Mine Over Matter collects show in G3 Fall Highweight after stumbling start

by Sarah Mace

Making his graded stakes debut in the company of four other tough veterans, Chester and Mary Broman’s Mine Over Matter managed to overcame a bad stumble at the start to finish third in Aqueduct’s traditional Thanksgiving Day feature, the Grade 3, $150,000 Fall Highweight Handicap.

Unbalanced as he broke from post four for the six-furlong dash and stumbling to his right, Mine Over Matter, collected himself at the rail under jockey John Velazquez while racing in fifth, as This Ones for Phil clocked a blistering first quarter in 22.57, chased by Repole Stable’s Caixa Eletronica. Willy Beamin tracked in third in the three path.

Mine Over Matter moved up into fourth going into the turn, then captured third at the quarter pole while This Ones for Phil completed the half in 44.84.

In the final sixteenth, Caixa Eletronica, toting the 133-pound co-highweight, overtook the pacesetter before kicking away to a four-length victory in 1:08.69. Mine Over Matter finished 4 1/2 lengths behind This Ones for Phil. Small Town Talk and Willy Beamin completed the order of finish.

Five-year-old Mine Over Matter has spent 2012 under the care of Mike Hushion, who took over training duties upon the retirement of trainer Ramon “Mike” Hernandez last December at age 86.

Winner of Aqueduct’s Fabersham Stakes with a last-to-first run in the slop on April 22 in his second 2012 start, Mine Over Matter captured the Hudson Stakes on Showcase Day, overtaking odds-on favorite Saginaw.

Also this year, the chestnut has collected a pair of third-place finishes in the Affirmed Success at Belmont and John Morrissey at Saratoga. In 2010, he scored a victory in the Salute Me Sir and in 2010-2011 placed in five additional state-bred stakes. Mine Over Matter’s record now stands at 6-3-10 from 35 starts with a robust $383,184 in earnings.

Mine Over Matter’s dam is Hansel’s Girl, a Grade 2-placed five-time winner by Hansel (Woodman) purchased by Chestertown Farm in 1996 as a Keeneland September yearling for $80,000.

After earning $237,980 for the Bromans on the racetrack, Hansel’s Girl has had a productive career as a broodmare, with four winners from four starters including two more stakes horses – Chestertown Slew, by Seattle Slew ($171,826), and Motor Patrol by Cherokee Run ($148,633). Hansel’s Girl currently has a yearling filly by New York sire Noonmark.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2012/11/22/mine-matter-fall-highweight/

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Discreet Marq wires Lie Low at long odds, Heart of New York completes exacta

by Sarah Mace

Given no better than a 17-1 chance in the contentious field of eight 2-year-old fillies lined up for Thursday’s $80,000 Lie Low Stakes at Aqueduct, Patricia Generazio’s homebred Discreet Marq took the field wire-to-wire, while post time favorite Heart of New York completed an exacta of grey New York-breds.

Quickly into stride under Eddie Castro from post six, Discreet Marq gained the lead by the time she passed under the wire for the first time, then moderated the pace to a 49.37 half-mile after a 24.45 first quarter.

Keeping a comfortable margin down the back stretch run, Discreet Marq was asked for more at the top of the lane when Mariel N Kathy came calling. Discreet Marq dug in to get her first stakes victory by 1 1/4 lengths for trainer James Ryerson. Heart of New York, making a second career start after an electrifying last-to-first run in her debut, closed rapidly to get a head in front of Mariel N Kathy for the place. After three-quarters in 1:13.68, the final time for the mile over the firm Aqueduct turf was 1:37.64. The New York-bred exacta paid $171.50 for a $2 wager.

Discreet Marq broke her maiden by 4 1/2 lengths second time out, running 5 1/2 furlongs on firm turf at Saratoga in 1:02.91 for a Beyer Speed Figure of 80. Moving straight into stakes competition, the grey ran third in the open Voodoo Dancer Stakes at Belmont to two of Thursday’s rivals (New York-bred Flattermewithroses and Coconut Shrimp), then traveled to Laurel Park where she finished fourth by two lengths in the Selima Stakes on October 27. Her record now stands at 2-0-1 in five tries with $98,400 in earnings.

Foaled at Keane Stud[2] in Amenia, Discreet Marq is a daughter of Discreet Cat out of the multiple stakes-winning Marquetry mare To Marquet ($198,236). She is the mare’s first stakes winner, but To Marquet has also produced two successful stakes performers on turf.

Stakes-placed Marquet Cat, a 7-year-old gelded son of Cat Thief, has earned $376,049 from 53 starts, most recently finishing third in the race following the Lie Low on Thursday. Stakes-placed Marquet Madness, a 5-year-old filly by Pico Central (BRZ), has earned $226,994.

To Marquet’s most recent reported foal is a yearling colt by Bluegrass Cat.

 

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2012/11/22/discreet-marq-lie-low/

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