Eightyfiveinafifty, Maiden Win($40,000) at Aqueduct(01/09/2010)(6F, 1:10.85)

2nd race - Aqueduct - January 09, 2010
Race Type: Maiden Special Weight
Age Restriction: Three Year Old 
Value of Race: $40,000
Distance: Six Furlongs On The Inner track
Track Condition: Fast
Winning Time: 1:10.85

Pgm	Horse	Jockey	Win	Place	Show
5	Eightyfiveinafifty	Jorge F. Chavez	2.70	2.10	2.10
3	Avenging Spirit	David Cohen		3.00	2.90
4	Winaholic	Richard Migliore			4.10
Also ran: 8 - Hot Pursuit , 7 - Bojan , 2 - Upper Afleet , 6 - Departures
Scratched horses: Freshman Dorm  (Trainer) , He's a Scrooge  (Trainer)
Wager Type		Winning Numbers		Payoff
$2 Daily Double		2-5		41.80
$2 Exacta		5-3		6.50
$2 Quinella		3-5		5.00
$2 Trifecta		5-3-4		21.60
Winning Breeder: A. Lakin & Sons & James Kintz
Winning Owner: Moirano, Team Stallion Racing Corp., Lerner, Contessa, McConnell Racing Stable
Winning Trainer: Gary C. Contessa

EIGHTYFIVEINAFIFTY 수 2007 USA 갈색 전적:2(1/0/1)  w	포리스트캠프 FOREST CAMP 흑 1997 USA {1200m} G2 11전(4,2,0) 339,984 USD 48 f, 0sw 1.35	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
		La Paz 라빠즈 갈 1988 USA {1300} SW 13 f, 5 w, 2 sw	Hold Your Peace 갈 1969 USA [I] G1
			Classy Craft 흑 1979 USA  SW
	Lifeinthefastlane 회 1999 USA  pl 4전(0,0,1) 2,970 USD 1 f, 0 w, 0 sw	Unbridled's Song 언브라이들송 회 1993 USA {1600} G1 855 f, 61sw 2.04	Unbridled 갈 1987 USA [I] G1
			Trolley Song 회 1983 USA {1800} w
		Inthefastlane 흑 1992 USA  SP 0 f, 0 w, 0 sw	Once Wild 갈 1985 USA {1288} G2
			K. A. Party 흑 1981 USA  w

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Contessa has big plans for Eightyfiveinafifty   
David Grening, Daily Racing Form   1/11/2010 
by http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news&id=44194 

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Can a legitimate Kentucky Derby candidate emerge from the frozen tundra that is Aqueduct in the winter? Trainer Gary Contessa hopes so.

Eightyfiveinafifty, who won a six-furlong maiden race over the inner track Saturday by 17 1/4 lengths while earning a 105 Beyer Speed Figure, will try to make it to Louisville via Queens. Eightyfiveinafifty will make his next start Feb. 6 here in the $100,000 Whirlaway Stakes - a two-turn race at 1 1/16 miles - followed by the Grade 3, $250,000 Gotham on March 6, and, if worthy, the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial over Aqueduct's main track on April 3.

"The Whirlaway I think will be a very easy race for him," Contessa said Monday by phone from his home in upstate New York. "Then we have our chance in the Gotham to get plenty of graded money to get in the Derby."

Contessa said last week that he took stalls at Gulfstream Park this winter with Eightyfiveinafifty in mind. But Eightyfiveinafifty, who last Aug. 1 finished third in his debut to eventual Hopeful winner Dublin, injured a hock in the fall and Contessa did not ship the horse south as originally planned. Contessa believes it takes a horse about a month to acclimate to Florida and he said now the horse just doesn't have that time. Contessa could have pointed Eightyfiveinafifty to the seven-furlong Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream on Feb. 20 followed by the Florida Derby on March 20.

"I think he could win the Hutcheson no question, but then his first chance going two turns is going to be against killers in the Florida Derby," Contessa said. "He seems to like Aqueduct, he doesn't mind the cold. I'm going to stay in New York and take this route and see what comes."

Eightyfiveinafifty, a son of Forest Camp - who never won beyond six furlongs - was visually impressive Saturday, making the lead soon after the start under Jorge Chavez, turning back some mild pace pressure from the heavily bet Avenging Spirit, then opening up around the turn and into the stretch. Eightyfiveinafifty ran six furlongs in 1:10.85 with Chavez taking him in hand and looking back for the competition the way he used to when he rode Beautiful Pleasure a decade ago.

