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Last season's Horse of the Year Beau Jangles and this season's North American earnings leader Brandon Blvd both uncorked front-stepping 1:47 2/5 efforts to win their respective $79,000 divisions of the Grade 3 Bluegrass Stakes for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Saturday afternoon (Oct. 3) at The Red Mile.
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Good to Be King benefited from a blistering fast early pace, rallying down the center of the course to a popular one-length victory over Regent’s Park in Saturday’s Grade 3 Futurity for 2-year-olds going six furlongs over the Belmont turf.
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Winterfell has spent much of his 12-race career bouncing between the coasts, but his stays in Maryland for trainer Brittany Russell have always been fortuitous. Back home at Laurel Park, where he remains unbeaten in three starts, the 5-year-old proved overwhelming again in the $100,000 Polynesian Stakes on Saturday.
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Hope Hill turned the tables after a 3 1/2 length defeat to Brett Pelling's star sophomore pacing filly Miss Jum Jabber in the Kentucky Championship Series final when she overpowered her late in the stretch for a 1:49 victory in the second of the cohort's $151,000 Grade 3 Bluegrass Stakes on Saturday (Oct. 3) at The Red Mile.
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The 2-year-old U. S. S. Valor confirmed that he is indeed racing’s newest superstar on Saturday, validating his monster maiden victory at Saratoga last month with an extremely impressive 6 1/2-length victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park.
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The aptly named Victory Achieved dominated a solid group in Saturday’s Grade 2 Nearctic at Woodbine with Rafael Hernandez aboard for the gelding’s first stakes success for Woodbine’s leading trainer Mark Casse.
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Mrs D could be Breeders’ Cup-bound after she upset the heavily favored Go for Launch in Saturday’s Grade 3 Algonquin Stakes for 2-year-olds at Woodbine.
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Best race to best race, Evanescence could not beat Echo Sound or, even more so, Eclatant. Neither of those horses had their best day Saturday at Keeneland, where Evanescence wore down pacesetting Praying to win the Grade 2, $400,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes by a neck.
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Fresh off a Grade 2 score at Santa Anita, the favored Warming doubled up on Saturday at Woodbine in the Grade 2, $202,000 Dance Smartly for fillies and mares.
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Headed at the furlong grounds, Joe Shiesty reclaimed the lead 100 yards from the finish and won the Woodford Stakes by a half-length on Saturday at Keeneland.
