1/1/2010 Tropical Park Derby(G3) Fly by Phil

10th race - Calder Race Course - January 01, 2010
Race Name: Tropical Park Derby - Grade: 3

Race Type: Stakes   
Age Restriction: Three Year Old 
Value of Race: $100,000
Distance: One And One Eighth Miles On The Turf
Track Condition: Yielding
Winning Time: 1:52.89

Pgm	Horse	Jockey	Win	Place	Show
4	Fly by Phil	Eduardo O. Nunez	49.00	13.00	7.20
3	Lost Aptitude	Jon Kenton Court		2.60	2.10
8	Cat Park	Julien R. Leparoux			3.20
Also ran: 6 - Our Champion , 9 - Three Deadly Sins , 12 - Becky's Kitten , 2 - Bernie the Maestro , 1 - Gator Tiger , 5 - Sunrise Nursery , 11 - Trippo , 7 - King Prada
Scratched horses: Forty Nine Acres  (Trainer)
Wager Type		Winning Numbers		Payoff
$2 Pick 3		10-5-4 (3 correct)		4,898.40
$1 Pick 4		2-10-5-4 (4 correct)		4,088.20
$2 Exacta		4-3		135.60
$1 Superfecta		4-3-8-6		1,867.20
$2 Trifecta		4-3-8		469.20
Winning Breeder: Gilbert G. Campbell
Winning Owner: Gilbert G. Campbell
Winning Trainer: Kathleen O'Connell

 

FLY BY PHIL 거 2007 USA 흑갈색 전적:5(3/2/0)  G3	Act Of Duty 밤 2000 USA  pl 3전(0,1,0) 0 f, 0sw	Mr. Prospector 미스터프로스펙터 갈 1970 USA *+{BC} LSB 1195 f, 244sw 4.05	Raise A Native 밤 1961 USA {B} SW
			Gold Digger 갈 1962 USA {*} SW
		Nuryette 갈 1986 USA  Unr 9 f, 7 w, 3 sw	Nureyev 갈 1977 USA *+{C} LSB
			Stellarette 갈 1978 CAN  G3
	True Mood 밤 1996 USA  전(0,0,0) 0 f, 0 w, 0 sw	Deputy Minister 데퓨티미니스터 흑 1979 CAN +[C 1300] LB 1142 f, 89sw 2.83	Vice Regent 밤 1967 CAN +[I] LB
			Mint Copy 흑 1970 CAN  w
		Intimate Moments 갈 1989 USA  0 f, 0 w, 0 sw	Benefice 갈 1978 USA  G3
			Intimate Girl 밤 1981 USA  pl

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Fly by Phil Pulls Tropical Park Derby Upset
By Jason Shandler
Updated: Saturday, January 2, 2010 9:07 PM
Posted: Friday, January 1, 2010 5:25 PM
by http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/54617/fly-by-phil-pulls-tropical-park-derby-upset

Fly by Phil, a 23-1 longshot making his stakes debut, got the graded stakes season off to a rousing start when he ran down odds-on favorite Lost Aptitude in the final jump to win the $100,000 Tropical Park Derby (gr. IIIT) (VIDEO) Jan. 1 at Calder Casino & Race Course in Florida.

A Gilbert G. Campbell homebred, Fly by Phil was also making his first start on turf in the nine-furlong Tropical Park Derby, the first North American graded stakes of the 2010 Thoroughbred racing season. The 3-year-old gelded son of Act of Duty won for Calder’s leading trainer, Kathleen O’Connell.

 

Ridden for the first time by Eduardo Nunez, Fly by Phil was never too far off the pace set by Lost Aptitude, who came in as the heavy favorite for trainer Dale Romans after romping in the Grand Canyon Handicap at Churchill Downs in November. Lost Aptitude had an uncontested lead in the early going while being chased by Bernie the Maestro, Fly by Phil, and Becky's Kitten. The son of Aptitude   clicked off comfortable splits of :24.03, :50.16, 1:15.49, and 1:40.35 on the yielding going and took a half-length advantage into the stretch under Jon Court.

 

It looked as though Lost Aptitude was going to take his 10 rivals wire to wire after he continued his lead into deep stretch despite drifting out to the middle of the racetrack, but Fly by Phil never stopped tracking the leader and kept attacking from the outside, as did second choice Cat Park. Lost Aptitude and Fly by Phil were head-bobbing to the wire and it took a photo to give the edge to the longshot, who scored by a head.

 

The final time was 1:52.89. Cat Park was a length back in third.

 

“Even though I haven’t ridden this horse before, I have breezed him several times in the morning, so I know what he is like to ride,” Nunez said. “He was pretty headstrong going into the first turn, then he settled down a bit and we were actually in a perfect position on the backstretch. The favorite on the lead wasn’t stopping, so it was a matter of my horse finishing strong for me and he did.”

 

Fly by Phil raced four times as a 2-year-old in 2009, all of them on the Calder dirt. He was runner-up in his first two efforts before breaking his maiden by nearly 11 lengths Sept. 20 going one mile. On Dec. 11, Fly by Phil scored in allowance company by 2 1/2 lengths, letting O’Connell know he was ready for a stakes try.

 

“Although he had never run on turf, Mr. Campbell and I decided the timing was right and we’d give him a chance,” said O’Connell, who heads into the final day of the Calder meet ahead by two wins in her bid for her first training title. “I actually would have had much more confidence in his chances if the race had come off the turf, although this horse does have turf pedigree.

