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Sporting Art a pretty picture in Palm Beach
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Sporting Art (right) scooted through on the rail to take the Palm Beach
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Narrowly defeated in his American debut by Run Sully Run (Cherokee Run) in an
allowance at Gulfstream Park last month, Jon & Sarah Kelly's SPORTING ART (Doneraile
Court) avenged that loss while taking down a far richer prize Saturday in the
$100,000 Palm Beach S. (G3), one of four graded stakes on the Florida Derby
(G1) program.
Rating in midpack behind a quick pace of :22 4/5, :45 4/5 and 1:09 2/5 set
by Wise Answer (Wise Up), Sporting Art advanced four wide around the far turn,
assumed the lead inside the eighth-pole and resolutely held on to defeat 12-1
chance Flying Dismount (Proud Citizen) by a neck under Javier Castellano. It was
another three-quarters of a length back to Moral Compass (Grand Slam), who held
a brief lead with a furlong to go. Winning time for 1 1/8 miles over a firm turf
was a rapid 1:45 4/5.
A Christophe Clement trainee and the narrow 3-1 favorite, Sporting Art
returned mutuels of $8.20, $4.60, and $2.80. Flying Dismount paid $10.60 and
$6.60, while Moral Compass paid $4 to show. The $1 exacta returned $41.60, the
$2 trifecta $459.60, and the $1 superfecta (8-7-4-3) with Titan of Industry
(Giant's Causeway) came back $1,714.30. Following Titan of Industry in the order
of finish was Prime Realestate (Prime Timber), Run Sully Run, Celestial Comet
(Smart Strike), Cherokee Focus (Cherokee Run), Dynamalt (Dynaformer), Wise
Answer, and Victory Cafe (Victory Gallop).
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A winner in his first two starts on turf in England last summer for trainer
Garry Moore, Sporting Art ran fourth in his next race, the Sirenia S. (Eng-G3),
over Polytrack at Kempton, and concluded his European campaign with a fourth in
the Stardom S. over turf at Goodwood. Sporting Art did not race again until February
20 in the aforementioned second-level allowance, where he fell a neck short of
catching Run Sully Run. The $60,000 winner's share for the Palm Beach boosted
Sporting Art's earnings to $101,185, and his career mark now stands at 6-3-1-0.
Bred in Kentucky by Frank Penn and John R. Penn, Sporting Art has been
offered at auction four times in his young life, most recently garnering a bid
of 220,000 guineas (approximately $481,000) at the 2005 Tattersalls Horses in
Training Sale in England. Sporting Art is out of the unraced mare Playful Run
(Run Softly), who has produced one other winner and is the dam of an unnamed
two-year-old by Gulch. Playful Run is out of the Sham mare Safe Play, a
seven-time stakes winner, including the 1982 La Canada S. (G1) at Santa Anita.
Playful Run is a half-sister to the versatile Defensive Play (Fappiano), a Grade
1 winner on dirt and turf.
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