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Pricy juvenile Get Jets delivers flying finish in Saratoga debut

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
NYRA/Adam Coglianese

NYRA/Adam Coglianese

by Sarah Mace

Get Jets (Scat Daddy), for whom ownership group Team D paid a hefty $300,000 last April at the OBS spring two-year-olds in training sale, delivered an extremely impressive debut performance at Saratoga Racetrack on Wednesday, taking a six-furlong New York-bred special weight by 4-plus lengths following an explosive finish from off the pace.

Well-bet for his unveiling for trainer Tony Dutrow to final odds of 5-2, second choice in the field of seven, Get Jets got out of the gate from post position one in good order and settled in sixth early for the first quarter mile, as Love That Jazz led the way through a 22.46 fraction.

Picking up the pace around the far turn under jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., Get Jets advanced rapidly into second in the three path by the top of the lane as the half-mile was run in 45.90. The chestnut colt then made up ground hand-over-fist in upper stretch, gained the lead with less than a furlong to go, and kicked clear to a 4 1/2-length victory in a final time of 1:10.22 geared down. Love that Jazz finished second, followed across the line by Extinct Charm. [VIDEO]

Tony Dutrow said he was not surprised that that the colt ended up assuming a closer’s role. “I did [expect him to come from off the pace]. He breaks very well, he’s always broke very well, but he’s not fast away from there. I would have been surprised if he’d have shown any speed. I didn’t think we were going to see that.”

Dutrow added, “I was hesitant to run him three-quarters of a mile but he was training so good with a couple other colts that had run in open company very good here that I knew there wasn’t going to be much of a downside. So I ran him three-quarters of a mile but he wants further. He finished full of run. He’s got pedigree. That’s what he wants. He wants to go further.”

The conditioner added that he gave no instructions to his jockey. “Irad had been on him a couple times so he knew him, so I really didn’t have anything to tell Irad that he didn’t already know. So I didn’t say a thing.”

Bred by Pat Pavlish and foaled at Akindale Farm in Pawling, Get Jets fetched a gaudy $300,000 price tag at OBS April after a relatively slow furlong breeze in 11 seconds flat. Consigner Cary Frommer had purchased the colt for $162,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred sale in Saratoga. After the OBS transaction Frommer said, “When I saw him as a yearling, I just felt like he was the real deal. He just caught my imagination and I just loved him and I told the people that were with me as a group and they all agreed and they bought him.”

Although the breeze time concerned Frommer, she reported at the time, “The key was he got going midway through the breeze and people could see that on the tape and then he just kept going. He galloped out as good as any horse at the sale that day and a lot of the other days, too. He had a beautiful video and he kept going and he wouldn’t have blown out a match when he was done. He just walked home flat footed, nice and not even breathing heavy.”

The colt is the first winner for his dam Sunny, a winning daughter of Dixieland Band and a half-sister to multiple stakes Winner Wake Up Kiss and two other stakes performers. Wake Up Kiss is dam of $3.4 million dollar New York-bred earner and Grade 1 winner in Japan A Shin Forward. Also appearing in female family are Grade 1-winning millionaires Dare and Go and Go Deputy, and sire Quiet American.

 

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