Chateau Totes High Expectations in Fall Highweight

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Photo: Coglianese Photos/Susie Raisher
Chateau wins the Tom Fool Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack

Michael Dubb's Chateau  will carry a co-high 131 pounds in the $200,000 Fall Highweight (G3), a six-furlong handicap for 3-year-olds and up Nov. 28 at Aqueduct Racetrack. The annual race tests all of its participants at higher weights typically seen in handicap races.

The 108th renewal of the Fall Highweight, slated as race 8, is one of three stakes at Aqueduct Sunday, along with the $150,000 Autumn Days at six furlongs on the outer turf for fillies and mares and the $100,000 Tepin for 2-year-old fillies competing at 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf. 

Last-out stakes winners Too Sexy  and Change of Control  lead the Autumn Days, while Mischievous Kiss  and Caironi , 1-2 in the Chelsey Flower, respectively, are the Tepin headliners.

Chateau, trained by Rob Atras, finished seventh last out in a Parx Racing allowance sprint under returning rider Kendrick Carmouche Sept. 13. However, the 6-year-old Flat Out   gelding boasts a tremendous record over the Aqueduct main track with a ledger of 5-2-2 in 10 starts with purse earnings of $318,443.

"He likes to run around those turns. The turns are a little sharper at Aqueduct as opposed to Saratoga or Belmont and he really seems to relish the surface. It's the perfect distance for him," Atras said.

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Chateau has enjoyed a productive 2021 campaign, posting a record of 6-2-1-1 led by a score in the six-furlong Tom Fool Handicap (G3) at the Big A in March. He followed that effort with a fourth-place finish in the Carter Handicap (G1) in April at Aqueduct and a runner-up effort in the Runhappy Stakes (G3) in May at Belmont Park.

Chateau is drawn Sunday on the rail. The sprinter is also entered as a main-track-only participant in the Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship Nov. 27 at Aqueduct.

Sir Alfred James, trained and co-owned by Norman Cash with Lola Cash, will also carry 131 pounds. The multiple stakes-placed son of Munnings   has flourished in his 5-year-old campaign, posting a record of 9-3-2-2 for purse earnings of $310,912.

Claimed for $62,500 out of a winning effort in an allowance optional claiming sprint in September at Churchill Downs, Sir Alfred James followed with a fifth in the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Stakes (G1) in October at Keeneland ahead of a close third, defeated a neck to Necker Island , in the six-furlong Bet on Sunshine in November at Churchill.

Sir Alfred James enters from a head score over graded stakes winner Long Range Toddy in a seven-furlong allowance optional claiming sprint Nov. 17 at Churchill.

Stronach Stables' homebred Green Light Go will look to recapture the form of his spectacular juvenile campaign for trainer Jimmy Jerkens. A graded winner at 2 in 2019, he has just a single victory this year—coming in an allowance optional claiming race at Oaklawn Park in April. He also finished second to Tiz the Law in the Champagne Stakes (G1) in 2019 at Belmont.

He adds blinkers and carries 129 pounds.

Smooth B , Hopeful Treasure , Wendell Fong , Rough Entry , and War Tocsin  are also entered.


Entries: Autumn Days S.

Aqueduct Racetrack, Sunday, November 28, 2021, Race 7

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Outer turf
  • $150,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 2:43 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Change of Control (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Colby J. Hernandez 125 Michelle Lovell 5/2
2 2Love And Thunder (IRE) Irad Ortiz, Jr. 120 Chad C. Brown 4/1
3 3Too Sexy (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose Lezcano 125 Christophe Clement 2/1
4 4Piedi Bianchi (IN)Keeneland Sales Graduate Javier Castellano 125 Carlos F. Martin 5/1
5 5Miss Majorette (KY) Trevor McCarthy 122 Michael Merryman 20/1
6 6Athwaaq (KY) Luis A. Rodriguez Castro 120 Lolita Shivmangal 30/1
7 7Secure Connection (KY) Dylan Davis 120 Claude R. McGaughey III 12/1
8 8Raven's Cry (IRE) Luis Saez 125 Brad H. Cox 6/1


Entries: Fall Highweight H. (G3)

Aqueduct Racetrack, Sunday, November 28, 2021, Race 8

  • Grade III
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $200,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 3:14 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Chateau (KY) Kendrick Carmouche 131 Rob Atras 5/2
2 2Green Light Go (KY) Dylan Davis 129 James A. Jerkens 6/1
3 3Smooth B (PA) Manuel Franco 126 Robert E. Reid, Jr. 8/1
4 4Hopeful Treasure (KY) Mychel J. Sanchez 128 Michael L. Catalano, Jr. 15/1
5 5Wendell Fong (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Trevor McCarthy 129 Chad Summers 4/1
6 6Sir Alfred James (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate John McKee 131 Norman L. Cash 3/1
7 7Rough Entry (FL) Luis Saez 128 Rohan Crichton 6/1
8 8War Tocsin (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Dexter Haddock 127 Uriah St. Lewis 15/1


Entries: Tepin S.

Aqueduct Racetrack, Sunday, November 28, 2021, Race 9

  • STK
  • 1 1/16m
  • Turf
  • $100,000
  • 2 yo Fillies
  • 3:43 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1She's a Mia (NY) Jalon L. Samuel 120 Cleveland Johnson 20/1
2 2Kingdom Queen (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Luis A. Rodriguez Castro 120 John P. Mc Allen 50/1
3 3Vergara (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Luis Saez 120 H. Graham Motion 8/1
4 4Tasweya (KY) Ruben Silvera 120 Michael V. Pino 15/1
5 5Louella Street (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Manuel Franco 120 Jeremiah O'Dwyer 12/1
6 6Waters of Merom (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Irad Ortiz, Jr. 120 Chad C. Brown 7/2
7 7Anador (FR) Dylan Davis 120 Christophe Clement 9/2
8 8Determined Star (KY) Kendrick Carmouche 120 Phil Schoenthal 20/1
9 9Mischievous Kiss (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Eric Cancel 122 William I. Mott 9/5
10 10Caironi (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Irad Ortiz, Jr. 120 Michael Miceli 2/1
11 11Solib (NY) Jose Lezcano 120 Rudy R. Rodriguez 20/1