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Accelerize aced his stakes debut, winning the Grade 3, $175,000 Louisiana Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds by a half-length, denying odds-on favorite Just a Touch an overdue first stakes victory.
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Kupuna became a stakes winner in the $100,000 Colonel E. R. Bradley on Saturday at Fair Grounds when he moved past favorite Lagynos in the later stages for a 1 1/4-length win.
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Vodka Vodka’s first stakes win in Saturday’s $175,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic for older California-breds at Santa Anita may lead to his Grade 1 debut in the $300,000 Santa Anita Handicap on March 7.
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The trainer Kenny McPeek often buys horses at auction on a bigger budget these days, but to some extent he made his name finding lower-priced yearlings who turned into runners – horses like Taken By the Wind, who led all the way on a walking pace and captured the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes by a neck Saturday at Fair Grounds.
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For the first time in 11 months, Mid-Atlantic star Quint’s Brew left the track a winner, making a belated move to win the $100,000 Jennings Stakes by a nose at Laurel Park on Saturday.
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Neoequos showed a couple of new dimensions –the ability to handle the grass as well as the ability to rate and win from off the pace – when rallying to a two-length victory over Seminole Chief in Saturday’s $75,000 Sunshine Turf at Gulfstream Park.
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Man O Rose crushed three rivals in the $122,500 Don Valpredo California Cup Sprint; his nine-length romp was the most lopsided of his 11 for 18 career. Regular rider Edwin Maldonado rode Man O Rose ($3.60 favorite) for trainer Jeff Mullins and owner-breeder Bruce Zietz.
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Usually Wrong is an unusually fast turf sprinter. So fast that no horse has run 5 1/2 furlongs over the Fair Grounds grass course faster than Usually Wrong, who clocked a course-record 1:01.63 going wire to wire in the $100,000 Duncan Kenner Stakes on Saturday.
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The final five races of Saturday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct were canceled due to snow that led to adverse track conditions, according to the New York Racing Association.
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Derick Giwner and Wes Mayberry were named the winners of the 2025 John Hervey Awards for excellence in harness racing journalism while Clive Cohen swept the George Smallsreed Awards for photography and Horse Racing Alberta and Shine Light Entertainment was selected the winner of the Sam McKee Award for broadcasting, the U.S. Harness Writers Association announced Saturday.
