(12/31/04) Biogio's Dream sweeps to allowance victory
Dawn Hew's BIOGIO'S DREAM given a perfect trip by journeyman jockey Jose Espinoza defeated a field of state-bred fillies and mares, today, in a NW-1X condition allowance race. Run over Aqueduct's winterized inner-track, listed "fast", at six-furlongs, a field of 9-horses went to the starting gate. Out of the 100% producer Fois Gras, by Barachois, Biogio's Dream is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Biogio's Rose (Polish Numbers), who earned nearly $800,000 in 52-career races, and to the multiple stakes placed allowance winner Biogio's Baby (Belong to Me), all of which were trained by Robert Ribaudo.
Race time favorite Maidez and Curly's Pride battled head-to-head through a quick opening half-mile in 45.3-seconds as Biogio's Dream rated in fifth-position along the rail. As the field turned for home, Expinoza angled Biogio's Dream to the middle of the track for a clear run and the four-year-old filly responded willingly powering past Maidez and Curly's Pride at the eighth-pole on her way to a 1-1/2-length score. Final time was 1:11.3 seconds.
Bred by Alfred and Joseph Nastasi, who campaigned the aforementioned Biogio's Rose and together qualify for a $2,580 breeder's award, Biogio's Dream is by the Danzig stallion Langfuhr, who sired the $84,000 Alex M. Robb Handicap winner, Lord Langfuhr, later on the card. Biogio's Dream's winner's share ($25,800) of the $43,000 purse elevates her lifetime earnings to $89,377 in 16-career starts

(02/25/04) Biogio's Dream breaks maiden from far off pace
Tried at various sprints and routes but returned to six-furlong sprinting in February, Dawn Lane-Hew's four-year-old BIOGIO'S DREAM came from ninth to break her maiden by a length and a half in Aqueduct's ninth race nightcap on Wednesday, a $41,000 restricted maiden special for fillies and mares, four-year-olds and up. The filly was born and raised at the owner's farm, Victory Lane Farm in Millbrook, New York. Mrs. Lane-Hew, one of the very talented but unheralded farm managers of New York, has foaled and raised all of the breeder's New York-breds. Again ridden by apprentice jockey Pablo Fragoso, who has a five-pound allowance and had been on board for her strong-finishing second-place effort going six furlongs at Aqueduct two weeks earlier, the bay filly was favored at 2.20-to-1 among 10 starters but dropped back to ninth in the opening quarter-mile. With a quarter-mile left to run, Biogio's Dream was still no better than eighth, but she rallied four wide approaching the stretch and at the finish was pulling away with large strides while under wraps -- in fact, she was so much on the bit that she appeared to be climbing. Second choice Princess A. P. (3.05-to-1) placed second and was followed by 7.90-to-1 fifth choice and early pacesetter Shesasoprano. For Fragoso, it was the third winning ride of the day -- and his second winning ride aboard a New York-bred.
Trained by Robert Ribaudo, Biogio's Dream increased her earnings by $24,600 to $45,708 and improved her record to 1 - 2 - 0 in seven starts while also qualifying her breeders, Alfred and Joseph Nastasi of Saratoga Springs, for a $2,460 breeder award. The New York-bred filly is from the second crop of Canadian champion and three-time NYRA Grade 1 winner Langfuhr, and she is the 10th winner produced from winner Fois Gras, being a half-sister to the Nastasis' New York homebred multiple graded-winning mare, Biogio's Rose ($797,958). Dam Fois Gras, who is by Barachois (by Northern Dancer), also produced New York-bred Biogio's Baby ($177,339), who was stakes-placed as a juvenile and multiple stakes-placed as a four-year-old, among her previous winners.
Like Biogio's Rose, Biogio's Dream is by a son of Danzig, and she is inbred 3 x 3 to Northern Dancer through Langfuhr's sire Danzig and through Barachois, sire of dam Fois Gras.