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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Mike Puype won his first Breeders’ Cup race earlier this month, and eventually doubled the number of Breeders’ Cup winners in his barn.
Mizdirection provided Puype with his first win in a Breeders’ Cup race, in the Turf Sprint, but he also now trains Calidoscopio, the Argentine import who won the BC Marathon and has remained in this country.
“I don’t know what we’re going to do with him yet,” Puype said at Betfair Hollywood Park, where he is based. “He’s a hard horse to spot.”
True, there aren’t any stakes races mirroring the Marathon – 1 3/4 miles on dirt. Calidoscopio, 9, is clearly better on dirt, a surface over which he has 9 wins in 30 starts. He is just 1 for 10 on turf.
“He’s 20 times better on dirt,” Puype said.
In addition to Mizdirection and Calidoscopio, Puype also has a promising youngster in his barn in the 2-year-old filly Home Journey, who crushed an allowance field on Friday by 8 1/4 lengths for her second sprint win in as many starts. She will make her next start in the seven-furlong, $200,000 Soviet Problem Stakes for California-bred fillies on Dec. 9, Puype said.
“That’s one of the races they added on the schedule,” Puype said, referring to the lucrative Golden State Series. “It’s a no-brainer.”
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The full sister to the mighty ZENYATTA will be racing in the 4th race at Hollywood Park on Friday with Corey Nakatani in the irons. I'll be there to see what she is all about. Letx hope she pans out and is not a bust. She has big shoes to fill and no Mike Smith leads one to think about her ability. We'll see on Friday. STAY TUNED ON THIS ONE.........
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how come no news about EBLOUISSANTE
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Why doesn't he get Porfido, some how then have a turf horse ?
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He's 9 years old. What can you do with him? That said I'm a moron for not betting him in the BC. My sole reason was that he was 9 years old.
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The man can train, gets there extremely early stays late and knows his horses, too many other trainers defer to their help, they arrive at 7-730 and ASK how each horse feels and is doing, they go get coffee and use the walkie talkie to communicate with the barn, they leave at 10 and wonder why they 1. lose 2. have horses get hurt 3. don't get new owners. Then they have the audacity to complain when other trainers have a higher win % than they do. LOL It's called laziness
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SIZZLING GOLD looks well situated. The 6yo mare has been a pro for a long time - you don't win 11 times by accident - and some of her best work has come sprinting on turf, on THIS turf course. After nearly 4 months off she came back to be a solid 3rd for $40K on this course June 2 and with that under her belt and a 2-level class drop she looks primed. Oh, that bullet :47 move here June 15 looks like a thumbs-up, too. HEAT TRAP finished full of run to get up in the final stride and in her turf sprint debut here May 19. She obviously has ability but it's first time vs.
