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Trainer David Fawkes said the main goal for Jaipur winner Reef Runner is a start in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland on Oct. 31. Reef Runner gained a fees-paid berth into the race with Saturday's win. Last November at Del Mar, Reef Runner finished fourth in the BC Turf Sprint at Del Mar.
Highly Lethal V was the fastest qualifier from the second of two days of time trials on May 23 for Sunday’s $1 million Ruidoso Futurity at The Downs at Albuquerque. He was even better in Sunday’s final, winning by a length and finishing 350 yards in track-record time of 16.886 seconds.
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Highwaytothemoon went to the lead from the outset and turned away a late bid from favored Military Time to capture Sunday’s $125,000 Queenston Stakes, an early prep for the Aug. 15 King’s Plate at Woodbine.
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Further Ado and Explora might not have been up to winning the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks, but both proved too good for lesser competition in Sunday stakes racing at Churchill Downs.
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Cairo Surprise was all too obvious in the $75,000 John J. Reilly Handicap on Sunday at Monmouth Park, drawing off at will to win the New Jersey-bred stakes by 6 1/4 lengths. The 3-year-old gelding has improved in each start this year for trainer Cal Lynch and might have run another career-best for his first stakes victory.
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The list of horses who have won the Metropolitan Handicap and the Breeders’ Cup Classic is short, but impressive. Ghostzapper, the 2004 BC Classic winner, won the Met Mile the following year in a career in which he won nine of 11 races. Flightline won both races in 2022 as part of an undefeated (6 for 6) career.
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In five starts this year, the filly Slay the Day and Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez have become a productive team.
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Book’em Danno, the New Jersey-bred gelding who won Saturday’s Grade 3 True North Stakes at Saratoga for a second consecutive year, may have a homecoming at Monmouth Park for his next start.
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Don’t categorize the turf star Deterministic, who won his fifth consecutive graded stakes in Saturday’s Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes at 1 3/16 miles.
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What on paper looked to be a showdown between two Chad Brown horses in Sunday’s Grade 3 Poker Stakes at Saratoga turned into a battle between two Bill Mott trainees with Pass the Hat nosing out Capitol Hill at the wire.
