(12/4/04) Seeyoubychance is 32nd NY-bred open 2004 SW
The assault by registered New York-breds on open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes races in 2004 continued on Saturday, December 4 when See You Stable's SEEYOUBYCHANCE captured Pimlico's unrestricted black-type H. Steward Mitchell Stakes for two-year-olds, prevailing by a neck over the 1.60-to-1 Maryland-based stakes-winning favorite, Monster Chaser. Sent off in the six-furlong event as the co-second choice among six juvenile starters at 3.40-to-1 and race-ridden for the third time -- second consecutive -- by Ryan Fogelsonger, the bay gelding broke outward from the outside post and raced three to four wide around the far turn in third place. The contest's other 3.40-to-1 co-second choice, Late Night Lover, set the pace through fractions of 23.32 and 46.90 but drifted out entering the stretch, and by the eighth pole Seeyoubychance had his head in front of that rival while setting a five-eighths fraction of 59.45. In the final furlong, the New York-bred held off the outside charge of Monster Chaser -- already a six-figure earner and coming off a length and a quarter stakes victory at Pimlico against fellow Maryland-breds five weeks earlier -- as the favorite edged Late Night Lover by a neck for second-place money. Fourth choice Malibu Moonshine (4.60-to-1), who along with Monster Chaser had beaten Seeyoubychance in earlier encounters along the mid-Atlantic circuit during the past late summer and early fall, finished a half-length behind Late Night Lover. Seeyoubychance was the second New York-bred winner on Pimlico's Saturday card.
Seeyoubychance's first stakes outing boosted his earnings to $75,604 and improved his record to four wins in eight starts, which also include two consecutive fourth-place efforts at Pimlico during September and October. Trained by Dale Capuano, the rapidly improving two-year-old had debuted at Belmont in June under the ownership of Louis Ulman and trainer Capuano, who had purchased the New York-bred for $16,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2003 September yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland. He had won by four lengths at Charles Town going 4 1/2 furlongs in his second outing, by 5 1/2 at Delaware with a $40,000 claiming price going 5 1/2 furlongs, and by a length and a quarter at Pimlico in a six-furlong allowance optional claiming contest on October 24. In preparation for the H. Steward Mitchell Stakes, trainer Capuano had given the gelding consecutive half-mile "bullet" workouts at Pimlico, drilling him in 47 3/5 on November 21 and in 48 2/5 eight days later on November 29.
Bred by Joseph and Alfred Nastasi of Saratoga Springs, Seeyoubychance is by now-deceased former New York stallion American Chance, who had stood at Kurt Butenhoff's and James Lamonica's Empire Stud, LLC in Hudson but had died in October -- presumably from colic -- after shuttling to Argentina. Progeny from the first of three New York-conceived crops sired by American Chance, who was a multiple Grade 2-winning son of New York record-setting sire Cure the Blues, are current yearlings. Seeyoubychance is the first offspring produced from Gypsy Swap, a Woodman mare that the Nastasis had purchased for $25,000 at Keeneland's 2002 January mixed sale in Lexington, Kentucky when she was carrying Seeyoubychance. Gypsy Swap's dam, Promenade Colony, is a winning daughter of Pleasant Colony and a full sister to multiple Grade 2-winning filly Dance Colony ($504,825) -- as well as a half-sister to Grade 1 winners Another Review ($752,370) and No Review ($634,545).
Seeyoubychance is the 32nd registered New York-bred winner of an open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes in 2004 and the sixth New York-bred open juvenile stakes winner this year, with his black-type tally coming just 13 days after New York-bred two-year-old filly Megascape had captured Aqueduct's Grade 3 Valley Stream. The H. Steward Mitchell was the 38th open stakes event of the year won by a runner registered with the New York Breeding and Racing Program. Those 38 open stakes victories have been scored in ten U.S. states and four countries on two continents. For all of 2003, a total of 20 New York-breds won 23 open stakes events.

Pgm	Horse	Win	Place	Show	Total WPS Pool: $114,106
6	Seeyoubychance	8.80	4.20	2.60
5	Monster Chaser		2.80	2.10
2	Late Night Lover			2.40

Wager Type	Winning Numbers	Payoff	Pool	Carryover
$2 Exacta	6-5	24.40	99,785
$2 Trifecta	6-5-2	77.60	71,770

Pgm	Comment
6	Seeyoubychance: broke outward, circled turn 3-4wd, bid to lead 1/8, long drive
5	Monster Chaser: settled, run between 5/16, waited upper, angled, closed gamely
2	Late Night Lover: away alertly, set pressured pace 2wd, drifted 3wd upper, game
1	Malibu Moonshine: sluggish start, angled out turn, 5wd run past 1/8, outfinished
3	Radical Banker: broke step slow, saved ground, willingly
4	Karbobway: prompted pace 3-wide, 4-wide upper stretch, tired
Footnotes
SEEYOUBYCHANCE broke outward, moved closer three to four wide mid turn, rallied to a short lead in mid stretch, dueled and prevailed in an extended drive. MONSTER CHASER settled early, advanced between rivals mid turn, awaited room entering the lane, angled out nearing the furlong marker and closed gamely. LATE NIGHT LOVER , away alertly, set a pressured pace two wide, drifted three wide entering the lane, was headed in mid stretch, dueled inside of the winner and continued gamely. MALIBU MOONSHINE , sluggish at the break, angled out mid turn, rallied five wide leaving the eighth pole, loomed boldly then flattened out. RADICAL BANKER broke a step slow, saved ground, was put to urging on the turn and continued willingly. KARBOBWAY prompted the pace three wide, was floated four wide into the lane and tired.
Owners:	6 - See You Stable, 5 -Linda S. Gaudet, 2 -Melissa Begley, 1 -Woodrow Marriott, 3 -Robert L. Cole, Jr., 4 - Karkenny, Alex and Levy, Robert P.
Trainers:	6 -Dale Capuano, 5 -Edmond D. Gaudet, 2 -Melissa Begley, 1 -King T. Leatherbury, 3 -Aimee D. Hall, 4 -H. Graham Motion