Vyjack

Vyjack

Trainer:Rudy R. Rodriguez
Owner: Pick Six Racing
Foaling Date: 2010-02-11
Pedigree: Into Mischief and Life Happened of Stravinsky
Dosage: 6-0-6-2-0 (14)
Dosage Index / CD: 1.80 / 0.71

Notes: Pick Six Racing's Vyjack showed a new dimension when coming from well off the pace to run by his rivals and remain undefeated in the $400,000 G3 Gotham S. over Aqueduct's inner track on 3/2. With the 50 Kentucky Derby qualifying points and $240,000 winner's check, the Rudy Rodriguez trainee now sits in 2 nd -place on the eligibilit y list to run for the roses and has likely secured a spot in the starting gate. New pilot Joel Rosario took hold out of the gate and the gelding relaxed nicely near the back of the pack behind moderate early fractions. He progressed into 8 th of 11 at the half and was still there through three-quar ters when pacesetter West Hills Giant looked poised to kick clear. But Rosario swung his mount five-wide and Vyjack set sail with tremendous accelerati on to blow by his rivals in route to a 2 ¼ -length score and final time of 1:44.09 for the 1 1/16m. He earned 99 and 93 BRIS and Beyer speed numbers, respective ly. Prior to winning the Gotham, the son of Into Mischief took the G2 Jerome S. on 1/5 over the same course. As a juvenile, he won at first asking in a 6 ½ MSW at Aqueduct on 11/10 then followed that up with a dominating victory in the 7f Traskwood S. there a month later on a sloppy surface. Vyjack was bred in Kentucky by Machmer Hall out of the Stravinsky mare Life Happened and foaled on February 11, 2010. He was pinhooked as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipt on Kentucky 2011 select yearling sale for $45,000 by Pike Racing and is the first horse for Pick Six Racing's David Wilkenfeld , who purchased the bay for $100,000 from the 2012 Fasig-Tipt on Midlantic two-year-o lds in training sale. Vyjack, who has amassed career earnings of $442,200, is slated to make his final Kentucky Derby prep in the $1 million G1 Wood Memorial S. at Aqueduct on 4/6.

Statistics

Year	Races Run	Wins	Place	Show	Earnings
2013	2	2	-	-	$360,000
2012	2	2	-	-	$82,200