Jockamo’s Song, a Louisiana-bred maiden winner in his most recent start Nov. 22, could have been an odds-on allowance race favorite this past week, but his connections scratched from that enticing spot and went instead for the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Sprint. They were rewarded with a victory Saturday at Fair Grounds.
Found Money found his way back to the winner’s circle on Saturday at Los Alamitos, ending a four-race losing streak by tenaciously proving best in the $101,000 King Glorious Stakes for California-bred 2-year-olds.
Richie the Bull scored an impressive 9 1/4-length victory Saturday at Hawthorne in the $65,675 Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity.
A pair of 9-5 shots went nose-to-nose in a thrilling stretch drive Saturday in the $100,000 El Prado Stakes at Gulfstream Park, with Reporting Star out-nodding Aztec Brave on the wire. Beyond the tight photo, the connections of Reporting Star had to wait out a stewards’ inquiry and an objection by Corey Lanerie, the rider of Aztec Brave, before the original result was allowed to stand.
Valid closed out another outstanding season with his fourth stakes victory of the year, a well-deserved three-quarter-length decision over Madefromlucky in Saturday’s $100,000 Harlan’s Holiday at Gulfstream Park.
Saythreehailmary’s fell a length short when finishing second to Sheriffa in a seven-furlong division of the New York Stallion Stakes last month at Aqueduct. Saturday, with a little more distance to work with - and an eight-pound weight concession - Saythreehailmary’s turned the tables on Sheriffa, running by her with 70 yards to go on her way to a 1 1/4 length victory in the $100,000 Bay Ridge Stakes at Aqueduct.
A horse without a rider might have cost String King his fourth win in the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Turf as the valiant Louisiana-bred grass star lost a photo finish in the race Saturday to longshot Hot Zapper.
Nearly three years since winning a Gulfstream Park turf stakes in her North American debut, Tuttipaesi did it again Saturday when she captured the $100,000 South Beach Stakes at the south Florida track.
Smokey Image, the undefeated winner of four sprint stakes in California, has been transferred from trainer Greg James at Golden Gate Fields to Carla Gaines at Santa Anita by owners and breeders Robert and Betty Irvin.
Jockey Felipe Valdez suffered a broken collarbone after being unseated from Giant’s Lexis in Friday’s seventh race at Los Alamitos, track officials said Saturday.
