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Oaklawn Park put the spotlight on sprinters Saturday with Tejano Twist closing from last to win the Grade 3, $250,000 Whitmore in hand and Goodall rolling to a 4 1/2-length win in the $150,000 Purple Martin.
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Sunday’s $1 Coast-to-Coast Pick Five, featuring three races at Gulfstream Park and two from Santa Anita, has a carryover of $119,873.
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The $500,000 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs on Saturday more closely resembled a grand melee at the top of the stretch, with eight horses madly scrambling for racing room that didn’t exist. It was a field without order, a race without a true leader.
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The 18-1 Twirling Queen showed she was back on top of her game while leading a parade of longshots across the finish line, registering a 1 1/2-length victory over the 32-1 Me Governor in Saturday’s $125,000 Captiva Island Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
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Ahead of the $250,000 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs, trainer Bob Baffert said that if Bottle of Rouge was good enough to be a Kentucky Oaks contender, she would show him. It’s impossible to argue that she hurt her case on Saturday.
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Sumter won Saturday’s Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes at Santa Anita in his own way. In the stretch of the turf sprint at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside course, jockey Mike Smith struck Sumter once with his whip, but did not get a favorable response from the 7-year-old gelding.
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Fulmine was claimed for $50,000 out of his maiden win at 2 and is now a stakes winner after rallying to a 2 3/4-length victory over Wootun Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the $125,000 Hutcheson Stakes.
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On Saturday, at Aqueduct, Igniter was good enough to win the $135,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at six furlongs, a distance that may be shorter than the 3-year-old son of Volatile wants to run.
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Nine colts, a field lacking anything approaching a standout, were entered Saturday in the $1 million Louisiana Derby.
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Fulleffort, who has been knocking at the door in Turfway Park's 3-year-old stakes series, gets a chance to shine in a full field of 12 for next Saturday's Grade 3, $777,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks, a major-points Kentucky Derby prep.
