I Got It All dominates Springfield

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The move from a dirt sprint to a Polytrack mile did nothing to slow I Got It All, who asserted his preeminence among Illinois-bred 3-year-olds with a 9 1/4-length romp in the $100,000 Springfield Stakes on Saturday at Arlington.

I Got It All flopped in his career debut last summer at Arlington, his only start on Polytrack, but trainer Tom Swearingen long has held that disruptive circumstances in the starting gate threw I Got It All off his game, and that the gelding would handle a synthetic surface. Not just that, but Swearingen also predicted that I Got It All would stretch out from sprint distances, that his good mind would allow him to settle and respond to a rider’s commands, not just race fast and near the front end.

The entire forecast came to pass in the Springfield, where I Got It All and regular rider Emanuel Cosme settled quickly and comfortably into fourth place as Rambling Richie, Flashdance Road, and Easy Solution knocked out an opening quarter-mile in 23.29 seconds and a half in 47.22. Cosme let I Got It All creep into serious contention around the turn, and when I Got It All made his move in earnest, it was all over.

“He just broke and relaxed,” Cosme said. “As soon as I asked him to run at the quarter pole, he just took off. We’ve been working with him in the morning. We know he can go long. When I passed the last two horses, he was just playing with them, waiting.”

I Got It All did not run especially fast, getting his mile in a modest 1:39.18, but he was geared down long before the wire, and Arlington’s main track was not producing quick times Saturday. Prado U rallied along the rail to finish a distant second, with Flashdance Road holding third.

I Got It All paid $7.80 to win, adding the Springfield win to his victory last month at Hawthorne in the Land of Lincoln Stakes. I Got It All is a son of Tiz Wonderful–Polish Silk who’s owned by a partnership that includes Swearingen.

“This horse has a wonderful mind, and he’s easy to teach. When you have one that’s talented like this and he’ll use his mind to his benefit, it’s a real pleasure,” Swearingen said.