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Nezuko Kamado S found the winner's circle in her first start since claiming the Grade 1 Hambletonian Oaks earlier in the month when she launched off cover for a 1:51 1/5 victory in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for sophomore trotting fillies on Sunday night (Aug. 30) at The Red Mile.
The time to distribute over $3 million to the best Pennsylvania-sired youngsters, by age, sex, and gait, will come this week after the last of the preliminary rounds, the fourth and final leg for 3-year-old male trotters, raced in Sire Stakes and Stallion Series competition on Sunday afternoon at Harrah's Philadelphia, which will host the 3-year-old Sire Stakes Championships and consolations next Sunday, September 6. Stakes purses on the afternoon totaled $138,604.
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Rabeeba extended her unbeaten streak to three races with a come-from-behind win in Sunday’s Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes at a mile for 3-year-old fillies at Del Mar.
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Seneca Park busted straight to the lead and dominated her debut last month at Ellis Park, and her trainer, Dallas Stewart, wasn’t sweating the possibility the filly would fall into a different kind of trip Sunday at Kentucky Downs in the Untapable Stakes.
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Trainer Rusty Arnold's aim was Kentucky Downs, where Plensa last summer had won the Gun Runner Stakes, and on Sunday, Plensa hit dead center of the target, capturing the $492,500 Tapit Stakes by a half-length.
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Twinkle Town, the impressive six-length winner of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on Aug. 1 who was scheduled to run in Sunday’s Grade 1 Hopeful, will miss that stakes due to a slight injury, trainer Kenny McPeek said Sunday.
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Even when he’s not on the best horse, Manny Franco finds the winner’s circle at Saratoga.
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King’s Counsel earned his diploma in style for owner/trainer Barbara Minshall in Sunday’s $300,500 Simcoe, one of four lucrative stakes on the Woodbine card for graduates of Canadian yearling sales.
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Jockeys Manny Franco and John Velazquez, the riders of Travers one-two finishers Leading Change and Napoleon Solo, respectively, face penalties after each was cited for using the whip more times than permitted during the Travers Stakes at Saratoga.
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Mark Casse-trained Paramount Prince added to his impressive resume on Sunday at Woodbine when taking the inaugural running of the $150,000 Caledon Stakes by a convincing 2 3/4 lengths.
