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Rodeo Drive Deo got back to her winning ways in Friday night's $113,750 USS Indianapolis Memorial for 3-year-old pacing fillies at Harrah's Hoosier Park, prevailing for David Miller and Ron Burke in 1:51.
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Total commingled betting on the five Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday at Del Mar in Southern California was down 10.8 percent, according to charts of the races. The betting total for the five races was dragged down by a 30 percent drop in betting on the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, which had a six-horse field.
The Liberty Bell Stakes series continued on Friday afternoon at Harrah's Philadelphia, with 3-year-old fillies on both gaits contesting a pair of $30,000 divisions.
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The all-time leading trainer at the Breeders’ Cup, the most important assemblage of Thoroughbred races in North America, is a man from Ireland. Gstaad, an excellent horse getting a fantastic ride from Christophe Soumillon, overcame a bad post position, a hesitant start, a wide trip and 13 rivals to win the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on Friday at Del Mar. That made 21 Breeders’ Cup winners for Aidan O’Brien, one more than the late Wayne Lukas.
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In a performance that looked very similar to his previous two Grade 1 stakes victories, Ted Noffey stalked the pacesetting Brant, took over from that one straightening away in the stretch and then, after idling some, kept longshot Mr. A. P. at bay to win Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by one length at Del Mar.
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Balantina was strides from an upset win in Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar when full-throated cheers erupted from a small group assembled in the front row of a grandstand viewing area. The moment Balantina reached the wire, winning trainer Donnacha O’Brien hugged his girlfriend, Rachael Hickey, and then turned to his left and embraced his father, a fella named Aidan O’Brien.
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When the month began, Super Corredora was still a maiden. When it ended, the daughter of Gun Runner was the favorite to claim the Eclipse Award in her division after making every pole a winning one en route to a three-quarter-length victory in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar.
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Crafty Collector, a 3-year-old filly trained by Gerald Bennett, pulled off a 61-1 stunner in the $75,000 Cellars Shiraz Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Friday. Jockey Edwin Gonzalez found the perfect ground-saving trip on the longest shot in the race to run down Mischief in Motion and win by a length.
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Trainer George Weaver has done great work getting 2-year-olds to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. Six of the nine horses he’d run in the Breeders’ Cup contested the Juvenile Turf Sprint. He ran three in 2023 and on Friday added two more runners to his ledger. And this time he won.
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Before the Breeders’ Cup fireworks were scheduled to begin Friday at Del Mar, favorites swept both 2-year-old Cal-bred stakes on the undercard.
