Full Moon Madness Tallies First Stakes Win in Tom Fool
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Full Moon Madness wins the Tom Fool Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack
Stakes-winning 3-year-olds have excelled this year for Spendthrift Farm's standout stallion Into Mischief , but as Full Moon Madness showed March 1 in the $175,000 Tom Fool Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack, the stallion's progeny are also highly effective as older horses.
Jay Em Ess Stable's homebred Full Moon Madness, a 5-year-old gelded son of Into Mischief, notched the first stakes victory of his 12-race career in taking the six-furlong Tom Fool Saturday by turning aside pacesetting Top Gunner at the head of the lane and withstanding a bid from Surveillance . After pressing an opening fraction of :22.76, he took over with a half-mile in :46.37. He hit the wire timed in 1:11.10 on a fast but tiring track, winning by 1 1/4 lengths under Kendrick Carmouche.
Favored Top Gunner faded to third.
One of the public choices after two stakes placings earlier this winter at Aqueduct, the Michelle Nevin-trained Full Moon Madness paid $8 for a $2 win wager. The gelding was also stakes-placed three years ago as a juvenile.
"He's a quirky horse. Kendrick got him to break good today, and that's the key," Nevin said.
Nevin also trained the winner's dam, By the Moon , for Samantha Siegel's Jay Em Ess Stable. By the Moon was a multiple grade 1 winner who earned more than $1.5 million.
Both Carmouche and Nevin won the Tom Fool for the second time. Carmouche previously scored in 2021 aboard the Rob Atras-trained Chateau . Nevin's prior victory came with the Trevor McCarthy-ridden Skyler's Scramjet in 2018.
Into Mischief, represented this year by such promising 3-year-olds as Barnes and Citizen Bull , has been the leading general sire the past six years. He stands for a $250,000 fee in Kentucky.