Breakin the Fever, a fast New York-bred 3-year-old bred, owned, and trained by Debra Breed, defeated older rivals for the fifth time this year in the $50,000 Leon Reed Memorial at Finger Lakes on Friday.
For Jimmy Toner and his patron, John Phillips, 1999 was the year of Soaring Softly, when the chestnut daughter of Kris S. unfurled a campaign of near perfection. She won seven of eight starts, climaxed by a victory in the first running of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf and an Eclipse Award, which was almost enough to quiet the wound inflicted by a Belmont Park barn fire that killed two Toner horses. Almost.
Championofthenile, who finished third as the favorite in last Sunday’s Bertram F. Bongard Stakes for New York-breds here, will likely make his next start in the $200,000 New York Breeders’ Futurity at Finger Lakes.
Kiaran McLaughlin’s high-priced and high-powered-pedigree juvenile crop has started cranking out winners of late, led by the $2.2 million yearling purchase Mohaymen and the $600,000 2-year-old in-training buy Annual Report.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 10/4 card at Balmoral Park.
Laugh It Up will attempt to win her fifth straight race on Monday while taking on a competitive group of fillies and mares in the $55,000 Chaves County at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M.
There are seven Group 1 races on Sunday’s nine-race program at Longchamp Racecourse, annually the highlight of racing on the French calendar. Three races on the undercard are part of the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In program, and may produce runners for Breeders’ Cup races at Keeneland on Oct. 30 and 31.
As rain came down amid the chill, virtually everyone at Keeneland was hoping that this isn’t the way the month will end. Luis Saez was impervious to all that. The New York-based star jockey swept the meet’s first two races with Don’t Be Mad ($28.60) and Manchurian High ($7.80),
Stormy Lucy, third in the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 26, is a candidate for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
The multiple stakes winner Gabriel Charles has returned to trainer Jeff Mullins’s stable at Santa Anita after undergoing surgery for colic in August.
