Doin’ittherightway cuts back in distance and scores in Monday’s Tin Cup Chalice at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.
By Tom Law
Doin’ittherightway became Revolutionary Act’s seventh winner when he won a two-turn maiden at Finger Lakes and 20 days later became the Boston Harbor mare’s third stakes winner with a victory in the $50,000 Tin Cup Chalice at Finger Lakes.
Doin’ittherightway followed up his 2-length maiden win going 1 mile and 40 yards Oct. 20 with a victory by the same margin in the 6-furlong Tin Cup Chalice. Kevin Navarro rode the 2-year-old Super Saver gelding, rating off the pace while the trio of eventual runner-up I Found It, Price of Admission and Kenny Hustle battled for the lead up the backstretch. Doin’ittherightway won in 1:13.21 over the sloppy track.
Bred by Kindred Racing Stable Inc. and a $30,000 weanling purchased as Hip 1638 by Windylea Farm at the 2019 Keeneland November breeding stock sale, Doin’ittherightway improved to 2-for-5 with three thirds in the Tin Cup Chalice. He was foaled at Hidden Lake Farm in Stillwater.
Sent off the 9-2 fourth choice in the field of five reduced by the scratch of Cut the Cord, Doin’ittherightway and Navarro raced third while I Found It clicked off the opening quarter-mile in :22.80 over the wet track.
I Found It, a winner over Kenny Hustle in an open-company maiden special weight Sept. 21 at Finger Lakes, edged clear of first-time starter Price of Admission around the far turn. Kenny Hustle took the first run at the leader near the 3/8ths pole before he was turned away and I Found It hit the half-mile mark in :46.80.
I Found It turned for home in front with his early chasers backpedaling while Navarro kept Doin’ittherightway several paths off the inside while making a long, sustained run. Doin’ittherightway took command just after I Found It passed the 5-furlong mark in :59.83 and drew off late.
Doin’ittherightway is the 11th foal out of Revolutionary Act, a multiple stakes winner who earned $146,861 racing primarily on the Kentucky circuit in 2004 and 2005. She’s the dam of stakes winners Night Party ($287,223) and American Act ($239,717) along with the stakes-placed Summer Revolution ($328,590), and the winners Dixie’s Rebellion, Shogun Samurai and Dark Ops.
Doin’ittherightway is the mare’s second New York-bred, following the now 3-year-old Gemologixt filly Yankee Agate who has placed three times in four starts at Tampa Bay Downs and Canterbury Park to post earnings of $19,080 through Monday.
