 Almost Two Saratoga Graded Stakes Winners in Two Days August 03, 2009 On August 2, Lantern Hill product JUSTENUFFHUMOR not only won his stakes debut, but did so in a Grade 2 stakes race at Saratoga. He won the $150,000 Fourstardave H.-G2T by two and a half lengths, his fifth straight win in six starts for owner Darley Stable.
The 4-year-old half-brother to Champion DREAMING OF ANNA ($2,204,550) and Grade 2 stakes winner LEWIS MICHAEL ($811,714) was conceived when his dam Justenuffheart was owned by Frank Calabrese.
Justenuffheart was consigned by Lantern Hill at the Keeneland January 2005 Sale carrying Justenuffhumor, a mating recommended by Suzi Shoemaker. Justenuffheart was purchased by Greg Goodman’s Mt. Brilliant Farm LLC, breeder of the now-graded stakes winner. The resulting colt was a $550,000 Keeneland September yearling.
In the Fourstardave H., Justenuffhumor rated off the pace, handling traffic in the stretch while waiting for an opening. The Thoroughbred Daily News wrote that he “dove through a gap …at the eighth pole, drawing off in the final 70 yards to win handily.”
CAPT. CANDYMAN CAN almost made it two Saratoga graded stakes winners in two days for Lantern Hill, when he ran second in the $150,000 Amsterdam S.-G2 at Saratoga on August 3.
As has been his custom, the 3-year-old gelding was unhurried early and this time swung five wide leaving the quarter pole. Candyman split horses in midstretch and closed well to be four lengths ahead of the rest of the field, while winner Quality Road set a new track record, just two lengths the better of him. The new track record of 1:13.45 for six and a half furlongs bettered the 30-year-old track record set by Topsider (1:14.40) by almost a full second.
Capt. Candyman Can has earned almost $450,000 racing for his breeders Dr. Joe Rauch and Dave Zell. He has won three stakes (two of them graded) from five starts this year.
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