Bellamy Rd. Records

Bellamy Road’s Track Record, Pedigree and Racing Team

For a replay of Bellamy Road’s sensational 17 ½ length victory at the 2005 Wood Memorial, click below.

http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2005/derby_coverage/derby_entrants/bellamy_road/

Track Record:

2005 Kentucky Derby – Winner

2005 Wood Memorial Stakes (Aqueduct) – Winner

2005 Gulfstream Park – Winner

2004 Breeders Futurity – 7^th

2004 MGD Cradle Stakes – Winner

2004 Delaware Park – Winner

Pedigree

Bellamy Road is a son of Concerto, winner of the Jim Beam Stakes (GII) prior to his 9th place finish in the 1997 Kentucky Derby. Concerto had plenty of success at Churchill, winning the Brown and Williamson Jockey Club (GIII) at age two and the Clark Handicap (GIII) the following year. Overall, he won nine stakes and finished second in four others in 21 lifetime starts, earning over $1.3 million. On the small side, he may have not looked like an imposing distance of ground type horse, but nearly all of his wins came going two turns, including a victory in the 1 1/4 mile Congressional Handicap. This son of 1985 Derby third place finisher Chief's Crown stands stud at Ocala Stud Farm in Florida. From his four crops of racing age, he has four graded stakes winners and five stakes winners overall last year, with Bellamy Road being his top earner.

DAM PROFILE: Hurry Home Hillary is a 10 year old mare who won once in six starts and earned but $8,730. Bellamy Road is her second of three foals of racing age and the only one to win. "Hillary" herself won only once in six starts. She is a daughter of Preakness winner Deputed Testamony, (same family as Out of Place, who, like Concerto, won the Clark Handicap at Churchill), a Classic winner of the 1983 Preakness who also won the GI Haskell and set track records for a mile at Meadowlands and a 1-1/16-mile at Pimlico. Pensioned in 2004, the Maryland-bred sired over 30 runners who each earned over $100,000 but he never produced a $1 million earner . Hurry Home Hillary's dam is Ten Cents A Turn, a earner of $17,000 who won three times in 20 starts as a daughter of the great turf champion Cozzene. Besides Hurry Home Hillary, the mare's only other offspring of note was the $57,000-earner Fort Lauderdale. http://www.courier-journal.com/cjsports/trackside/briefingbook2005/bellamyroad.html

Interesting note in Bellamy Road's pedigree is that there is no inbreeding in his first five generations, something that is becoming increasingly rare in the North American Thoroughbred.

Breeder

Bred in Florida by Dianne D. Cotter, Bellamy Road was bought by Kinsman for $87,000 at the 2004 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company April sale of 2-year-olds in training from Ocala Stud Farms, agent. He won his first start that year by 71<$k-10>/2<$> lengths at Delaware Park, then took the Miller Genuine Draft Cradle Stakes (gr. III) at River Downs. http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=35196

Trainers

Nick Zito, a New York City native, started in racing as a teenager as a hotwalker and groom for trainer Buddy Jacobson. He later worked as an assistant to trainers LeRoy Jolley and John Campo. He saddled his first winner in 1972 and is one of only 17 trainers in history to saddle two or more Kentucky Derby winners (Strike The Gold and Go For Gin), as well as the 2003 Kentucky Oaks winner Bird Town, and Birdstone to upset Smarty Jones in last year's Belmont Stakes (GI)… He and his wife, Kim, son Alexander and daughter Sara live in Garden City, N.Y.

Edward Sexton, whose family owns a large horse farm in Kildare, Ireland, retired to Ocala two years ago, but he missed horses so much he found himself looking for jobs on one of Marion County's many farms. Steinbrenner may enjoy Sexton so much because in the 37-year-old Irishman he seems to have found a kindred spirit. Sexton didn't know he was suggesting Steinbrenner buy a son of Concerto at the time of the sale, however. He just knew he had been smitten with the colt since breaking and working him as a yearling when he worked at Ocala Stud. "He's all of his life been trying to breed a Kentucky Derby winner and I come in and all of a sudden this is his best chance to win, this year," Sexton said, at first sounding immodest. "A lot of people don't give credit where it should be. His son Hank is an absolute genius when it comes to pedigree and breeding. Hank bred Concerto, so without him, we wouldn't have Bellamy Road. I suppose it would have been nice to have bred him here instead of buying him in, but we have him now and it doesn't matter how we got him. "I told him, "If you want to buy a horse that will win the Derby for you, this is the horse.' " http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/07/Sports/The_Boss__private_joy.shtml

Jockey

Javier Castellano

Castellano was born Oct 23, 1977 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. His father and uncle were riders in his home country, where the young Castellano first rode in 1996. He began riding in North America in 1997, and his brother Abel rides on the mid-Atlantic circuit. He was leading rider at Calder on two separate occasions, as well as at Hialeah and Aqueduct. In 2004, he won 212 races with $13,038,943 in purses. He won the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2004 aboard Horse of the Year Ghostzappe, and the 2003 Clark Handicap (GII) for trainer Nick Zito at Churchill Downs. http://www.jockeysguild.com/jockey.php?JockeyID=33