Awesome Slate romps in Canadian Juvenile
Awesome Slate paid $2.80 for his impressive win in the $50,000 Canadian Juvenile at Northlands Park on Saturday.
Randy GouldingOct 24, 2015
Awesome Slate paid $2.80 for his impressive win in the $50,000 Canadian Juvenile at Northlands Park on Saturday.
Om confirmed his status as the leading 3-year-old on turf in California with a comfortable win in Saturday’s $200,750 Twilight Derby at Santa Anita.
Winning Vision, the heavy favorite off some good Southern California form, including a win Sept. 20 at Los Alamitos, had little trouble validating that support as she proved an easy winner Saturday in the $35,000 Princess of Palms at Turf Paradise.
Dortmund won his first start in more than five months in Saturday’s $75,580 Big Bear Stakes at Santa Anita.
Invading Humor, under Jose Lezcano, led every step of the way to pull the 29-1 upset while her younger sister, Distorted Beauty, overcame trouble to get up for second.
Graham Motion is from England and Edgar Prado from Peru, but their foundations in American racing are closely intertwined from the late 1980s in Maryland.
Wonder Gal has been has been a very consistent runner against top company and has been Grade 1-placed four times. Surprisingly, she came into the $250,000 Empire Distaff at Belmont Park on Saturday with only a single career victory. She is now 2 for 9 for trainer Leah Gyarmati and $150,000 richer.
On a New York Showcase card that produced mostly predictable results, the aptly named Super Surprise garnered her first career victory in the $250,000 Maid of the Mist Stakes for New York-bred juvenile fillies.
Kitten’s Dumplings paid $4.60 for her relative easy two-length win over Zloty in the $75,000 Little Miss Magic Stakes for fillies and mares at Gulfstream Park West on Saturday.
There have been more renewals of the Lubash-Kharafa rivalry than there have been “Rocky” movies. Unlike those films, however, the action never is boring, and the results are not always predictable.