Value Proposition Part of Brown Trio in Forbidden Apple
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Value Proposition wins an allowance optional claiming race in 2020 at Belmont Park
Klaravich Stables' Value Proposition , one of three entrants for trainer Chad Brown, leads a talented field of 10 assembled for the seventh running of the $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course July 16.
In addition to Value Proposition, the four-time Eclipse Award-winning conditioner will saddle Sacred Life and Delaware in search of a first win in the one-mile inner turf test for older horses.
Value Proposition is in good form, winning a mile allowance optional claimer on the Belmont Park turf June 6. That effort followed a close third in his seasonal debut in the seven-furlong Elusive Quality Stakes April 24 at Belmont.
The 5-year-old Dansili ridgling made two attempts in graded company last year, finishing third in the Poker Stakes (G3T) in July at Belmont and eighth in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile (G1T) in September.
"He's had a few breaks in his form, but I feel that he's really matured mentally," said Brown. "Early on, he was a bit difficult to get to focus on his job. He now appears to be much more focused and confident in his works and in his last race."
Irad Ortiz Jr. will pilot Value Proposition from post 3.
Sacred Life wins the 2020 Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth Park
Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables, Wonder Stables, and Bethlehem Stables' Sacred Life (post 9, Joel Rosario) enters from a rallying fourth as the beaten favorite in the Dinner Party Stakes (G2T) May 15 at Pimlico Race Course.
The 6-year-old French-bred son of Siyouni made a pair of starts in 2019 at Saratoga, completing the exacta in both the Lure and Bernard Baruch Handicap (G2T). The talented bay captured the 2017 Prix Thomas Bryon at Saint-Cloud (G3).
Delaware (post 7, Jose Ortiz), owned by Dubb, Nice Guys Stables, and Michael Caruso, will make his Saratoga debut in his 20th career start. The 5-year-old Frankel bay, a group 3 winner in France, captured the Danger's Hour in April at Aqueduct ahead of a fourth last out in the Seek Again on May 22 at Belmont.
A threat to the Brown trainees is Augustin Stable's Corelli , third most recently in the 1 1/8-mile Monmouth Stakes (G3T) in New Jersey. The 6-year-old Point of Entry gelding ran third in last year's 1 3/8-mile United Nations Stakes (G1T) at Monmouth Park ahead of a distant fifth in the 1 1/2-mile Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) over soft going at Saratoga.
Winner of the 1 1/16-mile Henry S. Clark Stakes at Pimlico in April in his seasonal debut, Corelli will turn back to one mile for the first time in his 16-race career.
"I thought his best race on paper was the mile and a sixteenth race because he had some pace to run into," said trainer Jonathan Thomas. "I don't know that he's a real mile and three-eighths horse. He may, ideally, be a mile and an eighth horse. He does seem to like to come with a run, so what we're hoping for is to get a real pace to close into."
Corelli will exit post 2 under Manny Franco.
Other entrants include Rinaldi , Flying Scotsman , Therapist , Made You Look , Sanctuary City , and Logical Myth . All runners carry 118 pounds.
Saratoga Race Course, Friday, July 16, 2021, Race 9Entries: Forbidden Apple S. (G3T)
PP
Horse
Jockey
Wgt
Trainer
M/L
1
1Rinaldi (NY)
Luis Saez
118
H. James Bond
9/2
2
2Corelli (KY)
Manuel Franco
118
Jonathan Thomas
10/1
3
3Value Proposition (GB)
Irad Ortiz, Jr.
118
Chad C. Brown
5/2
4
4Therapist (NY)
Javier Castellano
118
Christophe Clement
8/1
5
5Made You Look (KY)
Tyler Gaffalione
118
Philip A. Bauer
20/1
6
6Flying Scotsman (KY)
Ricardo Santana, Jr.
118
Jack Sisterson
20/1
7
7Delaware (GB)
Jose L. Ortiz
118
Chad C. Brown
6/1
8
8Sanctuary City (NY)
Dylan Davis
118
James W. Ferraro
15/1
9
9Sacred Life (FR)
Joel Rosario
118
Chad C. Brown
3/1
10
10Logical Myth (KY)
John R. Velazquez
118
Joe Sharp
15/1
