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| Barbara D. Livingston |
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Ventura, one of the top female runners in the country for two straight years, will be making her final start in the Grade 1, $300,000 Matriarch Stakes next Saturday at Hollywood Park. Ventura most recently finished second in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, but some of her best races have come on turf, especially at one mile, the distance of the Matriarch.
Tribal Belle seemingly wrapped up the Sovereign Award for Canada's champion female sprinter with her victory in Sunday's $156,500 Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine. Tribal Belle hit the front exiting the turn, and then held a game Silver Z at bay through the stretch to prevail by a half-length, in a time of 1:22.29 for seven furlongs.
Groomedforvictory drew off to a 3 1/4-length victory over Naughty New Yorker in Sunday's $67,000 Study Hard Stakes for New York-breds at Aqueduct.
Russell Road reaffirmed his status as the best West Virginia-bred in training by cruising to his fifth straight stakes victory in Saturday night's $51,100 A Huevo Stakes for statebreds at Charles Town.
Twin Sparks set a world record for six furlongs on Saturday at Turf Paradise while winning the $50,000 Caballos del Sol Handicap in 1:06.49.
The highly touted American Lion made the successful jump from the maiden ranks to stakes competition when he scored a half-length victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes on Saturday at Hollywood Park.
Acoma probably earned herself another year of racetrack life when she bounced back from two last-place finishes to post a hard-fought victory Saturday in the 36th running of the Grade 3, $111,700 Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs.
Haynesfield, who four weeks earlier scored his richest victory in the $250,000 Empire Classic against older New York-bred rivals, captured his first graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $103,500 Discovery Handicap for 3-year-olds.
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