Lucci’s Prize edged 3-5 favorite Renee’s Passion in the late stages for a nose win in the $40,000 Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders Oaks at Arapahoe Park on Saturday.
The fire that made Serena’s Song one of the most remarkable racemares of her generation hasn’t faded over the years.
Street Gem won a second straight turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Monmouth Park, taking the $66,000 Desert Vixen by 1 1/4 lengths over Jean’s Surprise on Saturday.
As well as Palace Malice ran winning the Belmont Stakes, his connections felt his performance in Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga may have been better.
Twenty-four years after winning his first Grade 1 stakes at Saratoga with the speedy filly Safely Kept, trainer Alan Goldberg got his second, this time with the long-distance turf specialist Laughing who led throughout Saturday’s $600,000 Diana.
Title Contender was kept just to the outside of pacesetting Mongolian Saturday until upper stretch and then rallied to win the Grade 3, $100,000 Ohio Derby on Saturday afternoon at Thistledown.
The three-year-old pacer was confidently handled to victory in the Pace for the Orchids.
Five Iron ($8) survived a claim of foul to capture the $127,750 Toronto Cup Stakes in front-running style under Luis Contreras at Woodbine on Saturday.
Gentlemen’s Bet and Delaunay, the top two finishers from the Iowa Sprint Handicap, both worked at Saratoga on Saturday in advance of their rematch in next Sunday’s Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap.
Mucho Macho Man and Alpha completed their final preparations for next Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney Handicap with five-furlong workouts that took place nearly four hours apart here on Saturday morning.
