Graded Status Restored for Cecil B. DeMille
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Term of Art becomes a grade III winner for Calumet Farm
The American Graded Stakes Committee announced Dec. 1 it will reinstate the grade III status of Cecil B. DeMille Stakes, which had been forced off Del Mar's turf track to the main track due to rain.
Turf stakes are automatically downgraded one level when they are taken off the grass, so the one-mile Cecil B. DeMille was run Nov. 27 as a listed stakes. Downgraded races are then reviewed by AGSC to determine whether the quality of the field had been significantly downgraded by any scratches. In the case of the Cecil B. DeMille, only two of nine horses entered had scratched by post time.
The reinstated grade now gives Calumet Farm's Term of Art his first graded stakes win and makes his dam, Miles of Style (Storm Cat) a graded stakes producer. A 2-year-old bay son of Tiznow , Term of Art has now compiled a 2-1-1 record in five starts and earned $111,105. He finished ninth in the Nov. 5 Sentinent Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I).
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The colt was bred in Kentucky by Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm and later sold for $220,000 to Calumet through the 2015 Keeneland September sale. Timber Town consigned the colt.
Term of Art is trained by Doug O'Neill and has been ridden exclusively by Joe Talamo.