The 3-year-old filly Lady Fog Horn closed out a standout season at Indiana Grand by rolling to her fourth straight stakes victory in the $150,000 Frances Slocum for Indiana-bred fillies and mares Saturday night.
Crittenden appears ready for a return to graded stakes next month after winning the second stakes of his career in Saturday’s $82,150 Let It Ride Stakes at Del Mar.
Meshell, making her stakes debut, capped a big weekend for Florent Geroux, rallying to win by a neck in the $100,000 Fort Springs Stakes for 3-year-old fillies as darkness fell at Keeneland on Saturday.
Following another dominating performance aboard American Pharoah, this time in Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, Victor Espinoza got off the Triple Crown winner one last time and waved to an appreciative, raucous crowd at Keeneland.
From his vantage point in the paddock, surrounded by family and friends, Ahmed Zayat turned his head away from the television screen as American Pharoah cruised through midstretch, his record-setting victory in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic all but assured at that point, and began to well up with emotion.
We, all of us in this great game, owe trainer Bob Baffert and the Zayat family a tremendous debt of gratitude for giving American Pharoah the opportunity to thrill us one last time in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
Total handle on the 13 Breeders’ Cup races held Friday and Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington was down marginally compared with handle on the same races last year at Santa Anita, according to charts of the races, despite the appearance of superstar American Pharoah in the final race of his career.
They had won the Triple Crown and now had just seen American Pharoah go out a winner in his career finale in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. Trainer Bob Baffert, who had been an emotional wreck much of the week, stepped onto the sandy loam of Keeneland as Victor Espinoza, American Pharoah’s jockey, brought the bay colt to a halt just outside the winner’s circle.
Watchyourownbobber paid $16.40 for his frontrunning win Saturday in the $75,000 Showing Up Stakes at Gulfstream Park West.
Wallace Dollase, who trained the 1990s champions Itsallgreektome and Jewel Princess, died in Kentucky on Friday after a lengthy illness.
