Jockey Tammi Piermarini celebrated her 48th birthday by guiding favored Bluegrass Singer to victory in the inaugural running of the $75,000 Parx Derby on Saturday at the suburban Philadelphia track.
Richard’s Boy rebounded from the first loss of his career last month to win Saturday’s $92,500 Desert Code Stakes for 3-year-olds on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita.
Rivers Run Deep looked like by far the fastest horse on paper and that’s exactly how things played out on the track in Saturday’s $75,000 Edward Babst/Albert Palacios Handicap, the first stakes of the season at Belterra Park.
Private Zone was as brilliant as Bayern was disappointing in a surprising 81st running of the Grade 2, $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes on the Kentucky Derby undercard Saturday.
Tonalist won three graded stakes at Belmont Park last year, and the Tapit colt continued to make “Big Sandy” his personal playground with an eye-catching blowout of Saturday’s Westchester Stakes in his 4-year-old debut.
A lack of other speed and a stumbling start by the favorite combined to help Tepin pull a 9-1, front-running upset in Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs.
Beauty Parlor and Riposte were both sent off at 6-5 in the Grade 2 Sheepshead Bay at Belmont Park on Saturday, with Beauty Parlor a slight favorite in the five-runner field. At the finish, they were fourth and fifth.
Trainer Todd Pletcher said he’s been trying to figure out all along what Dame Dorothy’s optimum distance might be. And after she defeated reigning filly and mare sprint champ Judy the Beauty in Saturday’s seven-furlong Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs, there’s probably little doubt now what that distance is.
After a successful run dominating the Open ranks at the Meadowlands, Melady’s Monet had little trouble dispatching a field of seven competitors in the $62,100 Maturity at The Meadows on Saturday afternoon.
Furia Cruzada won Friday’s Group 1 Gran Premio Criadores at Palermo, Argentina, a victory that gives the 4-year-old filly a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
