Steve Margolis entered Geothermal in an allowance race for Friday at Churchill Downs, but the race didn’t fill. It wound up being a stroke of great fortune, as Geothermal, running one day later, outgamed Departing in a 12-1 upset Saturday in the $175,000 Lukas Classic.
Next Shares cut the early pace to the far turn of Saturday's Pilgrim Stakes. Several lead changes later, it was Isotherm who emerged from a cavalry charge through the stretch to prevail by a neck over Azar in the Grade 3, $200,000 turf race for 2-year-olds.
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Saham didn’t look like a winner for nearly two-thirds of the running of Saturday’s $100,000, Grade 3 Jefferson Cup at Churchill Downs, racing wide in the rear half of the pack behind a dawdling early pace.
After watching La Verdad record a front-running, half-length victory in a very fast time of 1:15.16 for 6 1/2 furlongs in the Gallant Bloom, trainer Linda Rice indicated that the La Verdad is indeed Breeders’ Cup bound.
Wedding Toast came back from her 16-week hiatus like she'd never left.
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Just in time for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Tapiture ran a corker Saturday for his first victory in more than a year when capturing the 23rd running of the Grade 3, $100,000 Ack Ack at Churchill Downs.
Full Salute, the beaten favorite in his first two stakes appearances, got the job done Saturday as the 6-5 choice in the $150,000 Hall of Fame Stakes for 2-year-olds at Parx Racing.
Jac’s Fact strengthened his credentials as 2015’s best Ohio-bred when he collected his fourth stakes win of the ThistleDown season and seventh victory in 11 starts overall this year in Saturday’s $75,000 Catlaunch Stakes.
The 2015 renewal of the Keeneland September yearling sale took a new path to arrive at essentially the same place. Figures remained in step with the past two renewals despite a somewhat reformatted schedule to kick off the auction, with highlights including an increased number of six-figure transactions and once again tying the sale-record median.
Trainer Marty Wolfson hasn’t had Prayed For in his barn very long. But he had her long enough to tweak her running style, a change that paid big dividends when the homebred daughter of Dynaformer rallied to a 1 1/4-length victory over fellow longshot Claiming Victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Panama City Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
