Force the Pass best by a head in Penn Mile
It wasn't pretty but Force the Pass got the job done in the Grade 3, $500,000 Penn Mile, rallying hard late to overtake Night Prowler in deep stretch and win by a head.
Jim DunleavyMay 30, 2015
It wasn't pretty but Force the Pass got the job done in the Grade 3, $500,000 Penn Mile, rallying hard late to overtake Night Prowler in deep stretch and win by a head.
Golden Lad turned what looked like a wide-open Mountainview Handicap into a one-sided affair by opening a large lead in upper stretch and then easily holding off a late run by Kid Cruz to win by five lengths.
The $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 27 has its favorite.
He hit the side of the gate at the start, raced extremely wide, and was closer to the pace than he previously had been. The only similarity to this race and Divisidero’s previous three starts was his devastating closing kick.
An attempted work stoppage by valets and gate-crew members who are part of a disaffected union caused only a short delay in the Penn National card on Saturday night.
Spanish Queen gave jockey Brice Blanc more thrills than observers could have known in Saturday’s $400,250 American Oaks at Santa Anita.
Jockey Abel Castellano Jr. found an opening, took Saucy Don between horses, and he got up by a head to win the six-furlong John B. Reilly Handicap at Monmouth Park.
Evangeline Downs management cancelled the remainder of Saturday’s 12-race Evangeline Turf Sprint program after torrential rains hit the area following the first race. The skies opened just as the horses were arriving to the paddock for the second race, and following almost an hour delay, the decision was made to pull the plug on the meeting’s biggest card.
Lockout rallied from the back of the pack under a textbook ride from Gary Boulanger to take the Grade 2, $212,800 Connaught Cup Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday.
Unraced since running third behind Finnegans Wake in the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup on Nov. 27, The Pizza Man showed no signs of rust when returning in the $57,672 Opening Verse Stakes at Churchill Downs , winning by 2 1/2 lengths