Take the One O One Takes the Rail in Real Good Deal Win
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Take the One O One wins the Real Good Deal Stakes at Del Mar
Jay Em Ess Stable's Take the One O One has been nothing if not versatile in his career and he earned his second straight stakes win July 27 in the $150,000 Real Good Deal at Del Mar.
Already a two-time winner and stakes-placed sprinting on the dirt entering the seven-furlong Real Good Deal for California-bred or California-sired 3-year-olds, the Acclamation colt stalked and pounced going 1 1/8 mile on the grass last time out in the Snow Chief Stakes June 2 at Santa Anita Park.
With ample speed entered against the quick colt, however, jockey Joe Talamo waited a bit to make his move, moved through on the rail in the turn past a pair of frontrunners, and finished well to win by a half-length.
"I thought I was going to go outside in this one, but the way the race set up, I was down inside," Talamo said. "He was comfortable in there and we weren't getting any kickback. At the three-eighths (pole), I asked him and he went. He was all runner from there."
Daddysprize, who pressured early leader Smiling Angelo on the outside through most of the race, kept on to finish second, 1 1/4 lengths clear of longshot Shaymin in third.
Only a length back as Smiling Angelo ran the first quarter in :22.57, Take the One O One scooted through an opening on the rail and was a half-length back through a half-mile in :44.99. Daddysprize mounted a late rally despite losing ground turning for home, but could not get past the Brian Koriner trainee, who finished off the distance in 1:23.40.
"My horse ran real good," said Daddysprize's jockey, Tyler Baze. "The winner got through inside and that was unlucky for me."
Along with his stakes success, Take the One O One placed in a two-turn optional-claiming allowance outside of the Cal-bred ranks May 11 and finished third in the 2017 FrontRunner Stakes (G1). He now has a 4-1-3 record from nine starts and $341,181 in earnings.
"I think the horse really wants to go a lot farther," Koriner said. "The plan was to go to the (Sept. 2) Del Mar Derby (G2T), so we’ll figure it out and see where we go from here.”
Bred by Thomas Bachman, out of the Jump Start mare North Freeway, Take the One O One was a $47,00 purchase out of the California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association Sales Northern California Yearling Sale in 2016.