Timonium: Potts takes training title
Maryland trainer Wayne Potts won his first career training title at Timonium, winning five races at the seven-day meet and defeating Kieron Magee and Kevin Patterson by one winner.
Jim DunleavySep 08, 2015
Maryland trainer Wayne Potts won his first career training title at Timonium, winning five races at the seven-day meet and defeating Kieron Magee and Kevin Patterson by one winner.
Del Mar’s summer meeting ended on Monday showing a gain in overall handle, owing to four more racing days than a year ago, but the year-to-year daily averages for both attendance and handle, especially on-track, slipped.
As if he needed an encore performance for what he’d accomplished already on Monday, trainer Doug O’Neill won his second stakes race of the day at Del Mar and his third overall when British invader Jakaby Jade made a successful U.S. debut, capturing the $101,500 Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf.
A summer to remember for trainer Doug O’Neill and owner Paul Reddam ended with a day they’ll never forget as they swept Monday’s Grade 1 stakes for 2-year-olds at Saratoga and Del Mar, first with upsetter Ralis in the Hopeful and then, hours later, with heavily favored Nyquist here in the $300,250 Del Mar Futurity.
Jess Good Candy remained undefeated in four career starts on Monday when he won the Grade 1, $3 million All American Futurity, the most prestigious race offered for 2-year-old Quarter Horses. Jess Good Candy overcame a less-than-ideal start for a neck win over the favored One Fabulous Guy in the classic that closed out the meet at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.
Fear of the Cat was the only favorite to win a CTHS Sales Stakes at Hastings on Monday. The four races restricted to Canadian-breds sold at a CTHS-B.C. Division sale were worth $60,000 each.
One year in the life of Living The Life apparently has not changed her at all, unless the 5-year-old mare, an Irish-bred imported from England in 2014, is better now than then.
Ol Winedrinker Who won the $100,000 Ruidoso Downs Thoroughbred Championship for the second year in a row on Monday, overtaking pacesetter Bourbon Sense for a 2 1/4-length victory. Bourbon Sense held second, finishing six lengths clear of 4-5 favorite Isn’t He Clever.
The favored Alert Bay ($4.80) got a perfect stalking trip behind G. G. Ryder, then outran that one in the lane to score in the $63,605 Rolling Green Stakes on turf at Golden Gate Fields on Monday.
Gulfstream Park had a mandatory payout in the Rainbow 6 jackpot on Monday, and tickets with all six winners paid $261,743.60 each. There were 62 tickets that had the first five winners going into the final leg Monday, according to a release from Gulfstream. The sequence ran on races 6-11, and the winning numbers were 11-6-9-9-4-13.