Toso: 6-yr old maiden starter - wins first time out

[Glimmerglass]

Well never too late to make that racing debut :D

Just a month and 1/2 away from turning 7, why not make a maiden start at Aqueduct!

The mare Toso with apprentice jockey Maylan Studdard up takes the victory. Maylan is a 19-year-old (http://www.saratogaracing.com/aqueduct/stories/Nov052008.shtml) apprentice from Rio de Janeiro. She rode 10 winners at Calder Race Course before heading north.

Race 6, 11-19-08, at 6 1/2 Furlongs on the dirt (http://drf.com/results/19/rAQU19.html?rn=115879#6) for 3 Year Olds And Up; Maiden Claiming ($20,000) for a purse of $16,000

[Barnfairy]

Wow. That's a pretty unique feat.

I wonder what she (Toso) has been up to for the last 6 years?

[Glimmerglass]

The race chart (pdf): 6th Race Aqueduct 11-19-08 (http://www.drf.com/drfPDFChartRacesIndexAction.do?TRK=AQU&CTY=USA&DATE=20081119&RN=6)

Nothing like that field of "Last Raced" being blank only for Toso :D

Per the chart Toso is still owned by the same person who bred her!

[Linny]

Maybe she was "so fast that no one could catch her?":lol:

[Glimmerglass]

Videos - while NYRA does provide some content on youtube.com they don't post each race like Churchill does. So their closer look show Trips & Traps on youtube.com might cover this race but not until a few days out.

They do have one segment on the jockey who rode Toso -

NYRA focus: female jocks - Maylan Studart & Jacqueline Davis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkUQAtra0E&feature=channel)

Sadly The Daily News (NY) (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2008/11/19/2008-11-19_the_day_at_the_races.html) rather then saying it was a fun maiden effort suggests the quality at the Big A is that poor:

You have to wonder about the quality of racing we'll have at Aqueduct this winter after witnessing 6-year-old, first-time starter Toso go wire-to-wire in her debut to take the sixth.

In just over a month, she'll be seven, when she would have been ineligible to compete as a first-time starter on the New York Racing Association circuit. We wonder what happened to her that delayed her debut for such a long time.

The final time for the 6-1/2 furlongs went in a very slow 1:22.57. The track record is 1:14.35 set by Coronado's Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONpOtP40PI8) on Oct. 26, 1997.

IMHO to cite Coronado's Quest's track record to make any point about the state of racing with a maiden winner on a cold sloppy track is down right silly! CQ won the Travers Stakes (1998), Haskell Invitational (1998), Remsen Stakes (1997), Cowdin Stakes (1997), Nashua Stakes (1997), Wood Memorial (1998), Dwyer Stakes (1998), Riva Ridge Stakes (1998) - so there is no point to mention the two horses via track times at all ;)

[Glimmerglass]

Wow. That's a pretty unique feat.

I wonder what she (Toso) has been up to for the last 6 years?

Perhaps it was on her "bucket list" :D

#144 Eat at Central Park
#145 Win a horse race
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[Barnfairy]

#144: :)

#145: :lol:

#146: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks. I needed that.

[Glimmerglass]

You're welcome Barnfairy ;)

Another good news story on Toso's jockey as she looks to be doing very well within the tough jockey colony at the Big A - Brisnet - Thoroughbred Beat (http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/editorial/news/article.cgi?id=13434):

Maylan -- With her U.S. riding career off to a rousing start, apprentice Maylan Studdart is turning heads in more ways than one. The 19-year-old Brazilian native, who has done some modeling, registered her first U.S. stakes victory when capturing the Lindsay Frolic S. at Calder in early September and switched her tack to New York in late October, piloting Decorated Court (Judge T C) to an $104.50 upset on Aqueduct's opening day.

