Danzig Moon euthanized after fracturing leg in Plate Trial
Danzig Moon, the fifth-place finisher in this year’s Kentucky Derby, sustained a fatal injury while favored in Sunday’s Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine.
Ron GierkinkJun 14, 2015
Danzig Moon, the fifth-place finisher in this year’s Kentucky Derby, sustained a fatal injury while favored in Sunday’s Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine.
Amaranth won her 2015 debut in a 43-1 upset in Sunday’s $82,000 Desert Stormer Stakes at Santa Anita, the first time she was ridden in a race by jockey William Antongeorgi.
That’s Who won the ninth stakes race of his career on Sunday, when he fought for a neck win over Shining Source in the $60,000 University of New Mexico Handicap at the Downs at Albuquerque.
Cactus Kris held off a late bid by Disco Barbie to earn her third straight victory in Sunday night’s $100,000 Satin and Lace Stakes for fillies and mares at Presque Isle Downs.
Academic, a 66-1 supplement trained by Reade Baker, led all the way to capture Sunday’s $500,800 Woodbine Oaks, lowering the nine-furlong Polytrack record in the process.
Lady Jila won the $40,000 Molly Brown Stakes for the second year in a row on Sunday, when she came back for a head win over Stormquility in the feature at Arapahoe Park.
Celestine showed she has guts to go along with her talent, holding off a late charge from Partisan Politics to win Sunday’s $100,000 Wild Applause Stakes by a nose at Belmont Park.
Fast Flying Rumor, making his turf debut, outsprinted odds-on favorite Souper Colossal to score a surprising front-running victory in Sunday’s $60,000 Select Stakes for 3-year-old turf sprinters at Monmouth Park.
Danish Dynaformer ($9.90) rallied with determination to notch his first stakes Sunday at Woodbine in the $151,600 Plate Trial, in which the favored Danzig Moon suffered a fatal breakdown.
Jac’s Fact made up a four-length deficit in the final furlong to overtake heavily favored Rivers Run Deep in Sunday’s $75,000 Sydney Gendelman Memorial Handicap for Ohio-breds at Belterra Park.