Oaks Horses

Vindication--Broadway Gold, by Seeking the Gold

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Jan 29 2012 Forward Gal Gulfstream Park II 7 Furlongs 1
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Connections

Todd Pletcher

Trainer

Pletcher won the 2010 Kentucky Derby with Super Saver. In 2011 he led all trainers in monies won with such stable stars as Stay Thirsty and Awesome Maria. He trained Rags to Riches not only to win the Kentucky Oaks in 2007, but became the first filly to take the Belmont Stakes in 102 years. He won four straight Eclipse Awards as top trainer from 2004-2007 and again in 2010. He has trained multiple Eclipse champions including Uncle Mo, Ashado, English Channel, Speighstown, Fleet Indian, Wait a While, Lawyer Ron, and Left Bank.

John Velazquez

Jockey

John Velazquez has ridden in twelve editions of the Kentucky Derby. He won the 2011 Kentucky Derby aboard Animal Kingdom. He won the 2004 Kentucky Oaks with Ashado, who would win the Eclipse Award for top Three-Year-Old filly in 2004 and in 2005 won for Top Older Female. Known as Johnny V around the racetrack, he attended a jockey school in his native Puerto Rico before coming to North America under the guidance of retired Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero. He began riding races in New York in March 1990, and is ranked amongst the leading jockeys on the circuit.

E. Paul Robsham Stables LLC.

Owner

In 1983, the Robshams became involved in racing and breeding Thoroughbreds. Joyce Robsham and her husband E. Paul Robsham owned the racing stable together until he passed away in 2004. Joyce now oversees the E. Paul Robsham Racing Stable. Their homebred winners include Discreetly Mine who was the winner of the King’s Bishop (GI), Amsterdam (GII), Jersey Shore, and Risen Star Stakes; and R Heat Lightning who won the Spinaway (GI) and was second in the Frizette (GI). Other stakes winners for the E.

  • Photo: Adam Coglianese Photography

  • Photo: Adam Coglianese Photography

Pedigree

Broadway’s Alibi is by undefeated champion Vindication out of the Seeking the Gold mare Broadway Gold, herself a stakes winner.

Broadway Gold is a daughter of Miss Doolittle, a Storm Cat mare who counts champion Eliza as her dam. Miss Doolittle was Grade 2-placed on track and would go on in the breeding shed to produce last year’s Florida Derby winner Dialed In.

Vindication has done well when mixed with the Storm Bird bloodline. Frolic’s Revenge, whose dam is a daughter of Summer Squall, is a dual stakes winner who opened 2012 with a third in the Sweetest Chant Stakes at Gulfstream. Stakes heroine Crisis of Spirit is out of a Storm Cat mare, while dual Grade 3-placed stakes victor Vengeful Wildcat’s dam is by a son of Storm Cat.

Vindication’s offspring show an average winning distance of 6.9 furlongs, but have won up to two miles. Seeking the Gold’s progeny have won up to three miles while averaging 7.3 furlongs. Both sires were Grade 1 winners at nine furlongs or longer.

Broadway’s Alibi has dominated her past three races at sprint distances, and should relish the stretch out in ground. She is a half-sister to the Bernardini filly R Gypsy Gold, who broke her maiden by 7 ½ lengths last year at 1 1/16 miles before going on to run third in the Mother Goose and capture the Real Prize Stakes, both at 8 ½ furlongs.

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