Are You Kidding Me wins Eclipse with furious late rally
Are You Kidding Me mowed down the 2013 Queen’s Plate winner Midnight Aria in the final sixteenth to take the Grade 2 Eclipse Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday.
Ron GierkinkJun 07, 2015
Are You Kidding Me mowed down the 2013 Queen’s Plate winner Midnight Aria in the final sixteenth to take the Grade 2 Eclipse Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday.
Even Bob Baffert’s second-string 3-year-olds are winning stakes this weekend.
Trainer Carl O’Callaghan, who won the $2 million Golden Shaheen in Dubai in 2010 with Kinsale King, was suspended by Santa Anita stewards Sunday for failing to appear at a hearing regarding an unpaid debt.
Warren’s Veneda is likely to start against the two-time champion Beholder in Saturday’s $100,000 Adoration Stakes at Santa Anita, a race not expected to include the recent Grade 1 winner My Sweet Addiction, their trainers said Sunday.
William Buick, who rode Prince Bishop to victory in the $10 million Dubai World Cup in March, has been named to ride California Chrome in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot in England on June 17, trainer Art Sherman said on Sunday.
Though there was a predictable drop-off in handle, Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, for the most part, was logistically, aesthetically, and historically a success for the New York Racing Association, officials said.
American Pharoah, the Triple Crown winner, came out of his stirring Belmont Stakes victory Saturday in excellent condition, traveled back to Churchill Downs on Sunday for a two-week holiday, and will return to his usual base in Southern California before the remainder of his racing career is mapped out, trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday.
The overnight rating for NBC’s Belmont Stakes broadcast Saturday was a 12.3, down 5 percent from the 12.9 overnight rating posted for last year’s broadcast, according to figures released by the network Sunday.
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Breaking sharply under leading rider Colby Hernandez, California invader Mystery Train took command at the start and did not look back in capturing Saturday night’s Evangeline Mile. The favored Stormdriver rallied to challenge the winner in midstretch but could not get by and settled for second, three-quarters of a length back. The longshot Skipberry finished another 4 3/4 lengths behind in third.