Race Analysis:
This $50,000 Grade II summer classic was contested over 2 and 1/4
miles at Monmouth Park on July 18th. Campanile relished the hard
going as he registered a 3/4 length come-from-behind victory over
Invest West in 4 minutes 15.65 seconds. Weight might have played
a role in the outcome on this very hot (over 90 degrees) and humid
day as the two low weights in the field finished first and second.
Campanile met with modest success as a flat horse trained by Willard
C. (Mike) Freeman. Mr. Freeman, a trainer in New York for over 40
years, was the trainer of two-time Champion race mare Shuvee who
retired in 1970 with more purse earnings than any other mare up
to that point in time. Under Mr. Freeman's care, Campanile visited
the winner's circle only once in 15 starts on the flat. He was sent
to Janet Elliot in May of last year and made his first start over
fences three months later at Saratoga's Open House. He broke his
maiden over fences two starts later at Colonial Downs before concluding
his 1998 season with an eighth place loss to Pinkie Swear in the
Hobkirk Hill Handicap at Camden. He seems to have turned the corner
this year as he registered two seconds before stepping up to win
three graded stakes races in a row.
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Campanile returns to the winner's circle with jockey Blythe
Miller in the irons.
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Janet Elliot had been training Campanile on Ronnie Houghton's dirt
track in Pennsylvania prior to his victory in the Midsummer Hurdle
and before shipping to Saratoga. "The ground had become so terribly
hard at home" explained Elliot, "that I shipped all my horses 4
or 5 miles down the road and back every day so that they could gallop
over Ronnie's track." Elliot noted that Campanile's improved form
coincided with his return to training over a dirt surface. "He really
came to hand nicely this summer" said Elliot, "right around the
time we started training him over a dirt track again."
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Entries/Results:
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FP
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Horse
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lbs
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Jockey
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Trainer
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Owner
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| 1 |
Campanile |
140 |
B. Miller |
Elliot |
Gregory D. Hawkins |
| 2 |
Invest West |
138 |
Boucher |
Sheppard |
Augustin Stable |
| 3 |
Ninepins |
146 |
Kingsley |
Sheppard |
Hudson River Stable |
| 4 |
Approaching Squall |
156 |
Kiser |
Voss |
The Fields Stable |
| PU |
Melissa's Quickie |
144 |
Brown |
Elliot |
Bruno Favre |
| LR |
Assurance |
158 |
Wilson |
Fisher |
Mrs. Henry F. Stern
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Pedigree
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Breeding Analysis:
Campanile is a 5-year-old gelding by Lear Fan out of Irish Jody,
who is by Irish Tower. He was bred in Illinois by the Bond Stable.
Campanile is in-bred 4x4 to the speed favoring blue hen Rough Shod
II through the full brothers Lt. Stevens and Ridan. Other notable
race horses in-bred to Rough Shod II include 1996 steeplechase champion
Correggio and 1998 Japan Cup (Grade I) winner El Condor Passa. Campanile
has a dosage profile of 2-3-15-0-0, a dosage index of 1.67 and a
center of distribution of 0.35.
Campanile's sire, Lear Fan, was a Grade I stakes winner in Europe.
He was a consistent racehorse who won 5 of his 8 starts and finished
off the board only once in his career. Lear Fan was undefeated as
a 2-year-old, including a victory in the Grade II Laurent Perrier
Champagne at 7 furlongs. As a 3-year-old in 1984, Lear Fan won the
Grade I Prix Jacques le Marois and the Grade II Craven Stakes, both
contested at a mile, defeating Palace Music and Rainbow Quest. He
ran 2nd in the Grade I Prix du Moulin de Longchamp to Mendez and
was 3rd in the Grade I Two Thousand Guneas to El Gran Senor. Lear
Fan has sired four Grade I winners: Ryafan was the Champion Turf
Mare in 1998 after winning Grade I races in the England, France
and the United States; Windsharp was the Champion Turf Mare and
Champion Older Mare in Canada in 1995; Sikestown was the Champion
2-year-old in Italy in 1988 and and the Champion 3-year-old in 1989;
and Loup Solitare was highweight at two in France after winning
the Grade I Grand Citerium. Lear Fon is out of the Lt. Stevens mare
Wac, a full sister to Bel Sheba, the dam of Alysheba. Bel Sheba
was trained by Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey Paddy Smithwick.
Lear Fan has an Average Earning Index of 2.19. The average winning
distance of his progeny in North American open stakes races is 8.5
furlongs on the dirt and 9.4 furlongs on the turf. He stands at
Gainesway for a stud fee of $25,000.
Lear Fan is a son of Classic chef-de-race Roberto, the Champion
2-year-old colt in Ireland in 1971. As a 3-year-old, Roberto won
the English Derby and the Coronation Cup, both of which are Grade
I races contested at 11/2 miles. Roberto is by Hail To Reason, a
son of Turn-To by the Nearco sire Royal Charger.
Campanile's dam, Irish Jody, won 9 of 18 starts including 3 stakes
races at Canterbury Downs. In addition to Campanile, she has produced
stakes winner Will Post Bond, by Cryptoclearance, and two other
winners from four foals of racing age. Irish Jody is a half sister
to stakes winner Sweet Alex and to Landmark Decision, who produced
stakes winner Green Boundary, the dam of stakes winners East of
Easy and Trevelyan.
Irish Jody is by Irish Tower, a consistent sort who won stake races
at ages 2, 3 and 4. Irish Tower had his greatest success at age
4 when he won the Grade II Excelsior Handicap as well as the Grade
III Stymie and Grey Lag Handicaps; he was the highweight in all
three of those victories. That same year (1981) Irish Tower finished
2nd in both the Grade I Metropolitan Handicap to Fappiano and second
in the Grade II John B. Campbell Handicap to Relaxing, the dam of
Easy Goer. Irish Tower is by Irish Castle, a son of Bold Ruler.
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