Betting on the four Breeders’ Cup races held Friday at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., was up 2.9 percent over betting on the same four races held at Santa Anita Park on the Friday Breeders’ Cup card last year, according to charts of the races.
Trainer Doug O'Neill brought a handful of horses to Keeneland for Breeders' Cup weekend, led by a bevy of Grade 1-performing juveniles. He also brought the old man, 5-year-old gelding Bailoutbobby, who showed his younger stablemates how it's done by pouncing on the far turn and drawing off to win the Grade 2, $200,000 Marathon Stakes on Friday evening at Keeneland.
Stopchargingmaria won a stretch duel with Stellar Wind before surviving a stewards’ inquiry Friday in a dramatic 32nd running of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff before a crowd of 44,947 at Keeneland.
Catch a Glimpse filled one of the few holes in the distinguished resume of multiple Sovereign Award-winning trainer Mark Casse on Friday, providing him with his first Breeders’ Cup victory in winning the Grade 1, $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf at Keeneland.
Seizing the early initiative in a race without a clear-cut pacesetter on paper, Chris DeCarlo hustled America to the lead down the backstretch, and they never looked back in winning Friday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap at Belmont Park.
It was no surprise that Liam’s Map won Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland. It was quite surprising the manner in which he won it.
Representatives of Pennsylvania’s horseracing industry are expected to meet throughout next week in an attempt to resolve concerns raised by the state government over the budget of the racing commission, according to officials who participated in talks this week.
Last midway down the backstretch of the one-mile Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, Hit It a Bomb rallied to win by a neck over Kentucky-based Airoforce.
Race Day is not a horse for all seasons, but on Friday he reverted back to his fine form of the spring with a three-quarter-length victory in the Grade 2, $200,000 Fayette Stakes at Keeneland.
Ol Winedrinker Who will attempt to win his fourth straight race on Monday when he takes on the Kentucky shipper Smack Smack and the multiple stakes winners Isn’t He Clever, Forest Mouse, and Rebranded in the $55,000 Veterans at Zia Park.
