Trouble Calling (Dialed In) turned the third full black-type winner for his stakes-winning dam with a slender victory in Friday’s Lafayette Stakes on opening day at Keeneland.
No higher than the fifth betting selection in a good wagering affair, the Donamire homebred was content material to lag in direction of the again of the pack as Carson Street (Street Sense) galloped them alongside by means of taxing fractions of :21.91 and :44.47. Last to make the three-furlong pole, Trouble Calling jumped into the bridle nearing the stretch, was fanned some six or seven paths broad however remained targeted on the duty at hand and went on to prevail narrowly, denying new coach Kinnon LaRose a stakes victory together with his first-ever runner at Keeneland within the type of Oscar’s Hope (Twirling Candy).
“He’s always been a horse that had a lot of speed, so we thought we were going to be right there pretty close, but the track was not playing the best for him,” stated profitable jockey Luis Saez. “It was kind of a little deep, so he took a little while to get going, but when he saw [he was in] the clear at the three-eighths [pole], he started to get going and he finished really strong.”
Trouble Calling had positioned in 4 of his first 5 profession begins, together with a runner-up effort regionally final October and the same effort on the Fair Grounds Jan. 17 earlier than breaking by means of by higher than six lengths in New Orleans Feb. 14.
Trouble Calling is the thirty fifth stakes winner for his sire and is the forty fifth stakes winner out of a daughter of Into Mischief. His half-brother Troubleshooting (Not This Time), winner of final yr’s GI Franklin-Simpson Stakes and Keeneland’s GIII Bryan Station Stakes, is among the many entries for a cracking renewal of the GI Maker’s Mark Mile subsequent Friday.
A half-sister to the dam of turf Grade I-placed Ah Jeez (Mendelssohn), Into Trouble is the dam of a juvenile filly by Nashville, a yearling colt by the identical stallion and was most lately coated by Kantharos. The MGSW & GISP third dam priduced MSW Imagine (Giant’s Causeway) and Maximus (Lemon Drop Kid), a two-time stakes winner and champion all-weather horse in Singapore. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
LAFAYETTE S., $393,875, Keeneland, 4-3, 3yo, 7f, 1:24.03, sy.
1–TROUBLE CALLING, 118, c, 3, by Dialed In
1st Dam: Into Trouble (SW, $182,749), by Into Mischief
2nd Dam: Smooth Performer, by Benchmark
third Dam: Smooth Player, by Bertrando
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O/B-Donamire Farm (KY); T-Gregory D Foley; J-Luis Saez. $241,800. Lifetime Record: 6-2-2-1, $326,039. *1/2 to Troubleshooting (Not This Time), GISW, $1,737,806; and Big Trouble (Kantharos), SW, $372,243.
2–Oscar’s Hope, 118, c, 3, Twirling Candy–Hopeful Princess, by Not This Time. ($150,000 Ylg ’24 KEESEP). O-Michael McLoughlin; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Kinnon LaRose. $78,000.
3–Carson Street, 118, c, 3, Street Sense–Miz Kella, by Harlan’s Holiday. ($125,000 Ylg ’24 KEESEP). O-Ike & Dawn Thrash; B-Stonehaven Steadings (KY); T-Brendan P Walsh. $39,000.
Margins: HD, 4 1/4, 2 3/4. Odds: 4.70, 6.90, 4.69.
Also Ran: Arctic Beast, Star Sweeper, Knock It Off, Comport.