"It's rare to have a horse this good in your barn and when you're the only one that knows how good he is and you keep telling people," Contessa said. "We've all had horses that we thought were great horses and were suddenly very average. I didn't want that to be the case. I'm glad I'm right."

Ordinarily, Contessa would sell a horse like Eightyfiveinafifty. Throughout his career he has sold young horses, most notably Peace Rules, who finished third in the 2003 Kentucky Derby and who won three Grade 1 stakes and more than $3 million for Edmund Gann and Bobby Frankel. Contessa owns Eightyfiveinafifty with his wife, Jennifer, and several partners who have told Contessa they want to keep the horse.

"I want to keep him," Contess said. "I never trained a horse of this magnitude. For all the horses I sold - big-ticket horses Peace Rules, National Pride, Citrus Kid - none of them are in the same class or category as this horse from a training standpoint.

"I have Derby fever off what I saw the other day, absolutely. Interestingly enough I have a group of owners who would like to go for the ride."

Contessa said he has already had significant offers for the horse, but believes it will take another effort akin to Saturday's before he and his partners would get an offer they couldn't refuse.

"He's by Forest Camp - I don't think anybody in the world would give me $2 million off his maiden win," Contessa said. "He'll have to do it again. I have no doubt in my mind he'll go two turns. I think he could very well be the big horse."

New York Watch: Eightyfiveandfifty
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Locally-based trainer Gary Contessa trains hundreds of horses and has been the leading trainer in New York for four consecutive years.

His stables are home to everything from bottom-priced claimers to high-priced stakes horses, but it’s a recent maiden winner who has him talking Kentucky Derby.

After saddling Eightyfiveinafifty to a 17 ¼-length maiden win over the inner track in this past Saturday’s second race, Contessa says he has a case of Derby fever.

And he’s made it perfectly clear that his horse isn’t going anywhere.

“After thinking about it for three or four days, I made a decision that might be debated, but I’ve decided to leave him in New York,” Contessa said. “He’ll run in the [$100,000] Whirlaway [on February 6] and then the [Grade 3, $250,000] Gotham [on March 6] and we’ll see from there. He loves the inner dirt, trains on it, and has a huge home track advantage.”

Contessa was very confident leading up to Eightyfiveinafifty’s most recent race following a very solid career debut this summer at Saratoga Race Course where he finished 4 ¼ lengths behind next-out Grade 1 winner, Dublin.

“His race on Saturday was exactly what I expected – an overpowering performance,” Contessa said. “I said before the race that he was a Derby horse. When you race a Derby horse in a maiden race in the dead of winter at Aqueduct, he’s supposed to win like that.”

Eightfiveinafifty’s final time of 1:10.86 was far and away the fastest six-furlong race of the weekend. Excluding claiming races, there were five other six-furlong events run Saturday and Sunday including three maiden special weights, one allowance, and one stakes race. The average final time for those five races was 1:13.83, nearly three seconds slower than Eightyfiveinafifty ran.

The 3-year-old son of Forest Camp earned a 105 Beyer Speed Figure for his efforts – the highest figure by any horse in the country so far in 2010.

The main question now: Will Eightyfiveinafifty get two turns?

“Horses prove trainers wrong all the time,” Contessa said. “But I would bet that this horse will get two turns. Watching him in the mornings, I get the impression that he’ll run all day – he never gets enough. When he’s done galloping in the morning, it’s all the rider can do to pull him up. If I breeze him five-eighths, it’s at least a mile before he gets pulled up. He has a lot of gears.”

For Contessa, a master of the claiming game in New York, not only is Eightyfiveinafifty his hope at reaching his first Kentucky Derby, he could be the horse of a lifetime.

“He is the best horse I’ve ever trained,” Contessa admitted. “I said that even before he ran. I’ve won Grade 1’s and Grade 2’s, but this horse is the most talented horse I’ve had. Now, that doesn’t mean he’ll be the greatest horse I’ve trained – he has to achieve his greatness. A big part of being a great horse is staying sound, and that’s the most important thing we’re trying to do – keep him sound. If we can do that, I really think he will far eclipse any horse I’ve trained in terms of achievements.”