Speedway Stables’ Cavalieri (Nyquist-Stiffed, by Stephen Got Even) headlined the list of stakes-winning Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company graduates this past week when she captured the $100,000 La Canada Stakes (G3) by 1 ½-lengths at Santa Anita Park Jan. 19 to remain unbeaten in three career starts.
The 4-year-old dark bay filly trained by Bob Baffert was purchased by Speedway for $900,000 from the Wavertree Stables consignment at the 2023 OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training after she breezed in 20.2. (Walk Video/Under Tack Video)
“Coming into the race, with the way she has been training, we knew we were going to have fun with her,” Baffert told the Santa Anita publicity department of Cavalieri. “She is maturing, and she is a big, beautiful stout mare. If we can keep her healthy, we will have a lot of fun with her this year.”
Other OBS graduates to notch stakes wins included Stir Crazy (Vancouver (AUS)-Mentally Unstable, by Good Reward) who, rallied to a 5 3/4 length victory in the $100,000 Marie G. Krantz Memorial Jan. 18 at Fair Grounds. Owned by Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher, Stir Crazy was purchased by Angelico’s Racing for $35,000 from consignor Paul Sharp out of the 2020 OBS July Two-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale after breezing in 10.2. (Under Tack Video).
Tom Kagele and Ernest Marchosky’s Kale’s Angel (Complexity-Love Affair, by Malibu Moon) survived a stewards’ inquiry to win the $150,000 Renaissance Stakes Jan. 18 at Oaklawn Park. Kale’s Angel was purchased for $150,000 by Kagele Bros. & Peter Miller from the McKathan Bros. Sales consignment at the 2024 OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training after breezing in 9.4.
At Laurel Park on Jan. 18, Morici Racing Stable’s Ms. Bucchero (Bucchero-Give Glory to God, by Mutakddim) captured the $100,000 What A Summer Stakes, her second stakes win in a row. Ms. Bucchero was an RNA from the consignment of Nice and Easy Thoroughbreds at the 2022 OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training after breezing in 10.0. (Under Tack Video)
At Sunland Park on Jan. 17, West Point Thoroughbreds’ veteran runner Jaxon Traveler (Munnings-Listen Boy, by After Market) notched his 13th win in his 35th career start when he took the $75,000 Ft. Bliss Stakes. Jaxon Traveler was purchased for $140,000 by West Point Thoroughbreds from the Grassroots Training & Sales consignment at the 2020 OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training after breezing in 10.0. (Under Tack Video)