Phillips Racing Partnership's Time and Motion (Tapit) and Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse (City Zip) had faced each other on two occassions–in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the GI Belmont Oaks–with Catch a Glimpse coming out on top both times. On Sunday, however, Time and Motion finally turned the tables, handing Catch a Glimpse her first loss on grass at the Graveyard of Champions in a rainy renewal of the Spa's nine-panel GII Lake Placid S. Drawn right alongside each other in posts one and two, respectively, Time and Motion and Catch a Glimpse broke in tandem, but the 3-5 favorite immediately skipped clear to take up her preferred position at the head of affairs. Time and Motion rode the rail in third just about a length off Catch A Glimpse, who carved out opening splits of :23.44 and :48.58 under a motionless Florent Geroux. Sitting chilly aboard Time and Motion until they hit the quarter-pole, Hall of Famer John Velazquez tipped out the 8-5 second-choice to make what appeared to be a dangerous bid for the lead rounding the turn for home. Catch a Glimpse found another gear in the lane and quickly put some distance between herself and her closest market rival, but Time and Motion would not be denied. The bay kept on finding to steadily close the gap in the final furlong and edged past Catch a Glimpse in the last strides for a gritty neck success.
“At the sixteenth-pole, I didn't think we were getting by her [Catch a Glimpse] but she doesn't quit,” said winning conditioner Jimmy Toner. “Catch a Glimpse is a tough filly. I didn't think we'd get by her but she did.” Cont. p3
Toner continued, “Johnny [Velazquez] said she slid out a bit at the quarter pole and was able to get her traction back in the stretch. We had to be close. Johnny rode a perfect race and did everything right. We had to keep her in contention. There's no way you're going to make up five or six lengths on a filly like Catch a Glimpse. She hits that turn and she takes off. We knew it and Johnny knew it. You have to be able to execute it and she was able to do it.”
Mark Casse, trainer of beaten favorite Catch a Glimpse, was pleased with his charge's performance despite the loss.
“She ran well, I'm proud of her,” the conditioner remarked. “She tries so hard and she runs so hard. Even Secretariat got beat here. It happens. A better filly beat her today. It's disappointing any time you lose, but she gave it her best. I'm disappointed, but not upset. I thought she put it away. She did everything right today but win.”
As for what's next for Catch a Glimpse, Casse said, “We could go to Belmont and run against colts. We said all along that she likes Keeneland. We'll see. I'm not anxious yet to run her against older fillies. She may have one or two more starts this year, take a little break and get ready for next year.”
Fourth on debut here 355 days ago, Time and Motion was third next out in Belmont's GIII Ms Grillo S. Sept. 27 and produced a wide late rally to finish a respectable fifth behind Catch a Glimpse in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland Oct. 30. Earning her diploma in her sophomore bow at Gulfstream Mar. 20, the bay followed suit with a victory in Aqueduct's Memories of Silver S. Apr. 24. Besting Saturday's GI Del Mar Oaks victress Harmonize (Scat Daddy) by a half-length when navigating nine panels for the first time in Belmont's Wonder Again S. June 5, the homebred was second by that same distance behind Catch a Glimpse in the 10-furlong GI Belmont Oaks last time July 9.
Pedigree Notes…
Time and Motion's dam Ellie's Moment, also bred and raced by John and Joan Phillips's Phillips Racing Partnership and trained by Toner, captured the Big A's Rare Treat H. in 2003 and finished second in that venue's 2002 GII Ladies H. and 2003 GIII Next Move H. Her third foal Awesome Bet (Awesome Again), who sold for $210,000 at the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale, won the Barbaro S. and was second in the GII Super Derby. She produced Moment in Dixie (Dixieland Band) the following year, who hit the board in a pair of Grade III events for these connections and earned just under $400,000. Ellie's Moment, a half-sister to MGISW Brian's Time (Roberto), is also responsible for the unraced juvenile filly Momentiempo (Medaglia d'Oro), a yearling colt by that Darley sire and a weanling filly by Tapit. She was bred back to Ghostzapper. Time and Motion also traces her lineage back to MGISW millionaire Memories of Silver (Silver Hawk), who is the dam of fellow MGISW turfer and millionaire Winter Memories (El Prado {Ire}).
Sunday, Saratoga
LAKE PLACID S.-GII, $300,000, SAR, 8-21, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:48.39, fm.
1–@TIME AND MOTION, 118, f, 3, by Tapit
1st Dam: Ellie's Moment (SW & MGSP, $291,241), by Kris S.
2nd Dam: Kelley's Day, by Graustark
3rd Dam: Golden Trail, by Hasty Road
O/B-Phillips Racing Partnership (KY); T-James J. Toner; J-John
R. Velazquez. $180,000. Lifetime Record: 8-4-1-1, $623,150.
*1/2 to Awesome Bet (Awesome Again), SW & GSP, $319,196;
and Moment in Dixie (Dixieland Band), MGSP, $398,615. Click
for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A+.[bullet ad=”darby-dan-hip-324″][bullet ad=”darbydan-shell”][bullet ad=”crupi-trained”][bullet ad=”kbif-g2g3″]2–Catch a Glimpse, 122, f, 3, City Zip–Halo River, by Irish River
(Fr). ($75,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Gary Barber, Michael Ambler
& Windways Farm; B-Branch Equine, LLC (KY); T-Mark E. Casse.
$60,000.[bullet ad=”woodstock-bred-arrived-and-thrived”][bullet ad=”warrendale-sold-congratulations-to-all-the-connections”]3–Diamond Fields (Ire), 116, f, 3, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Question
Times (GB), by Shamardal. (€55,000 Ylg '14 GOFORB). O-Mary
Slack; B-Sweetmans Bloodstock (IRE); T-Tommy Stack.
$30,000.[bullet ad=”irt-shell”]Margins: NK, 2 1/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 1.75, 0.60, 23.00.
Also Ran: Elysea's World (Ire), Outsider Art, My Impression. Scratched: Pricedtoperfection. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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