April 24, 2007
EXCUSE ME, DID SOMEBODY MENTION SOMETHING ABOUT STATS?
STATELY BECOMES GRADED STAKES WINNER NUMBER 50 FOR STABLE
The weekend’s two stakes victories pumped up the stable’s seasonal and all-time statistics, allowing three important barometers to move up a percentage point when rounded off.
“They say figures don’t lie, but liars figure,” laughed Barry Irwin “and in this instance that extra couple of tenths of a point did add up.”
Thanks to the victory by Stately in the Grade 3 Strelitzia Stakes, runners syndicated since 1987 by Barry Irwin and Jeff Siegel now can boast percentages that follow:
- Graded Stakes Winners – Stately becomes number 50, which equates to a 17-percent strike rate over 20 seasons.
- Graded Stakes Horses – Stately becomes number 113, which equates to a 38-percent success in this category.
- Stakes Winners – Stately is stakes winner number 83, which is good for a 28-percent ratio.
- Stakes Horses – Stately is stakes horse number 113, reflecting a 51-percent incidence since 1987.
For the 2007, Team Valor and partners now have campaigned 5 stakes winners, as follows:
- Little Miss Magic, Grade 1 winner of the Empress Club Stakes in South Africa, where she has a chance at Championship honors.
- King of the Roxy, Grade 2 winner of the Hutcheson Stakes, runner-up in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, candidate for the Preakness.
- Stately, Grade 3 winner of the Strelitzia Stakes, candidate for the Grade 1 Allan Robertson Fillies Championship Stakes next start.
- Fairbanks, Grade 3 winner of the Tokyo City Handicap at Santa Anita, candidate for the Grade 1 Suburban against Invasor next.
- Audacious Chloe, stakes winner of the Gaily Gaily and Appalachian Stakes, next engagement undecided.
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