Wednesday's 6TH race at Aqueduct was another feather in her cap. She had the mount on Toso (Tiger Ridge), a six-year-old mare making her career debut for Daniel Foster, a 9 percent trainer who hasn't won with a first-time starter, and Studdart shot her mount right to the front when the gates opened. The mare rolled home a 3 1/2-length winner, improving Studdart's mark at the Big A to 33-7-6-4 (21 percent win).

It would seem an unlikely crossover but in addition to Maylan you also have part time model Chantel Southerland (http://www.skincareblog.net/2008/08/22/vogue-model-chantal-sutherland-joins-mistura-beauty-as-spokeswoman-for-6-in-1-beauty-solution/) and I'm sure several in between going back to the days of jockey Robyn Smith from the early 1970's (http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8291/index.htm)

At Hawthorne Race Course (http://www.hawthorneracecourse.com/frame.php?c=LIVE%20RACING&f=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.equibase.com%2Fpremium%2FeqbTop LeadersByTrackDisplay.cfm%3FTRK%3DHAW%26CY%3DUSA%2 6STAT%3DJ) the near leader of the jockey standings is Swedish born, 23, Inez Karlsson. She's pretty too but was also a boxer in Sweden (http://www.mouthpiecesports.com/?action=displayMedia&mediaId=390)!

[Glimmerglass]

I'm tacking this on to this thread ...

Maylan Studart is no longer an apprentice rider as of today (3-27) with her 40th victory at the Big A on Thursday ...From the DRF 3-26-09 (http://www.drf.com/news/article/102505.html)

Jockey Maylan Studart officially became a journeymen rider Friday after earning her 40th career victory when she won the Thursday opener aboard Spa Princess ($4.60). Though she's been riding as a seven-pound apprentice, the 20-year-old Studart loses her apprentice status because it took her longer than one year to earn her 40th career win.

The New York Times March 27, 2009 did this profile on her (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/nyregion/27jockey.html?ref=othersports): "A Long Way From Home, Moving at Great Speed"

excerpt

Ms. Studart has adored horses for as long as she can remember, ever since her father first sat her on one when she was a toddler. Over the years, as her family’s fortunes and relations grew unstable and fraught, horses would become her constant, her solace and eventually her escape.

Her parents split up when she was 3, and when she was 7 she moved from Rio to Los Angeles with her mother, stepfather and older brother, who has fragile X syndrome, a cause of mental retardation. Ms. Studart’s stepfather died four years later, so the family returned to Rio, where her father had bought her a horse, Thunderbolt.

She threw herself into riding, racing through mountain trails, taking lessons and show jumping. But by the time she turned 14, Thunderbolt had died, and her mother, who was not working, told her that the family could not afford to pay for her riding activities.

That year, Ms. Studart attended her first horse race, and was transfixed, her heart pounding, as she watched the jockeys compete. “I fell in love,” she recalled. “I wanted to be part of it.”

NYT Photo series on Studart (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/26/nyregion/20090327JOCKEY_index.html)

[Glimmerglass]

I'll park this update here as I've cited Maylan Studart before.

She has ridden to success but then this oddity - not injured while riding but while just petting a horse! Brisnet June 19, 2009 (http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/editorial/news/article.cgi?id=15403)

Jockey Maylan Studart underwent surgery Thursday afternoon at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, to help mend a broken left leg that was the result of an accident at Belmont Park earlier that morning.

According to her agent, Jose Henriquez, Studart was injured at approximately 9:45 a.m. (EDT) while at the barn of trainer Rodrigo Ubillo.

"I was on a two-year-old in the barn and she was walking by," Ubillo explained. "She went to pet the horse and he reared up and his leg came down on top of her."

According to North Shore spokesperson Kristen Longo, Studart remains at the hospital and is in stable condition.

A native of Brazil, the 20-year-old Studart began riding at Aqueduct last fall and had been named to ride three horses at Belmont Park on Thursday.

As an aside I don't believe that the mare Toso (now 7) ever started in another race.

Best wishes for speedy recovery for Maylan!

[Linny]

Get well soon Maylan