Brittany-sired 2-year-olds sweep Yonkers NYSS
Sep 16th, 11
Freshman colt pacers by Brittany’s New York stallions American Ideal and Artiscape swept their respective $82,000-plus divisions of the New York Sire Stakes 2-Year-Old Colt Pace at Yonkers Raceway on Sept. 15, with American Ideal’s Heston Blue Chip posting his seventh stakes win in eight career starts.
Heston Blue Chip p,2,1:52f ($158,662), owned by Kenneth Jacobs and trained by Linda Toscano, won the single division on the betting card as the prohibitive favorite, as he went gate to wire in 1:54.2 with a :27.3 final quarter. The Blue Chip Farms-bred colt, an early national season’s leader on both five-eighths and half-mile tracks, has also won NYSS races at Tioga, Buffalo and Monticello and scored in the Tompkins-Geers at Tioga as well.
Artiscape colts won both of the non-betting divisions at Yonkers. His son Escape The News p,2,1:54.1 ($60,546) captured the opening split in 1:56 while Art Of Temptation p,2,1:57h ($68,049) won the second in 1:57.
In his first start since the Metro elim at Mohawk, Escape The News scored his first stakes win for owners-breeders Brittany Farms and Val d’Or Farms and trainer Joe Holloway. Art Of Temptation also took his first stakes win in the NYSS after several placings. He is owned by trainer Ian Kaufman along with partners Michael Belotti and David and Edward Reich. Art Of Temptation was bred by Winbak Farm, where Artiscape stands in New York.
As the yearling sales get underway, smart buyers know the importance of having a strong sire stakes program behind the yearling they’re buying, and in that regard, one can’t do better than buying a New York-bred.
With American Ideal and Artiscape yearlings, you get that solid backing along with the promise of even greater success in the sport’s major stakes!