{"id":25123,"date":"2025-07-26T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25123\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:59:09","slug":"jerkens-likely-next-stop-for-gutsy-curlin-winner-chancer-mcpatrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25123\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerkens Likely Next Stop For ‘Gutsy’ Curlin Winner Chancer McPatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerkens Likely Next Stop For ‘Gutsy’ Curlin Winner Chancer McPatrick<\/a> originally appeared on Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Flanagan Racing\u2019s dual Grade 1-winner Chancer McPatrick earned both his first win around two turns and his highest Beyer Speed Figure [94] to date for a determined head victory in Thursday\u2019s restricted Listed $135,000 Curlin presented by Casamigos, a nine-furlong route for sophomores who had not won a graded stake at one mile or over in 2025, at Saratoga Race Course.<\/p>\n

Trained by five-time Eclipse Award-winner Chad Brown, the son of McKinzie rebounded from a distant seventh over a muddy track in the seven-furlong Grade 1 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun on June 7 here.<\/p>\n

Ridden in the Curlin by Irad Ortiz, Jr. for the first time in the afternoon, Chancer McPatrick stalked the pace with inside position through the first half-mile before advancing in the turn while favored stablemate Strategic Focus made a bold move to take command from the pacesetting Crudo before flattening out. So Sandy made his move to challenge down the center of the track and bumped with Chancer McPatrick right at the wire, but Chancer McPatrick would not be denied and got his head down in a final time of 1:49.71.<\/p>\n

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While Chancer McPatrick has now won around two turns, Brown said a cutback in distance could be preferable to a stretch-out to 10 furlongs in the Grade 1, $1.25 million DraftKings Travers on Aug. 23 here. The logical place to do so would be the seven-furlong Grade 1, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial on the same day, a race Brown has won three times with Practical Joke in 2017, Jack Christopher in 2022 and with Domestic Product last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s fine, it was a gutsy performance and I\u2019m glad to get him back on track,\u201d Brown said of Chancer McPatrick. \u201cI don\u2019t know which direction we\u2019re going, but I\u2019m probably leaning towards the Allen Jerkens. I\u2019m not sure he wants to run much farther than [the Curlin]. I\u2019ll talk to the owner about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Practical Joke and Jack Christopher both won the Jerkens when cutting back from nine furlongs, and Brown said the same tactic may work for Chancer McPatrick.<\/p>\n

\u201cCutbacks have worked for me in that race. It\u2019s going to be a tough race, but we\u2019ll see,\u201d Brown concluded.<\/p>\n

Klaravich Stables\u2019 Strategic Focus was favored in the Curlin off a nine-furlong optional claiming effort on June 6 here that saw him disqualified and placed second, awarding him a 102 Beyer. He made his eye-catching move in the second turn of the Curlin, but stalled once he made the front and was defeated a half-length.<\/p>\n

Brown said he has no immediate plans for the son of Gun Runner\u2019s next start.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks good, and I don\u2019t know [what\u2019s next]. I may try an equipment change, and he came back looking fine, but when he made the lead, he just dropped the bridle,\u201d Brown explained. \u201cWhen he made the lead in his last start, he had some steering issues. There\u2019s something with this horse when he makes the lead, and I\u2019m going to have to figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, Brown sent out several trainees to breeze over the Oklahoma turf training track, including multiple graded stakes-winner Zulu Kingdom, who NYRA clockers caught covering a half-mile in 49.70 seconds in company with Grade 2-placed Early Adopter.<\/p>\n

Zulu Kingdom, a sophomore son of Ten Sovereigns, was last seen posting a three-quarter-length victory over Capitol Hill in the Grade 3 Manila on July 4 here. The Grade 1-winning ridgling is pointing to the Grade 2, $400,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame on August 1 here.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcellent, he\u2019s on target for the Hall of Fame,\u201d Brown said of the work. \u201cHe looks good.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Paulick Report<\/a> on Jul 25, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerkens Likely Next Stop For ‘Gutsy’ Curlin Winner Chancer McPatrick originally appeared on Paulick Report. Flanagan Racing\u2019s dual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[15855,15854,14185,14187,14186,15856,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-25123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-allen-jerkens","9":"tag-beyer-speed-figure","10":"tag-chad-brown","11":"tag-chancer-mcpatrick","12":"tag-curlin","13":"tag-jack-christopher","14":"tag-racing","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}