Count de Monet still unbeaten after Advent upset; Tyler's Tribe bleeds a second time

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Count de Monet ran his career record to 3 for 3 on Friday when he upset 4-5 favorite Tyler’s Tribe in the $150,000 Advent Stakes at Oaklawn Park. He won by three lengths over Alto Road, while it was another half-length back in third to Tyler’s Tribe.

Count de Monet ($33.20) gave his trainer, Tom Swearingen, and his jockey, Santo Sanjur, their first Oaklawn stakes wins. Both are veteran horsemen.

The Advent, which was for 2-year-olds over 5 1/2 furlongs, was the opening day feature. It was run over a muddy, sealed track.

Count de Monet broke well from the rail and was asked to settle just behind Tyler’s Tribe as that one took the field through an opening quarter in 22.33 seconds and a half-mile in 46.11. Count de Monet was angled off the fence into the stretch, ran down the leader, and went on to cover the distance in 1:05.06.

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“The horse really responded well down the lane,” Sanjur said in a post-race interview conducted by Oaklawn.

Count de Monet, a son of Speightster, won a maiden special weight and a first-level allowance at Horseshoe Indianapolis prior to the Advent. He races for Charles Galli.

Tyler's Tribe will head to farm

Tyler’s Tribe will be getting some time off, according to his trainer, Tim Martin.

“He bled,” Martin said Friday after the Advent. “Not much. A little trickle. That’s why he started hanging down the lane, folded it up.”

Tyler’s Tribe won the first five races of his career by 59 3/4 lengths in a streak that included four stakes victories. The record sent him to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, a race in which he finished 12th. Tyler’s Tribe was found to have bled in the stakes at Keeneland, which was run Lasix-free in protocols for the Breeders’ Cup.

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Tyler’s Tribe was given time off, and worked twice at Oaklawn in advance of the Advent. He scoped clean after both moves, said Martin, who targeted the Advent for the horse in part because the conditions permitted the use of the diuretic Lasix.

Martin said in a few days Tyler’s Tribe will head to his farm in Arkansas. He co-owns the horse with Thomas Lepic.

“We’ll give him a little rest, heal him up,” said Martin.

Tyler's Tribe put up some of the year's best Beyer Speed Figures for a 2-year-old in 2022.

*Jockey Rafael Bejarano won three races on the card to lead all riders on the first day of the meet.

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