Candy Man’s Girl capitalized on the misfortune of heavily favored Get the Sensation to score in Saturday night’s $50,000 Sylvia Bishop Memorial Stakes for West Virginia-bred 3-year-old fillies at Charles Town.
Beholder made Del Mar history on Saturday with an emphatic win in Saturday’s $1 million Pacific Classic, becoming the first female to win the track’s signature race.
Closing from last in a field of eight, Big John B rallied four-wide entering the stretch and caught leader Ashleyluvssugar in the final strides to win the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf for the second consecutive year.
Page McKenney, racing on turf for the first time in 11 months, withstood bids from a pair of longshots to win Saturday night’s $75,000 Robellino Stakes for Pennsylvania-breds at Penn National.
Finally, in his last start of the summer, there was a stakes win awaiting Appealing Tale in Saturday’s $245,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes at Del Mar.
In his younger days, trainer Tony Dutrow wouldn’t have run Embellish the Lace in the Grade 1 Alabama coming off such a dreadful performance in the filly’s previous start.
Ben’s Cat won the Mister Diz for the sixth straight year at Laurel Park on Saturday. The Mister Diz was one of four $60,000 stakes on the card for Maryland-bred or Maryland-sired runners.
Delightful Joy finished with a sharp late run to win the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks on Sunday, defeating the 5-2 favorite Eskenformoney by 1 3/4 lengths.
Shogood got keyed up before the Arlington-Washington Futurity, didn’t come back to jockey Chris Emigh as quickly as the rider would have liked after making the lead – and still won the Grade 3, $100,000 race by 2 1/2 lengths.
Don’t Leave Me left them in her wake Saturday at Woodbine in the $159,700 Ontario Colleen, winning the Grade 3 stakes decisively under Eurico Da Silva.
