Howard Wolowitz Back to Winning Ways in Holiday Cheer

Munnings’ Grade I winning Howard Wolowitz (3c Munnings x Forget Me Not, by Uncle Mo) was back in the winner’s circle Saturday night with a victory in the Holiday Cheer Stakes.

Making his first start since the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, Howard Wolowitz went off as the favorite in the six-furlong synthetic race. The colt broke a step slow from his inside position, but flashed his speed immediately to race up right behind Run Carson.

That runner opened a little over a length on the field coming into the turn and kept that until Howard Wolowitz switched to the outside of the leader. From there, he wore down the pacesetter and rushed past to win by 1 ½ lengths.

It was the third win in six career starts for Howard Wolowitz, who has earned $1,349,960 while trained by Jose Francisco D’Angelo for Gold Square.

A $240,000 Keeneland January short yearling purchase by Joe Hardoon from Clarkland Farm, the Martha Buckner and Matthew Ernst-bred Howard Wolowitz is out of winning Uncle Mo mare Forget Me Not.

Forget Me Not is a half-sister to the multiple stakes winner Needs Supervision and out of the stakes placed Moroccan Rose. She follows a long line of successful broodmares with each of Howard Wolowitz’s first four dams producing stakes performers.

This is the third stakes winner of the month for Munnings, who also had a juvenile graded stakes double at Aqueduct last weekend.