PEGASUS S.

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PEGASUS S.
(gr. III , 9f , to Actin Good, Now a Victor, defeating Helsinki, Bwana Bull ).
PEGASUS S. Chart

PEGASUS S. (gr. III), MONMOUTH PARK, October 27, 2007, $250,000 guaranteed, value of race $250,000, 3-year-old 9f, 1:51.54 (track record, 1:34.12), track sloppy.

Actin Good(b g), 119 lb) $150,000
Yes It's True—Hollow Design, by Colonial Affair
B—Johnson Hollow Farm, FL.; O—Leo Sag Stable, Goldsmith, Gus and Greg and Jerrich Stable; T—Bobby S. Dibona

Now a Victor(b h), 119 lb) $50,000
Yankee Victor—Try a Gator Girl, by Copelan
B—Brereton C. Jones, KY.; O—Three Diamonds Farm, Veratti, Robert and Besecker, Joseph; T—Michael J. Trombetta

Slew's Tizzy(dkb/br h), 122 lb) $27,500
Tiznow—Hepatica, by Slewpy
B—Joseph LaCombe Stables, Inc., KY.; O—Joseph Lacombe Stable, Inc.; T—Gregory Fox


Margins: neck, 2¼, head. Others: Helsinki 119 ($15,000), Bwana Bull 122 ($7,500), Winning Jockey, Cornelio H. Velasquez.
Recap

Actin Good earned his first graded win and became his dam’s first black-type winner when he took the $250,000 Pegasus Stakes (gr. III) on the Breeders’ Cup undercard at Monmouth Park Oct. 27.

Under Cornelio Velasquez, the Bobby Dibona-trained Yes It’s True gelding led four rivals into the final turn, briefly gave up the lead to Now a Victor, fought back gamely, and won the 11¼8-mile event by a neck in a final time of 1:51.54.

Now with career earnings of $262,670 for owners Leo-Sag Stables, Gus Goldsmith, and Greg and Jerrich Stable and a 3-2-2 record from nine starts, 3-year-old Actin Good came off a 33¼4-length allowance win at Suffolk Downs Sept. 22 to win the Pegasus. Bred in Florida by Johnson Hollow Farm out of the Colonial Affair mare Hollow Design, he sold as a short yearling to Athens Woods for $200,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s January winter mixed sale of 2005 where the average price was $13,055. He was a $145,000 RNA at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale for consignor Eaton Sales, agent, that same year, then sold to Leo-Sag Stables for $142,000 at the OBS February select sale of 2-year-olds in training in 2006.

Hollow Design, a two-time winner who claimed both her victories at Remington Park, is the dam of one other winner, a 4-year-old full brother to Actin Good named D. J. Best. Hollow Design has a 2-year-old filly by Delaware Township and a weanling colt by Wildcat Heir.

Yes It’s True is the sire of 24 stakes winners. Among his 12 added-money winners of 2007 are Off Duty (gr. III), Yes He’s the Man (gr. III), Film Director (Tri-II), and Yes It’s Legal (PR-III). Yes It’s True stood the 2007 season at Robert N. Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky., for a stud fee of $35,000.—C.N.