The family is supplied in different shades of gray, foals and mares, every successive generation builds on the tenacity and talent of the previous one. Caro comes from a derby winner (winning colors), striking Sires (Cozzzzene), Hall of Famers (Arrogate) and Breeders’ Cup champions, including classic Victor Alphabet soup and a two-time Turf Sprint Conqueror in the Racemare Mizdirection.
Although it took time to find her specialty, as soon as Mizdirection made the best of it, and in the process the apple of the eye of its owner became.
Bad luck, but happiness
Bred and owned by Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, Mizzen Mast spent the first 11 months of his racing career in France, where he won his debut as a 2-year-old in 2000 and took the group 3 Prix de Guiche at the age of 3 before he crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the shed of Fame Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bobry-Bower-Bower-Bobry-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bower-Bobry-Bower-trainer in Californië nam.
There the gray son of Cozzzzene won the degree 1 Malibu Stakes and Grade 2 Strub Stakes before he withdrew into the study. In his time with Juddmonte’s Kentucky division, he injured the will of Flotilla, winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and the 2013 group d’Esai des Pouliches (French thousand garineas); Caravel, the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Victor; And a dark gray peat specialist called Mizdirection.
Mizdirection Dam, deceptively, racing mainly in Maryland for owner-Breeder Joseph Perrotta, racing 20 times without a victory, but ended in the money in 11 of her starts. For her fourth mating, Perrotta opted for Mizzen Mast, and on 19 April 2008 an iron price of merringieeulen with a diamond -shaped spot of white (usually called a star) that narrowed into a thin line of white drip to her nose. Perrotta sent her to the yearling Yale Yale van Keeneland, where she went to Alex Solis Jr. And partner Jason Litt hammered for $ 85,000.
In the following May she was introduced in the phasig-tipton Midatlantic 2-year-olds in training sales, but despite her impressive show in the Breeze-Up show, Solis and Litt had to buy her back for $ 50,000 after she was cast or too close to the wall of her stall and therefore unable to get worse in her three. Mizdirection was again their anti -fools, so they sent her to California and the barn of Mike Puype.
Welcome to the jungle
Mizdirection came from her maternity incident with some knee lying issues, so Puype took his time with her and she had no timed training until October 2010. While she was preparing for her debut, Mizdirection was released again and her racing career was repelled.
Eventually she took the song for the first time in March 2011 and finished second in a 5 ½ Furlong Maiden Special Weight Race on the main job in Santa Anita Park. She broke her girl in her next start and took a six-follow peat race with no less than 11 ½ lengths. It was clear that Mizzen’s daughter excels on the turf, so that Puype would keep her on that surface for the rest of her career. That eye-opening victory also brought Mizdirection a new chance.
Jim Rome and his Jungle Racing stable were looking for an opportunity to resuscitate their young trip to Renpaard’s ownership. Their company would not have been as successful if the sport had hoped for radio presenter and they needed a victory to continue. After the Blowout Maiden victory of Mizdirection, he and co-owners Tom Lenner, Alan Peterson, Robert Strauss and Mic Kramek were taken on a decent ride.
Puype sent her out in Stakes Company for her next two starts and tried the Manhattan Beach Stakes on six furlongs and then the San Clemente Handicap of a mile, grade 2, both times second. Mizdirection got her first bet in the sandy blue handicap that went a mile on the grass at Del Mar and then finished third in the grade 2 Raven Run Run Stakes on the surface of the entire weather in Keeneland before completing her 3-year season with a fee on Turf in Hollywood Park. With a season of racing under her belt, the Mizzen Mast Filly had just started.
Tension and chills
For the next two seasons, Mizdirection took Mike Puype, Jim Rome and everyone who connected with her for the ride of their lives. She started with the degree 3 Monrovia Stakes on the descent of the descent in Santa Anita and then added the Clocker’s Corner Handicap and the Las Cienegas Handicap, both on the same surface, which demonstrated the skill of the Merrieve Fourse when handling the unique course. She added a second in the Great Lady M Stakes in Hollywood Park before she took a long -term break in the run -up to the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, who happened to be in Santa Anita that year.
The full field of 14 also included the Australian and European Group 1 winner Starspangled banner, but they were all not a party for the Mizdirection and her ability to handle the Downhill course of Santa Anita. With Hall of Fame Jockey Mike Smith in the saddle, she connected her time early, racing in 11one Place half a mile and then went wide into the play, horses passed on the outside and loaded in the lead in the decreasing yards of the race. It was the first win of Breeders’ Cup for Puype, Rome and Partners. Even better, Mizdirection came back for more.
In her last season on the circuit, the talented daughter of Mizzen Mast 2013 started with a new winning turn in the Monrovia and then won the grade 2 Buena Vista and the grade 3 Las Cienagas, all on Santa Anita’s descent, before he went to the east to Belmont Park for the grade 1 just a game. There she came across a yield course while she extended to a mile and met the defeat for the first time that season. Puype then trained her into another Breeders’ Cup bid in Santa Anita, where she again came across a full field.
The memorandum of Unbridled, the second place in 2012, was back, but none of the horses that stood in line against her was a match for Mizdirection. She stayed close to the leaders, went wide in turn and then used her usual late turn to win her second breeders’ cup Turfsprint with half a length. It was the last race of an excellent career, one that the Race ambitions of Jim Rome resuscitated. After her victory, Rome told the Louisville Courier Journal’s Greg Hall: “Although I am paid to be objective, I have no problem saying that my favorite athlete ever is a 5-year-old [old]Four -legged woman, who runs away as a double world champion. Viva La Miz! “
A second career abroad
Two days after she had proven again that she was the queen of Santa’s Downhill Turf Course, the Steel Gray Mare went through the auction ring at the Fasig-TipTon November sale. What might seem like a surprising decision for someone like Jim Rome, who had fallen in love with his dual-way Breeders’ Cup winner, her journey through the sales ring was a necessary choice: “The Miz ride was one of the great experiences of my life, but I wanted to see her a champion.” Rome said Rome. “It is complicated. It tears me up, but from a business point of view, and this is a company, it’s something we have to do.”
Mizdirection was sold for $ 2.7 million during the November 2013 sale to Al Shaqab Racing from Qatar. She withdrew to the Broederij in Europe and produced winners of Olympic Glory, Lope de Vega and Mehmas. Perhaps one day a racing horse will soon be produced by Mizdirection de Purple and Golden Crown of their dam.
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