 

“We’ll look ahead now to the Sam Davis (gr. III, Feb. 13) at Tampa Bay, which has been in the plans for a while.”

 

Bred in Florida, Fly by Phil is out of the Deputy Minister mare True Mood. He now has earned $101,100.

 

The winner returned $49, $13, and $7.20 to his backers. Lost Aptitude completed an exacta (4-3) worth $135.60, and the trifecta (4-3-8) was $469.20.

Fly By Phil Scores Big Win for 2nd-Year Sire
Updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:04 AM
Posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010 9:03 AM
by http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/54617/fly-by-phil-pulls-tropical-park-derby-upset

If we had held a competition on New Year’s Eve to guess the name of the second-crop sire that would be represented first by a graded stakes winner in 2010, we suspect few would have suggested Act of Duty. In fact we wonder how many people in the game would have even recognized the name.
 
However, there was a time when Act of Duty was a high-profile individual indeed. By Mr. Prospector out of the Nureyev mare Nuryette, he was purchased as a yearling for $3.6 million by Sheikh Mohammed at the 2001 Keeneland July Sale, the fifth-highest price paid for a yearling colt in 2001. Sent to England, Act of Duty made his debut in a mile maiden at Newbury as a 3-year-old and took second, beaten just 3/4-length behind subsequent group II winner Kalaman (IRE) (who also raced as Oriental Magic). Odds-on favorite for a similar event at Newmarket on his second outing, Act of Duty finished a distant sixth and then went to the sidelines for the better part of two years. When he did reappear it was to finish last of 12 in a mile handicap at Nad al Sheba.
 
Act of Duty owns his presence at stud to shrewd Florida horseman Bill Murphy (who has bred a number of smart winners from his Elangeni Farm in Ocala). Murphy traveled to England, purchased Act of Duty, and syndicated him to stand at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala. What attracted Murphy to Act of Duty was not just his multi-million dollar looks and his early racecourse promise, but the fact that he was closely-bred half-brother to Northern Afleet  . By Mr. Prospector’s son Afleet, out of Nuryette, Northern Afleet developed into a high-class sprinter/miler at 4, and after making a bright start with his Florida crops he moved to Taylor Made Stallions in Kentucky. From his Sunshine State crops, Northern Afleet sired 2005 champion 3-year-old Afleet Alex   and 2009 Dubai Golden Shaheen Sponsored by Gulf News (UAE-I) winner Big City Man. His first Kentucky crop yielded seven stakes winners, and from his second Kentucky crop, 2-year-olds of 2009, he has been represented by the Darley Alcibiades Stakes (gr. I) victress Negligee and by Aegean, who took the Kentucky Juvenile Stakes (gr. III).
 
Act of Duty’s credentials proved sufficiently strong for him to sire a first crop that contained 57 named foals. Nine of that first crop were winners at 2 last year – placing their sire seventh among Florida freshmen – with the most promising appearing to by Fly By Phil. Bred and owned by Act of Duty shareholder Gil Campbell, Fly By Phil was beaten a head and 3/4-length in his first two starts. Given the chance to stretch out to a mile on his third outing, he took a Calder maiden by nearly 11 lengths, then returned to score a comfortable victory in an allowance race December 11 at the same track. Switched to the grass for his 2010 debut, Fly By Phil became his sire’s first stakes winner when upsetting the highly-rated Lost Aptitude January 1 in the Tropical Park Derby (gr. IIIT), closing in the final strides to score by a head.
 
Fly By Phil is the sixth foal and fourth winner for his dam True Mood, an unraced daughter of Deputy Minister. True Mood’s dam Intimate Moments (by the Damascus horse Benefice) never won, and never produced a black type horse, but she is half-sister to a notable performer in Afternoon Deelites (by Private Terms, a grandson of Damascus). Undefeated at 2, Afternoon Deelites   took the Hollywood Prevue Breeders’ Cup Stakes (gr. III) and Hollywood Futurity (gr. I) at that age. The following year, he started five times and won three, all graded, including the Malibu Stakes (gr. I). As a 4-year-old, Afternoon Deelites won only one of his four outings, but established that he had a versatility to match his talent capturing the Commonwealth Breeders’ Cup Stakes (gr. II) at seven furlongs, missing by inches when dead-heating for second in the Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) at a mile, and taking second in the Strub Stakes (gr. I) at 10 furlongs.

Act of Duty’s chances of staying a mile and a quarter look quite reasonable too. His third dam, Intimate Girl, is by Medaille d’Or (a son of Secretariat), out of a mare by Horse of the Year Ack Ack, and his fifth dam, Loyal Ruler, is by Belmont Stakes victor Gallant Man. Incidentally, Loyal Ruler is not only the third dam of Intimate Moments, and Afternoon Deelites, but also of other notable Damascus-line horse Soul of the Matter (like Afternoon Deelites, by Private Terms), winner of four graded stakes including the Super Derby (gr. I).
 
The broad cross of Mr. Prospector sons over mares by Deputy Minister has produced numerous stakes winners, the most notable being Horse of the Year Curlin, Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winner Jazil, and grade I winner Bob and John. Fly By Phil has three crosses of Northern Dancer, and in that context it’s worth noting that Act of Duty’s third dam is Nangela, a daughter of Northern Dancer’s sire Nearctic.

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