfer trainee was still going well enough on the turn after a half in :45.58, and though she had to be asked to do it by Alex Solis, managed to stretch away in upper stretch, began to look for the wire in the final half-furlong and held sway late. Chide had only one rival beaten down the backstretch, but accelerated leaving the turn, came out and rallied stoutly down the center of the track to be a good second.

“To have our first graded stakes win come at Churchill Downs is just amazing. It’s just incredible,” commented winning part-owner Larry Roth. “We have a great team in [bloodstock agents] Alex [Solis II], Jason [Litt] and our daughter [Jaime] who is not here, but is an integral part of the team with my wife [Nanci] and myself. It’s just incredible.”

Gins Majesty has an unraced 2-year-old filly named Flynn Bug (Sidney’s Candy), a yearling colt by Bluegrass Cat and a weanling colt by Overanalyze. She was bred back to Pioneerof the Nile.

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Saturday, Churchill Downs
DOGWOOD S.-GIII, $100,000, CD, 9-19, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:23.02, ft.
1–#@SUPER MAJESTY, 118, f, 3, by Super Saver
1st Dam: Gins Majesty (MGSW, $210,431), by Go for Gin
2nd Dam: Lemhi Love, by Royal and Regal
3rd Dam: Exciting Devorcee, by Candy Spots
J TDN Rising Star J
($100,000 Ylg ’13 KEESEP; $400,000 2yo ’14
FTFMAR). O-LNJ Foxwoods; B-WinStar Farm, LLC
(KY); T-Jerry Hollendorfer; J-Alex O. Solis. $57,660.
Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $133,860. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A.|
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2–Chide, 118, f, 3, Blame–Yell, by A.P. Indy.
O/B-Claiborne Farm & Adele B. Dilschneider (KY);
T-Albert M. Stall Jr. $18,600.
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3–Sweet Swingin, 118, f, 3, Street Sense–Honest
Answer, by Tale of the Cat. ($280,000 Ylg ’13
KEESEP). O-Jim Bakke & Gerry Isbister; B-Clearsky
Farms (KY); T-Dale L. Romans. $9,300.
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Margins: 1 3/4, NK, 1 1/4. Odds: 1.10, 5.90, 31.90.
Also Ran: Kathballu, Huasca, Street Song, Heart’s Song, I’m a Looker, All Day Alice, Zeven, Sweet Success, Pleasant Tales.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.