Poindexter breeds three straight Santa Anita winners

The races were on turf and dirt, won by horses born in different states, who went off as longshots and favorites. But the winners of the first three races on Saturday’s card at Santa Anita were all bred by H. Allen Poindexter, giving the horseman a rare hat trick.

Iowa-bred Posit ($32.20), by Cairo Prince, won the day’s opening race, an optional-claiming turf sprint for fillies and mares for Reddam Racing, followed by Kentucky-bred Clivetty ($13.80), by Into Mischief, winning her maiden on the dirt for OXO Equine. Speedway Stables’ Iowa-bred Auberge ($3.20), a Palace filly favored off a graded stakes placing, rounded out the trio by winning an optional claimer for fillies sprinting on the dirt.

Poindexter, who began his stable in the early 1990s, has been a leading owner at Oaklawn Park and has ranked in the top 100 nationally by winners as an owner. He bases his broodmare band at Wynnstay Farm in Kentucky so that the mares may be bred to various Kentucky stallions. While some of the mares remain in the Bluegrass State to deliver, others are shipped out to foal in Iowa, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Oklahoma, allowing Poindexter to take advantage of various regional incentives. In recent years, his breeding program has been responsible for Canadian champion Miss Mischief, graded stakes winners Isotherm and Pataky Kid, multiple stakes winner Cool Arrow, and multiple Grade 1-placed Rowayton. Poindexter campaigned four-time stakes winner Chanel’s Legacy as an Iowa-bred homebred.

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Poindexter sold all three of Saturday’s winners as yearlings or weanlings via consignor Bluewater Sales. All three were then successful pinhooks as juveniles, two for pricey sums. Clivetty sold for $900,000 at the OBS June sale, a month after Auberge was a $570,000 purchase by Speedway at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale. The latter came into Saturday’s card off a second to Bast in the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes in January.

Roth moves quick on Trump Twitter gaffe

Dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe, famously named after a Twitter gaffe by Donald Trump, recently returned to Brad Cox’s barn to begin gearing up for her 2020 campaign. Meanwhile, co-owner Jaime Roth of LNJ Foxwoods is looking for her next social media star.

Roth regularly notes when she makes a humorous name claim via The Jockey Club for future runners. Shortly after Trump sent out a congratulatory tweet to the wrong state for the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory in the Super Bowl, Roth posted a screenshot of her name reservation for the moniker “Chiefs of Kansas.” The name was listed as under review.

Trump’s congratulatory tweet read, in part, that the Chiefs “represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well.” The Chiefs are based and play in Kansas City, Mo. There is a Kansas City, Kansas, that borders the Missouri counterpart, but the cities are divided by the state line. Trump deleted the tweet and posted a correct one with no acknowledgement of the error.