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Haveyougoneaway runs down Paulassilverlining in G2 Honorable Miss

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
NYRA/Chelsea Durand

NYRA/Chelsea Durand

by Sarah Mace

Sequel Racing’s multiple stakes winner Haveyougoneaway, added graded laurels to her resume Wednesday at Saratoga Racecourse when she won a highly competitive renewal of the six-furlong, Grade 2 Honorable Miss for trainer Tom Morley. The 5-year-old daughter of Congrats, who relocated this spring to New York from her Oaklawn Park base after a private purchase, now has two stakes wins and a stakes placing in her native state.

Out of the gate cleanly from post four of seven, Haveyougoneaway settled in fifth position three lengths off the pace under pilot Kendrick Carmouche. Paulassilverlining, favored at 7-5, was out of the gate first, but took back on the backstretch into sixth to the inside of Haveyougoneaway, leaving 16-1 Diva Express, then 10-1 Disco Chick to click off the early splits in 22.01 and 45.04.

Rounding the far turn Haveyougoneaway had only one horse beaten as Paulassilverlining advanced at the rail. Angling out four-wide into the lane, she quickly closed into second spot, after Paulassilverlining ran past leader Disco Chick in upper stretch.

Wearing down her rival down in the final furlong, a determined Haveyougoneaway got up in the final forty yards to garner the victory by a neck in a final time of 1:09.94. The rest of the field followed 12 lengths behind runner-up Paulassilverlining: Disco Chick, La Madrina, Sarah Sis, Diva Express and Bar of Gold. [VIDEO]

Carmouche, delighted by his first Spa victory, reported, “I broke good and I was sitting behind the top-four and being patient. The favorite [Paulassilverlining] came inside of me. I let her take the spot I could have been in because I knew my filly would make up the ground. It was going to make me get in the clear faster than I wanted.”

Added Carmouche, “Right past the eighth pole, I grinded a little and she really came home. This horse never really exploded like she did. That’s when I knew she would grind it out.”

NYRA/Adam Coglianese

NYRA/Adam Coglianese

Trainer Tom Morley first praised his pilot’s savvy ride, “All meet, this track has been playing so far where you need to be in the middle of the track. The rail is not the place to be. [Kendrick] angled out outside [Bar of Gold] and took dead aim at Paulassilverlining. We just got there in time.”

Morley also spoke of his mare’s continued improvement and her being ready to take on graded company. “I take nothing away from her connections previously. She’s a hard-knocking filly who won a bunch of stakes, but sometimes these sprinters start to get better around this age. She ran so well last time against New York breds that it was time to face open graded stakes company.”

Second to the accomplished Bar of Gold while making her New York debut in the Critical Eye Stakes at Belmont Park on May 30, Haveyougoneaway closed in the final furlong to win the Dancin Renee at six furlongs for New York-bred fillies and mares.

As to the future, Morley will consider the Ballerina, Bed o’ Roses at Belmont and even the Breeders’ Cup, but because she could come back to race at six, he plans to pick and choose his starts.

Morley, who was also celebrating his first graded victory as a trainer, was also vocal about Haveyougoneaway as a product of New York. “It’s very special to [win my first graded stakes] with a New York-bred,” said Morley. “I’m a huge fan of the New York-bred program. We’re breeding some seriously good horses up here. I don’t think they can be looked at as they were previously. They are good horses.”

Bred by Andy and Susan Beadnell and foaled at Bead Land & Cattle Company in Pottersville, Haveyougoneaway is the most accomplished by far of two winners out of One Wise Cowgirl, an unraced New York-bred daughter of Wiseman’s Ferry also bred by the Beadnells.

A $50,000 weanling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed sale in 2011, Haveyougoneaway brought $105,000 as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale before Champion Racing Stable, Inc. purchased her a 2-year-old for a mere $1,200 at the 2013 Keeneland November sale when she was offered as a racing or broodmare prospect.

For Champion she earned $402,425, winning the Flashy Lady Stakes at Remington Park in September 2015, and this year nearly sweeping the filly and mare sprint series at Oaklawn Park, when she won the American Beauty and Spring Fever Stakes and finished second the Carousel.

Haveyougoneaway’s record overall stands at 10 wins, four seconds and six thirds from 25 starts. Her winner’s share of the Honorable Miss $200,000 purse brings her earnings to a lofty $622,425.

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