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Snoopy Blues sings winning tune
January 21, 2002
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Running last on the backstretch with 10 horses in front of him, David Cassidy's SNOOPY BLUES moved five-wide on the second turn and drew clear to win by 2 1/2 lengths in Aqueduct's fifth race on Monday, a $42,000 restricted maiden special for three-year-olds going a mile and an eighth. It was the second score on the day's card for jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr., who also rode New York-bred Stage Drama to victory in the second race. Arroyo had been on board when Snoopy Blues made his racing debut on December 1 at Aqueduct, finishing fourth at seven furlongs after also being last in the early running. The New York-bred colt's first win earned $25,200 for television and singing star Cassidy, who last August at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga preferred yearling sale paid $117,000 for another New York-bred colt.
Snoopy Blues, who has picked up checks in all three of his starts, now has total earnings of $28,920. Trained by Gary Contessa, Snoopy Blues was half of an entry favored at 1.30-to-1, with two other entries bringing the number of wagering interests in the 11-horse race to eight.
Snoopy Blues was purchased for $25,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's August 2000 sale of yearlings in Florida, with Robert Slack signing the sales slip as agent. His breeder, Einer Paul Robsham of Cochituate, Massachusetts, qualified for a $5,040 breeder award as a result of the colt's victory. Robsham raced Snoopy Blues' winning dam, New York-bred Deputy Snoop, and Snoopy Blues is the mare's third offspring and third winner, being a full brother to one of those winners. Deputy Snoop, who is by twice-leading North American sire Deputy Minister and out of stakes-placed winner Star Snoop, by Stage Door Johnny, won by three lengths at a mile at Aqueduct as a two-year-old in 1993.
Snoopy Blues is from the last crop of record-setting New York sire Cure the Blues, who stood at Dr. Jonathan Davis' Milfer Farm in Unadilla from the 1994 breeding season until his death in January of 1999, siring 80 stakes winners to date. Snoopy Blues' victory qualified the connections of Cure the Blues for a $1,764 stallion award.
