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P H Supercam remained perfect, while Domethatagain, Fat Mans Alley and Take It Back Terry posted upsets in Saturday night Levy action from Yonkers Raceway.
The tough trips that Talco encountered in many of his initial forays in U.S. racing are starting to even out. Talco lost his first five starts in this country, bad trips impacting him several times, but he has now won two straight following his late-running victory in the $82,000 Thunder Road Stakes, which closed out the 11-race Santa Anita Derby card Saturday.
It only seemed like Sheer Pleasure was all over the place on the turn and in the stretch of Saturday’s $201,000 Evening Jewel Stakes at Santa Anita. She was 11th on the turn, raced wide through the final sixteenth, and rallied to take the lead in the final strides while sharply drifting to the inside late. The result was what mattered. Sheer Pleasure won the first stakes of her career in the Evening Jewel Stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies.
Kaleem Shah is a student of racing. He studies pedigrees. He studies the history. So, even though his colt Dortmund already had earned enough points to run in the Kentucky Derby prior to the Santa Anita Derby on Saturday, what Shah wanted as much as anything – the $600,000 winner’s share, confirmation that he has the best 3-year-old racing in California – was for Dortmund to keep his unbeaten record intact heading into the Kentucky Derby.
A new distance and a few former Southern California runners could not derail Az Ridge, who confirmed himself as the top grass stayer at Turf Paradise by easily capturing Saturday’s $35,000 Wildcat Handicap.
It’s only the first of April, and Spirit of Xian already has had an eventful year at Santa Anita. She was third in her American debut in the Sweet Life Stakes in February and missed the China Doll Stakes after she flipped in the gate moments before the March 7 race.
Include Betty launched a powerful closing bid in the Grade 3, $400,000 Fantasy, then withstood a claim of foul for a neck win in the Kentucky Oaks prep that opened the Racing Festival of the South on Saturday at Oaklawn Park. Include Betty earned 100 eligibility points for the Kentucky Oaks with the win, which came before an estimated on-track crowd of 18,000.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin pulled out all the stops when it came to preparing Frosted for Saturday’s Grade 1 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and now his next stop will be Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May. Frosted, who inexplicably flopped in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park in February, rebounded in a big way Saturday, rallying from off the pace while wide to win the $1 million Wood Memorial by two lengths over longshot Tencendur.
