Domestic Product Secures First G1 Win in Allen Jerkens

It was a second Grade I winner of the Saratoga meet for Practical Joke on Saturday when Domestic Product (3c Practical Joke x Goods and Services, by Paynter) won the Grade I H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes.

Tackling seven furlongs on the dirt, Domestic Product broke with the field before settling with just a few horses beat at the back of the field. World Record set a fast pace up front and Domestic Product was happy to let the leader do the work well in front of him.

Going into the turn, Domestic Product started moving up to be just a few lengths off the leader around the bend, but he still had plenty to do. The colt was taken wide into the stretch and that gave him the running room he needed to tackle the leading Prince of Monaco.

Those two battled to the line, but Domestic Product had a neck advantage where it counted in the end to follow in his sire’s footsteps.

“I thought I was going to be a little closer, to be honest,” jockey Flavien Prat said. “Then, he came on the bridle nicely. From the half mile to the three-eighths pole, I thought I was traveling very well. After that, he was very brave to get the win. I thought it was a great, great effort."

A winner of the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby in March, the Klaravich Stables homebred has a record of six top two finishes in nine starts. Trained by Chad Brown, he also won the Grade III Dwyer Stakes and finished second in the Grade II Holy Bull and Listed Pegasus Stakes.

“This horse has always been a high-quality horse,” Brown said. “I thought enough of him to run him in the Kentucky Derby. I was just commenting to my team, I’ve been around a while and I did the same thing with his father, more or less. Practical Joke ran in the Derby, he had won the Dwyer, cutting the horse back into the Jerkens and he won, it seems like not too long ago. “

Domestic Product is one of two winners from two to race out of Goods and Services, who also produced five-time winner Convertible Freeze. Goods and Services is a half-sister to the stakes winning Kenda and out of the stakes winning Indian Legend. That mare is a full sister to the Grade III winner and Grade I fourth Cherokee Queen – who produced two stakes performers herself.

Two Grade I winners this year puts Practical Joke third among all North American sires while his 21 stakes performers puts him seventh in the group.