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Monopolist’s winning connections include owner Edward Allred, trainer James Glenn Jr. and jockey Oscar Andrade Jr.
“He has mentored me a little more in the gates with them,” said Oscar Jr. “He has taught me to be a littler looser with them—let them calm down. They are younger horses. You can’t put too much pressure on them to break as hard as you want them to.”
Monopolist was “a little anxious” in the gate in the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity, said Andrade. As a result, Monopolist got away in fourth.
“He lost his feet a tiny bit,” said the jockey. “At the gap he wanted to lug in a tiny bit. I asked him a few times and he cruised on home.”
Monopolist really got to running midway through the 350-yard race. He passed rivals and grabbed the lead to win by a 1/2-length in :17.625.
It was Andrade’s first race with Monopolist, who earlier this year finished second in the California Breeders’ Freshman Stakes.
Jimmy Glenn trains Monopolist for Allred, and it was the richest race of Glenn’s career. Allred earlier won the PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity with Twelvie in 1997.
Glenn noted that Monopolist, winning his second race in six starts, had encountered trouble in some of his races.
“If you look at two of those trials, they just flat run over the top of him,” said the trainer. “They would break and the horse next to him would make a left and run him over. He would still be way back and come up and run fourth. His times were good. He was just a bad-luck horse. He’s been sound and has a really good mind.”
The tenor of the race changed when fastest- qualifier Terrific Temper had to go on the vet’s list and did not run in the final.
“I knew right away that the lineup for the final was going to change,” said Glenn. “As soon
as I realized that, I thought we had a real shot at this thing. When she was not able to come back, that put us with the second-fastest time.”
Allred bred Monopolist in California from his homebred Nymph, a four-time stakes winner from an excellent family that Allred has shepherded through several gener- ations. Monopolist is the mare’s first winner in two starters.
Allred bred Nymph from Elans Last, an Allred homebred as well. Elans Last also has produced 2020 Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 winner Chance To Excel and Chance To
Fire, winner of the 2019 California Breeders’ Sprint Stakes and multiple graded placed. Monopolist’s third dam is Elans Special, win- ner of the 1987 All American Futurity-G1 and an earner of $1,186,540.
Jose Flores trains second-place Reason
To Fly MV (Good Reason SA-Take A Look), ridden by Cruz Mendez, and third-place Opt Out (Favorite Cartel-You Can Fly), ridden by Raul Valenzuela. Paulo Otavio Freire Macedo bred and races Reason To Fly MV, who in three prior starts won twice and finished second once. Bella Valenzuela owns Opt Out, who finished third in the Governor’s Cup Futurity-RG1.
Thats R Best Card (Docs Best Card-Thatsa Blazin Chick), No Hesitation (Favorite Cartel- Mia Ta Fame), and The Best Feeling (Docs Best Card-Stuckonafeeling) finished fourth, fifth, and sixth. Rite On Time (Favorite Cartel-A Regal Classic) and Ynot The Favorite (Favorite Cartel-Ynot Bar) dead-heated for seventh. BF Outfoosed (Foose-BF Outrageous) finished ninth.
Monopolist’s winning trainer James Glenn Jr.
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