Texas Red dominates BC Juvenile
With a devastating turn of foot, Texas Red turned Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile into a family affair and created more havoc in the 2-year-old division.
David GreningNov 01, 2014
With a devastating turn of foot, Texas Red turned Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile into a family affair and created more havoc in the 2-year-old division.
Judy the Beauty held off longshot Better Lucky to continue a huge weekend for trainer Wesley Ward when posting a narrow victory Saturday in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita.
Amaranth led throughout Saturday’s $100,250 Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes for female sprinters at Santa Anita, a race transferred from the hillside turf course to the main track because of overnight rain.
At any distance and on almost every surface, speed is dangerous. Dayatthespa proved it again Saturday at Santa Anita in a race that might have been the final start of her career. For sure, the 1 1/4-mile Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf was the longest of her career. And Dayatthespa stole it.
Lukewarm favorite Glenville Gardens went right to the front and kept on going to graduate in style in the $132,250 Display Stakes for 2-year-olds at Woodbine on Saturday.
It won’t quite make up for losing last year’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by a nose with Will Take Charge, but those same connections experienced quite a thrill Saturday when Take Charge Brandi upset the $2 million Juvenile Fillies at 61-1 at Santa Anita.
One last swing at pick four riches as the Santa Anita meet closes and a chance for those licking their wounds from all the Breeders’ Cup activity to get something back.
In potential lead-ins to the Remsen and Demoiselle, 2-year-olds go one mile in a pair of $250,000 stakes on Sunday at Aqueduct: The Grade 2 Nashua is race 3; the Grade 3 Tempted for fillies is race 6.
The Saturday opener became the misnomered Juvenile Turf Sprint, with Ocho Ocho Ocho easily prevailing in a field of seven 2-year-olds by finishing 6 1/2 furlongs in a swift 1:14.57 over a main track rated good.
Hootenanny, the winner of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on Friday, probably will be pointed for a race in England – perhaps the English 2000 Guineas – next spring, trainer Wesley Ward said Saturday.