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(10/8) Citizenship wins second consecutive
allowance at Belmont Park
CITIZENSHIP went gate-to-wire today to win his second consecutive
state-bred allowance race at Belmont Park. The three-year-old
dark bay colt broke from five-post-position in the 8-horse field
for the NW-2X condition race, which was run around one-turn
at 8-1/2-furlongs. Trainer Alan Goldberg named journeyman jockey
Joe Bravo to ride the talented colt.
Citizenship took command as the field entered the main track
off the chute with Quiet Challenge in close pursuit in second
and race-time favorite River Spirit moving steadily along the
rail. As the field neared the three-quarters pole, reached in
1:11.2 seconds, Rosie's Big Boy was putting in his run while
on the far outside but Citizenship had plenty left in the tank
and drew off to the wire to win comfortably by 2-lengths. Rosie's
Big Boy held for second and Tomorrows Banquet closed to be third.
Final time was 1:43.2 seconds.
Owned by the Jayeff B Stables of Richard Santulli and George
Prussin, which has campaigned such graded-winning standouts
as Ciro (Grade/Group 1 in the U.S. and France), Navesink (Grade
2), Chat (Grade 2), and Jules (Grade 3), Citizenship, who has
never been off the board (1-2-3) in seven-starts raised his
total earning over the century mark to $108,100 with today's
score. Santulli purchased Citizenship for $175,000 at Fasig-Tipton's
2002 Saratoga Select Yearling Sales through agent Reynolds Bell
Jr.
Bred by brothers Alfred and Joseph Nastasi of Merrick, Long
Island and Saratoga Springs, who jointly qualified for a $2,580
breeder award, Citizenship is a full brother to the Nastasi
brothers' homebred New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) Co-Champion
Three-Year-Old Filly of 1997, Biogio's Rose ($797,959). Although
a NYTB champion at three, Biogio's Rose actually had her best
season as a six-year-old in 2000, when her stakes victories
included tallies in Aqueduct's Grade 3 Rare Treat and Next Move
Handicaps -- both at a two-turn mile and an eighth and the former
in stakes record time. The sire of Citizenship and Biogio's
Rose and of another winning full sister to both of them is the
deceased Danzig stallion, Polish Numbers, and their dam is winner
Fois Gras, a Barachois mare whose winning New York-bred offspring
also include multiple stakes-placed Biogio's Baby ($177,339).
The Nastasi brothers, both graduates of Saint John's University
and partners in a research investment advisor company, purchased
Fois Gras privately from retired trainer Kay Jensen for $15,000
-- paid in $5,000 installments over three years. The mare's
offspring have earned more than $1.3-million.
Citizenship, who is inbred 3 X 3 to Northern Dancer, was foaled
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(9/12) Citizenship
shows improved speed in 6F allowance win
Showing improved form as a six-furlong sprinter even though
he twice had placed creditably going a mile or longer earlier
this year, Jayeff B Stables's three-year-old CITIZENSHIP rallied
on the outside to take Belmont's 10th race Sunday nightcap,
a $43,000 restricted N1X allowance for three-year-olds and up.
It was the dark bay colt's second start off a layoff of more
than four months, and his record already was impressive enough
to merit his favoritism at 1.75-to-1 among 10 starters with
jockey Javier Castellano race-riding him for the first time.
He broke towards the back but was just three lengths off the
front-running second choice, 2.85-to-1 Jet Prospector, while
in fourth place on the outside following the opening quarter-mile.
Jet Prospector set fractions of 22.54 and 45.80 and reached
mid-stretch with a five-eighths clocking of 58.03, while Citizenship
rallied four wide coming out of the turn and advanced to within
a head of the pacesetter as they entered the final furlong,
where he edged ahead decisively with ground-devouring strides.
Scoring by half a length, Citizenship covered the six-furlong
distance in 1:10.40. For jockey Castellano, it was the third
winning ride of the day following two victorious trips aboard
stakes winners.
