The story is known, trainer Mike Maker goes to Kentucky Downs with a peat marathoner, often one that he claimed, and runs away with a victory in class 2 KTDF Kentucky Turf Cup Invitational Stakes. Five times it happened from 2015-22, and now the winning trainer in the history of Kentucky Cup has extended his count to six.
Ole Crazy Bone was responsible for extending the record of maker on 6 September and registered a mild 6-1 upset in the $ 2,496,667 million race only 2 1/2 months after Maker Claid the 5-year-old Ghostzapper Ruin at Churchill Downs Downs at the end of June. Between his acquisition and the Kentucky Turf Cup, he was a troubled, fast-closing second in the Kentucky Downs Preview Turf Cup Stakes 3 August in Ellis Park on a shorter 1/4-mile distance.
The extra quarter miles proved exactly what Ole Crazy Bone wanted. He stored the extra land under reigning Eclipse Award-winning Rider Flavien Prat, he moved corruption on his way to beating Graded Stakes Winning Runner-Up Tawny Port with 3/4 lengths. The winner continued from a stalking position behind fractures from: 24.20 ,: 48.87, 1: 12.89, 1: 36.61 and 2: 00.75 to complete 1 1/2 Miles in 2: 24.72 on a course rated well but still quite quickly. He paid $ 15.50 to win.
With the Kentucky Turf Cup part of the Breeders ‘Cup Challenge “Win and You’re in” series, Ole Crazy Bone earned an automatic, paid berth in the $ 5 million Breeders’ Cup Turf November 1 in Del Mar.
“(The owner) is already shouting Breeders ‘Cup when I called him. I think that’s the direction we’re going,” said Maker, a winner of three Breeders’ Cup races but never in the turf.
All-sources wagged on the Kentucky Downs card on Saturday $ 25.3 million, with a new track record.
Prat said he was uncertain how much run ole crazy bone left late, but after his mountain cable had gone into the piece of leads: “He really went and went really and went on and got the job,” said Prat.
Corruption held for the show, the preference Fort Washington ran a wide and finished sixth.
Bred by Adena Springs in Kentucky from the Stakes placed Smart Strike Mare Southern gem, Ole Crazy Bone noted his first effort victory of his 19-race career after three previous stake places. In addition to the Kentucky Downs Preview Turf Cup for maker and owner Jay Provenzano’s Flying P Stable, he was third earlier this year in John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes in Sam Houston Race Park and second in the 2024 Texas Turf Classic Stakes for trainer Bret Calhoun.
Maker noticed the good condition in which Ole Crazy Bone arrived in his stable and simply said that the horse fits the profile of what he often looks in a claim.
“I wanted a horse that looked like he would appreciate one and a half miles. We had the race with Ellis in mind, and of course this race,” said Maker.
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