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Playing a pick three starting in the sixth race, trying to get some value around heavy favorite Dekalb County in the opening leg:
Ken and Sarah Ramsey were honored as 2014's National Owner of the Year and National Breeder of the Year at the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association's annual awards dinner Friday night at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky. Also walking away with a major piece of hardware were Perry Martin and Steve Coburn, honored as National Small Breeder of the Year.
Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Bayern will be retired at the end of this season to join the stallion roster at Hill 'n' Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., the farm’s John Sikura announced Friday night.
Take a long look at Race 5 and notice the veritable ton of early speed in there. Sure seems like something could rally from off the pace to capitalize. First inclination is that ULTIMATE LUCK fits that bill, but with that voided claim out of his latest at Del Mar, let’s give WITH THE BREEZE (6) and hungry jock Ry Eikleberry a big chance on the drop and slight turnback for the Belvoir barn. He’s a single on a caveman pick three ticket that goes a-spreading in the two subsequent races:
Okie Ride won the $50,000 Remington Park Turf Sprint for the third year in a row on Friday night, when he held off a surging Perfect to Please. Okie Ride won by a half-length over that rival, while it was another three lengths back to Shellac in third.
Pure Country and Broadway Donna, a pair of harness racing’s rising stars, remained undefeated Friday at The Meadows when each captured a Pennsylvania Sires Stake championship.
Mission Brief put on a brilliant display in the second of two Elegantimage eliminations for 3-year-old filly trotters on Friday night at Mohawk Racetrack. Muscle Baby Doll didn’t trot quite as fast as Mission Brief but put in a big effort in the first elimination.
Following heavy afternoon rain on an already saturated turf course, Kentucky Downs announced Friday evening it would postpone Saturday’s 10-race Kentucky Cup card until Monday.