Owned by the Jayeff B Stables of Richard Santulli and George
Prussin, which has campaigned such graded-winning standouts
as Ciro (Grade/Group 1 in the U.S. and France), Navesink (Grade
2), Chat (Grade 2), and Jules (Grade 3), Citizenship races under
the care of trainer Alan Goldberg. He had broken his maiden
by two lengths in his second start going six furlongs on Aqueduct's
inner track on New Years Day, then had placed second going a
two-turn mile and a sixteenth on the inner track and going a
one-turn mile on Aqueduct's outer track. Goldberg then had given
Citizenship four months off from competition and brought him
back for a third-place effort in a six-furlong sprint at Saratoga
on August 7, after which he had given the colt a moderate half-mile
workout at Colts Neck Stables in New Jersey on August 28. The
late-foaled (May 13, 2001) three-year-old's second victory of
2004 increased his earnings by $25,800 to $80,500 and improved
his record to 2 - 3 - 1 in six starts for Jayeff B Stables,
which had purchased Citizenship for $175,000 at Fasig-Tipton's
2002 Saratoga select yearling sales through agent Reynolds Bell
Jr.
Bred by brothers Alfred and Joseph Nastasi of Merrick, Long
Island and Saratoga Springs, who jointly qualified for a $2,580
breeder award, Citizenship is a full brother to the Nastasi
brothers' homebred New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) Co-Champion
Three-Year-Old Filly of 1997, Biogio's Rose ($797,959). Although
a NYTB champion at three, Biogio's Rose actually had her best
season as a six-year-old in 2000, when her stakes victories
included tallies in Aqueduct's Grade 3 Rare Treat and Next Move
Handicaps -- both at a two-turn mile and an eighth and the former
in stakes record time. The sire of Citizenship and Biogio's
Rose and of another winning full sister to both of them is the
deceased Danzig stallion, Polish Numbers, and their dam is winner
Fois Gras, a Barachois mare whose winning New York-bred offspring
also include multiple stakes-placed Biogio's Baby ($177,339).
The Nastasi brothers, both graduates of Saint John's University
and partners in a research investment advisor company, purchased
Fois Gras privately from retired trainer Kay Jensen for $15,000
-- paid in $5,000 installments over three years. The mare's
offspring have earned more than $1.3-million.
Citizenship, who is fully nominated to the Maryland Million
series in addition to being a registered New York-bred, was
foaled at Dawn Lane's Victory Lane Farm in Millbrook. He is
inbred 3 x 3 to Northern Dancer. Brisnet Chart
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(1/1) Citizenship takes maiden
Jayeff B Stables CITIZENSHIP gamely broke his maiden today
after a prolonged stretch duel with Sweet Moving D, upsetting
Boundary Bay, the prohibitive 3-5 betting favorite. The six-furlong
race run over a fast-winterized inner-track at Aqueduct had
a full field of 12-state-bred three year-old horses go to
the post. Citizenship finished second in his maiden debut
and had the services of jockey Julian Pimental, who rode four-winners
on the New Year's Day card. Racing on lasix for the first
time, Citizenship was saddled, for the first time, by trainer
John Servis.
Sweet Moving D went to the front soon after the break but
was quickly engaged by Citizenship as they raced past the
quarter in 23-1/5ths seconds, and reached the half in a solid
46-4/5ths seconds. Racing as a team around the last turn,
the pair continued to battle through the stretch as Boundary
Bay began to mount his bid, but was no match for the battling
duo as Citizenship outgamed Sweet Moving D by by two-lengths
under the wire, stopping the timer in 1:12-4/5ths seconds.
Bred by Joseph and Alfred Nastasi, who together qualified
for a breeder's award of $2,460, Citizenship was purchased
by Richard Santulli (Jayeff B Stables) at the 2002 Fasig-Tipton
Saratoga Select Yearling Sale for $175,000. The promising
three year-old bay colt is by Polish Numbers, and is the thirteenth
foal to race out of the multiple graded stakes producing Fois
Gras, by Barachois. Citizenship is a brother to Biogio's Rose,
winner of 6-stakes victories, which included victories in
the Grade 3 - Next Move Handicap and the Grade 3 - Rare Treat
Handicap. Biogio's Rose earned close to $800,000 and retired
to the breeding shed after finishing 2nd in the Grade 3 -
Rare Treat Handicap as a seven year-old. The Nastasi brothers
campaigned Biogio's Rose, who was ably trained by Robert Ribaudo.
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