Things couldn’t have gone any better for trainer Scott Becker in Saturday’s co-featured sprint stakes for Illinois-breds at Hawthorne on Saturday. Becker’s horses ran one-two in both the Third Chance Handicap for fillies and mares, and the Robert Molaro Handicap.
Birdatthewire overcame her early adversity to run by Eskenformoney in the stretch to win the Gulfstream Park Oaks by 1 1/4 lengths.
Be My Caroline continued a family tradition Saturday, when she won the $75,000 Rainbow Miss Stakes at Oaklawn Park just like her older sister, All About Allie, did in 2011. Be My Caroline set the pace, then just withstood a bid from the favorite, Easter Indy, for a nose win in the six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies bred in Arkansas.
First she won on the lead. Then she won by rallying from last. On Saturday, I’m a Chatterbox had a new trick up her girth as she stalked the pace.
If it were up to trainer Christophe Clement, they’d run the Grade 3 Orchid once a month at Gulfstream Park, not just once a year. On Saturday, Clement won the race for a record seventh time when Beauty Parlor made her U.S. debut a winning one, outlasting her uncoupled stablemate, Tabreed, to register a half-length triumph in the 1 1/2-mile turf fixture for older fillies and mares.
Commissioner finally got his first graded stakes victory and did so in game fashion, withstanding a stretch-long battle with the pacesetting Sr. Quisqueyano to register a well-deserved neck victory in the Grade 3 Skip Away on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
Lady Lara showed signs of quality last year as a 3-year-old when she came over from Europe and won a listed stakes at Belmont Park and placed in a graded race at Churchill Downs.
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Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Monday 3/30 card at Woodbine Harness.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Monday 3/30 card at Yonkers Raceway.
