Recent six-figure sale buys debut in maiden race

ARCADIA, Calif. – Run Away and Honeymoonz Over were sold about an hour apart at the Barretts March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training at Del Mar this year. They will be side by side in the gate for their first start, which comes in a maiden race at 4 1/2 furlongs Friday at Santa Anita.

Run Away, bought for $325,000 by Kaleem Shah, and Honeymoonz Over, bought for $360,000, are among a field of eight in the day’s second race.

Run Away, by Run Away and Hide, is trained by Simon Callaghan and has worked quickly in recent weeks, including a half-mile in 47.40 seconds from the gate last Friday.

“I think he’s ready to run a good race,” Callaghan said. “He’s shown good speed.”

Honeymoonz Over, by Congrats, is trained by Doug O’Neill and has shown a steady pattern of workouts since early April. Honeymoonz Over is owned by Great Friends Racing, Steve Keh, Kramer Racing, and Jamie Kapadia.

Callaghan said he looked at buying Honeymoonz Over at the sale.

“I liked him a lot,” Callaghan said.

Seven of the runners are firsttime starters. The well-regarded Bookies Luck is the only horse with experience. He was third as the even-money favorite in his debut against California-bred maidens on May 6 for trainer Jeff Bonde and owners and breeders Larry and Marianne Williams.

“He should run big,” Bonde said. “We were high on him the first time out, and he was turned sideways leaving there. Going that distance, you can’t give up ground.”

Big Score headed to Penn Mile

Big Score, a stakes winner at Keeneland in April who was third in the Grade 2 American Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on May 6, will start in the Grade 2 Penn Mile at Penn National on June 3, trainer Tim Yakteen said.

Yakteen said the $500,000 purse and the timing of the race were leading factors in the decision to start Big Score in the Penn Mile.

“I think he’s still improving,” Yakteen said.

Yakteen is hoping to run Big Score in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby, a $1.2 million race at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Belmont Park on July 8.

Owned by breeder George Krikorian, Big Score has won 3 of 6 starts and earned $266,300. Big Score won the Zuma Beach Stakes here last October and the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland on April 7 in his first start this year. Last November, Big Score was fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita.

Beau Recall gets new owner

Beau Recall, second in the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes at Santa Anita on May 6 in her gradedstakes debut, has a new owner.

Slam Dunk Racing has sold an ownership stake in the filly to Medallion Racing, a partnership that is under the direction of Taylor Made Farms in Kentucky. The deal was finalized in recent weeks, according to Nick Cosato of Slam Dunk Racing, who did not disclose the terms.

Beau Recall is scheduled to have her next start in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf for 3-year-old fillies here June 17.

Trained by Simon Callaghan, Beau Recall has won 2 of 5 starts and earned $79,877. An Irishbred filly by Sir Prancealot, Beau Recall won a maiden race in Tipperary, Ireland, last August and won her American debut in an optional claimer at Santa Anita in January. In her stakes debut, Beau Recall was second in the China Doll Stakes in March.