{"id":304874,"date":"2025-07-30T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304874\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:04:11","slug":"tyro-stakes-first-step-toward-breeders-cup-for-john-sadler-trainee-hey-nay-nay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304874\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyro Stakes First Step Toward Breeders\u2019 Cup For John Sadler Trainee Hey Nay Nay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyro Stakes First Step Toward Breeders\u2019 Cup For John Sadler Trainee Hey Nay Nay<\/a> originally appeared on Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Sadler acknowledges that shipping a 2-year-old cross country just for a race like this weekend\u2019s Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., \u201cisn\u2019t for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

But with a horse that he says both needs to run and is ready to run, and with limited options for a 2-year-old grass sprint at this point in the racing calendar, the California-based trainer has sent Hey Nay Nay east for Saturday\u2019s $100,000 five-furlong grass feature race as the next step in an ambitious campaign he has mapped out for the colt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a horse that broke his maiden early, and he is doing very well, and he needs to run,\u201d said Sadler. \u201cThis is a very mature horse. The way you develop young horses is to race them, so this will help his development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t for everybody. You have to have a pretty good horse to do it. This one acts like a 3-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Hey Nay Nay does reach the starting gate Saturday, it will mark the first time since the 2007 Breeders\u2019 Cup that Sadler will run a horse at Monmouth Park. He finished fourth in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Fillies with Tasha\u2019s Miracle that year (after winning the Miss Woodford Stakes on the undercard with Coco Belle).<\/p>\n

Hey Nay Nay, an Irish-bred son of No Nay Never, broke his maiden first asking at Santa Anita on June 1 in a five-furlong grass sprint.<\/p>\n

Sadler has on his radar the Grade 3 Del Mar Juvenile Turf on Sept. 7 or a pair of Kentucky Downs races \u2013 the $1 million Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile on Sept. 7 or the $1 million Juvenile Sprint on Aug. 31 \u2013 for Hey Nay Nay\u2019s next start.<\/p>\n

The ultimate goal, he said, is the Breeders\u2019 Cup at Del Mar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t do a ton with him before his first start,\u201d said Sadler, who entered the week with 2,872 career wins. \u201cHe looked good early in his training, and so I said, \u2018Let\u2019s get him going.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t train him particularly hard, and he won nicely. I think there is plenty of improvement in him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 83rd edition of the Tyro has attracted a field of 10, although the Wesley Ward-trainer first-timer Schwarzenegger is cross-entered at Saratoga on Friday.<\/p>\n

Hey Nay Nay, a $300,000 purchase at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2024, arrived at Monmouth Park on Tuesday. Leading rider Paco Lopez has the mount.<\/p>\n

Sadler said the Tyro \u201cfit in the middle\u201d of his plans after Hey Nay Nay broke his maiden. The colt is owned by Hronis Racing LLC and Iapetus Racing LLC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are more apt to go to Kentucky when we go East these days,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this is a bit of a unique circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n

His hope for Saturday is simply to see Hey Nay Nay take a step forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see improvement after his first race,\u201d he said. \u201cAs long as he runs a good race, we\u2019ll be happy. This will help him get ready for what\u2019s ahead. Hopefully, he will have another race after this and then we end up in the Breeders\u2019 Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Paulick Report<\/a> on Jul 30, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyro Stakes First Step Toward Breeders\u2019 Cup For John Sadler Trainee Hey Nay Nay originally appeared on Paulick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[80266,112162,91464,112163,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-304874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-breeders-cup","9":"tag-john-sadler","10":"tag-monmouth-park","11":"tag-nay-nay","12":"tag-racing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944217972830916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}