Stewards leave Buy Land and Sea up after roughly run M.P. Ballezzi Appreciation Mile

Buy Land and See ($15.20) survived a stewards’ inquiry and several jockey objections before being declared the winner of Tuesday’s $100,000 M.P. Ballezzi Appreciation Mile for 3-year-olds and upward at Parx Racing.

The M.P. Ballezzi Appreciation Mile was the co-feature on Tuesday’s program along with the $100,000 Jump Start for Pennsylvania-bred or -sired runners at seven furlongs.

The Ballezzi Appreciation Mile was a roughly run affair from the start as Buy Land and See ducked out entering the first turn. This caused Dontmesawithme to bang into Far Mo Power and Thomas Shelby.

Meanwhile, Ridin With Biden, the winner of the Grade 3 Greenwood Cup at 1 1/2 miles on Sept. 24, was hustled from the far outside post position to make the lead and the rail.

He immediately faced outside pressure from Thomas Shelby, however, and those two blazed the way through fractions of 23.73 and 46.56 seconds with Buy Land and See tucked in a comfortable tracking position in third.

Jockey Mychel Sanchez could have asked Buy Land and Sea to make a three-wide sweeping bid around the two pacesetters entering the second turn but decided to squeeze through inside of them. He checked and forced rail-skimming New Commission to do the same.

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Buy Land and See eventually split Ridin With Biden and a tiring Thomas Shelby, made the lead turning for home, and had plenty left to fend off New Commission by 1 1/4 lengths. He completed the mile over a track newly upgraded to fast in 1:38.38.

It was another 2 3/4 lengths back to Logico in third. Then came Far Mo Power, Ridin With Biden, Amatteroftime, Dontmesawithme, Senior Investment, and Thomas Shelby.

The stewards immediately posted the inquiry sign concerning the incident in the opening furlong, then New Commission’s rider, Jeremy Laprida, claimed foul regarding the traffic jam at the three-eighths pole. Far Mo Power’s jockey, Dexter Haddock, also claimed foul against the winner.

After several minutes of deliberation, the race was declared official.

Buy Land and See, trained by Guadalupe Preciado for owner-breeder Joseph Imbesi, is now a stakes winner on dirt and turf. He had previously captured the With Anticipation at Penn National and the Alphabet Soup at Parx. Both races were turf routes restricted to Pennsylvania-breds. The M.P. Ballezzi Appreciation Mile was Buy Land and See’s first-ever start on a fast main track.

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Jump Start Stakes

Favored Beren ($5.40) earned his seventh stakes victory when he led the field from start to finish in the Jump Start.

Trained by Butch Reid for St. Omers Farm and Christopher Felfarek, Beren failed to set the pace in his prior two starts when facing archrival Fortheluvofbourbon, but there was no such foe to keep him from early dominance Tuesday.

Frankie Pennington sent Beren to the top and they carved out fractions of 22.63 and 45.20 while chased by stablemate Smooth B and a pocketed Final Shot.

Beren always traveled better than Smooth B, put that one to bed for good in upper stretch, and drove under the wire 3 1/4 lengths better than runner-up Prince of Rain after 1:22.83.

Smooth B was another half-length back in third. Then came Final Shot, Wait for It, Eagles Cry, and Bourbon Music. Midtowncharlybrown, Uncle Ernie, Like a Saltshaker, Vine Jet and Dr. Steve scratched.

Beren previously finished fourth, beaten 8 3/4 lengths, in the Parx’s Liberty Bell on Oct. 3. Reid told Daily Racing Form late last week that the colt didn’t appreciate the sealed, sloppy surface.

A 4-year-old son of Weigelia, Beren has now won 9 times from 21 starts for earnings of $691,060.

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