Consumer Base rallies to win G3 Frankel Stakes
Client Base, in a thrilling finish to the final stakes of the year at Santa Anita Park, nosed out Stormy Lucy in the $100,000 Robert J. Frankel on the lawn Dec. 29.
Mike Smith piloted Customer Base to her initial ranked stakes gain from well off the pace in the nine-horse area of fillies and mares. The 4-year-old little girl of Lime Decline Kid, trained by Tom Proctor for proprietor Glen Hill Ranch, completed the 1 1/8-mile range in 1:46.45 over services going.
Fourth at the furlong mark, Consumer Base rallied outside of Stormy Lucy, which pioneered for Isaias Enriquez moving toward the sixteenth pole, and the the game fillies fought it out in tight tandem to the wire.
Irish-bred Gulsary, the 2-1 fave likewise educated by Proctor for Glen Hill Ranch and ridden by Gary Stevens, was along late for third, 2 1/4 lengths behind the initial 2. Consumer Base had actually been ridden by Stevens in her prior 2 starts.
"I don't wish to seem cocky or anything, but it seemed like a Zenyatta-type photo finish where every person believed it was so close, but yet I was certain," claimed Smith, a Hall of Popularity cyclist which completed a significant 2013 season with the victory. "She was just hanging there, merely hanging around. She knew she had done enough ... The only thing I could do from that factor was not to mess it up, so I just visited her.".
Pacesetter Appealing paved the way at mid-stretch after publishing quarter mile fractions of:23.58,:47.05, and 1:10.80, and 52-1 shot Nickels Wild took control of briefly.
"I understood the two outside horses (Appealing and Nickels Wild) would certainly have speed so I might work out an excellent trip from that factor unless I acquired buried, which could have happened," said Smith. "I believed the main horse to adhere to was Stormy Lucy, or our other horse (Gulsary), which lagged me, so I parked in behind Stormy Lucy and really did not move till I had to.".
Bred in Kentucky by Edward Seltzer and Beverly Anderson from the Story of the Cat mare Little Feline Feet, Client Base was a $170,000 yearling purchase out of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale in 2010.
Consumer Base had actually been idle since running a close third in the Goldikova Stakes behind eventual grade I champion Egg Decrease at Santa Anita Nov. 3. With the champion's share of $60,000, she improved her revenues to $322,182 from a general mark of 5-3-2 in 18 races. The 3rd imagining selection while bring 119 pounds, Client Base paid $10, $4.80 and $3.20. Stormy Lucy, off at 4-1, was mid-pack early and rallied from third to buy the lead, paid $5.60 and $3.80. Gulsary, who appeared to have dead purpose on the leaders turning for home, couldn't kick with her stablemate and went for 3rd in her United States stakes launching, paying $2.80 to reveal.
Proctor, which also succeeded Sunday's $75,000 Eddie Logan Levels with Enterprising, was glad to see Humberto Ascanio, previous long time aide to the late Frankel, offering the prize in the victor's circle.
"It's a satisfaction succeeding this race and seeing Humberto (that endured a career-halting stroke 2 years ago)," claimed Proctor. "I always thought one of the most of Bobby Frankel. We started, we really did not like each other too much. After that I got where I actually thought a bunch of him. He around put me out of business, claiming every little thing I had my very first year in training, 'cause I was running them where they can triumph.".
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Nickels Wild finished fourth, defeated a nose by Gulsary. She was adhered to by 2nd choice Moone's My Name, Champagneandcaviar, Becky Lou, Appealing, and Playful Wit.
