Blacktype Gets First Stakes Win in Oceanport

Favored Blacktype, an impressive winner of an allowance race at Belmont Park in his previous start, rallied in the stretch to win the $158,500 Oceanport Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 31 at Monmouth Park.

It was the first stakes victory for Blacktype, who is owned by Jump Sucker Stable and trained by Christophe Clement. The 5-year-old gelding by Dunkerque out of the Anabaa mare Theorie was bred in France by E.A.R.L. Haras du Quesnay.

Blacktype, who paid $7.60 to win, rated in midpack under Joe Bravo as Nonna's Boy set fractions of :24.72 for the opening quarter-mile, :49.64 for a half-mile, and 1:14.38 on a course rated yielding after morning and afternoon rain. Kharafa, sixth behind Blackytype at Belmont, sat in fourth most of the way before making a bid for the lead, but he was nailed late by Blacktype, who won by a neck and completed the 1 1/16 miles in 1:45.64.

War Dancer and Captain Dixie rallied for third and fourth, respectively.

Blacktype won two races on synthetic surfaces in France before he was shipped to the United States in 2014. He won three allowance races on turf in New York but finished fifth in two starts grade III stakes at Belmont in 2014 and earlier this year.