Serpe and Rosenthal target Saratoga with Berning Rose’s stakes winners
Four Berning Rose siblings are headed toward Saratoga, led by Bernietakescharge, who already won the 1 1/8-mile Critical Eye there in June.
Phil Serpe and Michael Rosenthal have four offspring of Berning Rose in training for potential summer starts at Saratoga, and the family already owns a Saratoga stakes win through Bernietakescharge. That makes this more than a sentimental broodmare angle. It is a live New York-bred line with horses that have already proven they belong in stakes company.
Bernietakescharge put the strongest stamp on the family when she won the Critical Eye Stakes at Saratoga on June 4, 2025. The race was a $200,000 New York-bred stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on dirt, and Bernietakescharge stopped the clock in 1:50.26. She earned it the hard way, setting fast fractions and then turning away rivals. That matters for Saratoga because it shows speed that can carry, not just a one-run gimmick.
Bernieandtherose has already added another stakes win to the broodmare record. She earned her second stakes victory in the $125,000 Maddie May at Aqueduct, giving Berning Rose a second daughter with black-type success in New York. The fact that one sibling has won on the Aqueduct strip and another has handled Saratoga at a route trip on dirt gives the family a profile bettors can actually use. This is not just one horse flaring up. It is a pattern.
The bigger context is even better for the mare’s resume. A New York Thoroughbred Breeders item dated December 28, 2025, said Bernietakescharge capped a strong season in Bay Ridge, extending the line’s New York-bred footprint beyond a single race. Earlier, Bernietakescharge was also pointed toward a Franklin Square target in January 2024, another sign that the family has been on the radar for a while, not just after one breakout.
If Serpe and Rosenthal get all four Berning Rose offspring into Saratoga races, the market will have a real pedigree read. The line has shown stakes ability, dirt aptitude, and the kind of maturity that lets a horse keep showing up in New York spots that matter. That is the difference between a cute family story and a bloodline worth betting: Berning Rose has already produced winners who can carry their form into the Saratoga meet.
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