BY BROCK SHERIDAN<\/b><\/p>\n
According to a segment in TDN Writer\u2019s Room Podcast<\/a>, Florida-bred Bentornato<\/a> achieved the fastest Beyer Speed Figure in the North America last week with the 108 number he achieved in winning the $267,500 Louisville Thoroughbred Society Stakes (Listed)<\/a> at Churchill Downs on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The 4-year-old son of Valiant Minister, who stands at Bridlewood Farm<\/a>, vied with the speedy Skelly through a half-mile in :44.24 before kicking clear in the stretch to win by five-and-a-quarter lengths under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr<\/a>. Bentornato completed six furlongs in 1:08.63 in making his first since last November when second by a half-length to Straight No Chaser in the $1.84 million Cygames Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint (Grade 1)<\/a> at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.<\/p>\n Bentornato is trained by Jose D\u2019Angelo<\/a> and improved his career record to six wins in 10 starts with two seconds and two thirds. He has earned $1,282,180 for owner Angelo Lozano of Miami, Fla., who races in the name of Leon King Stable Corp<\/a>. In addition to the Louisville Thoroughbred Society, Bentornato counts victories in the 2024 Gallant Bob (G2)<\/a> at Parx Racing, and in the Dr. Fager<\/a> and Affirmed<\/a> divisions of the 2023 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes<\/a> at Gulfstream Park. He also won the $90,000 Proud Man<\/a> at Gulfstream Park in 2023.<\/p>\n D\u2019Angelo said after the Louisville Thoroughbred Society victory that plans are to return Bentornato to Del Mar for this year\u2019s Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n Bentornato is out of Her Special Way, by Put It Back and was bred in Florida by Tanma Corp<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 108 Beyer is also a career best for Bentornato, who\u2019s previous top figure was a 102 achieved in last year\u2019s Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint. It is the second best Beyer number among Florida-breds this year, behind only the 109 Bring Theband Home produced in winning the $150,000 Harvey Pack (Listed)<\/a> going five-and-a-half furlongs on the turf in :59.90 at Saratoga Race Course on July 4.<\/p>\n Return to the September 18 issue of\u00a0Wire to Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY BROCK SHERIDAN According to a segment in TDN Writer\u2019s Room Podcast, Florida-bred Bentornato achieved the fastest Beyer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115226479714917514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434105","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=434105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}