Chad Brown is believed by many to train the top turf mare in North America in Stephanie’s Kitten, and after a widening 2 1/2-length victory from his charge Ball Dancing in Saturday’s Grade 1 Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, a case could be made that he now trains the top two.
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Wagon Full of Gold, seventh and eighth in his two previous stakes appearances, added to a highly successful meet at Sunland Park for Quarter Horse trainer Wesley Giles when he scored an 11-1 upset in Saturday’s Grade 2, $103,650 New Mexico Challenge Championship.
Serious Talk, a Kentucky shipper who graduated for $32,000 at Woodbine last year, caught a determined Jacks Escarpment late to take Saturday’s opening-day feature, the $131,500 Woodstock Stakes.
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BOLD CONQUEST (#5, 20-1) has trained quite forwardly for the Arkansas Derby and appears to be a horse sitting on a big race. He might be one to use right underneath horse-to-beat AMERICAN PHAROAH (#6, 1-2).
Until Saturday, the only stakes victory for Katie’s Eyes had come in a restricted race for horses with a Mississippi connection. But her profile changed substantially when the Kentucky-bred filly rolled to victory in the $100,000 Giant’s Causeway on the Keeneland turf, defeating a couple of top female turf sprinters in the process.
Trainer Tim Hamm collected his sixth Ohio Horse of the Year title in the past 10 years when his filly Needmore Flattery repeated as the state’s champion Thoroughbred for 2014.
Protonico led throughout to roar to a five-length victory as the favorite in the Grade 3, $150,000 Ben Ali Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Keeneland.
Many Clouds, the 163-pound second highweight, gave jockey Leighton Aspell his second consecutive win in the $1,469,200 Grand National steeplechase at 4 7/16ths miles at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England on Saturday.
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As if Untapable’s win in the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap on Friday at Oaklawn Park weren’t enough excitement for Winchell Thoroughbreds and trainer Steve Asmussen, the champion became a big sister Saturday.
