Parading Took Preakness Undercard Dixie Stakes
Affirmatif Wins Three Year Old Turf – Everyday Heroes Gets Sprint
May 22, 2009
Following up his win May 15 in the first ever Pimlico Jockey Challenge, jockey Kent Desormeaux gathered in a Dixie Stakes (G2) victory on the Preakness Stakes undercard May 16 aboard six-year-old Pulpit son Parading.
Unbridled's Song daughter and Affirmed granddaughter Affirmatif, favored in the $50,000 Woodlawn Stakes turf event, didn't disappoint. She won drawing away by 2-1/4 lengths.
Three-year-old Everyday Heroes, an Awesome Again colt, remained unbeaten in four career races by winning the $100,000 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes fifty-one hundredths off the track record.
Parading Wins Fifth Turf Event
Parading is healthy again after sustaining a string of injuries, Robert Medina told interviewers. Medina assists head trainer Shug McGaughey. "...he's always been a horse we thought would be a star," Medina claimed.
Desormeaux said the horse has "stamina for days". Parading won his fifth turf race from twelve starts on the grass.
On Parade, by Storm Cat is Parading's dam. The chestnut's sire, Pulpit, is by A.P. Indy, by Seattle Slew.
Preakness Stakes Undercard Results
- $150,000 Dixie Stakes for older horses at 1-1/8 miles on turf (field of eleven) --- (1) favorite Parading in 1:48.28, by 1/2 length; (2) Just As Well, by 1-1/4; (3) Wesley
- $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff (G2) for older fillies and mares at 1-1/16 miles on dirt (field of five) --- (1) favorite Skylighter (Sky Mesa--Painted Lady, by Broad Brush) in 1:44.34, by 4-1/4; (2) Unforgotten, by a nose; (3) All Smiles
- $100,000 William Donald Schaefer Stakes (G3) for older horses at 1-1/16 miles on dirt (field of seven) --- (1) No Advantage (Posse--Prime Advantage, by Tactical Advantage) in 1:42.79, by 2-3/4; (2) favorite Ea and Real Merchant, deadheat
- $100,000 Gallorette Handicap for older fillies and mares at 1-1/16 miles on turf (field of seven) --- (1) Social Queen (Dynaformer--Gal on the Go, by Ingun) in 1:41.84, by a head; (2) All Is Vanity (Fr), by 2-1/4; (3) Tejida; (5) favorite Dynaforce
- $100,000 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes (G3) for three-year-olds at six furlongs on dirt (field of nine) --- (1) Everyday Heroes (Awesome Again--Lucette, by Dayjur) in 1:09.51, by 3-3/4; (2) Not for Silver, by 1-1/2; (3) Checklist; (6) favorite Taqarub
- $100,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap (G3) for older horses at six furlongs on dirt (field of seven) --- (1) favorite Ravalo (Mutakddim--Momentary Hope, Southern Halo) in 1:09.95, by a head; (2) Silver Edition, by 2; (3) Celtic Innis
- $50,000 Woodlawn Stakes for three-year-olds restricted at 1 mile on turf --- (1) favorite Affirmatif (Unbridled's Song--Wichitoz, by Affirmed) in 1:35.70, by 2-1/4; (2) Lonely Whistle, by a neck; (3) Heros Image
Winning Trainers and Jockeys
- Parading --- Claude R. McGaughey III --- Kent Desormeaux
- Skylighter --- Robert J. Frankel --- Julien Leparoux
- No Advantage --- Stephanie S. Beattie --- J.D. Acosta
- Social Queen --- Alan E. Goldberg --- Rafael Bejarano
- Everyday Heroes --- Tim Ritchey --- Jose Caraballo
- Ravalo --- Donald Barr --- John Velazquez
- Affirmatif --- Todd Pletcher --- John Velazquez
The famed Phipps Stable of the Ogden Phipps family owns and bred Parading. The horse has secured $405,046 in purse earnings, winning seven of seventeen career contests.
