Golden Brown ($33.20) has first stakes win in Kent

STANTON, Del. – Trainer Patrick McBurney sent two horses to Delaware Park on Saturday. Owesaycanyousee won race 6, an optional claimer, and paid $47.20. Golden Brown won the Grade 3, $200,000 Kent and returned $33.20.

Golden Brown was the second-longest shot on the board in the eight-horse Kent, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for 3-year-olds. He was forwardly placed throughout, was taken to the outside for the stretch run and pulled away to win by 1 3/4 lengths under rider Jairo Rendon.

“The race came up tough,” McBurney said. “We thought we’d be in front but the seven outsprinted us, so Jairo took a hold.”

Runner-up Hot Springs also raced near the front the entire race. He saved ground to the stretch, was carried inward by front-running Archaggelos, which caused 6-5 favorite Untamed Domain to check sharply. Hot Springs drifted out after that incident and bested third-place Carrick for second by a length.

Archaggelos dead-heated for fourth with Way Early – a half-length behind 5-2 Carrick – but the stewards lit the inquiry sign and Jose Ortiz, the rider of Untamed Domain, lodged an objection against rider Mario Pino and Archaggelos. After a lengthy review, they disqualified Archaggelos and placed him sixth, elevating Untamed Domain to fifth.

Untamed Domain had a very rough trip. He brushed with a horse to his outside leaving the gate and dropped back to last. Jose Ortiz moved him closer along the inside on the backstretch and then tried to come up the rail in upper stretch. Ortiz was forced to check hard when Hot Springs was herded inward, closing the hole.

Untamed Domain galloped out in front of the field after the race.

Golden Brown was timed in 1:48.06 over very firm turf.

The Kent was the first stakes win for Golden Brown, and the second graded stakes win for McBurney, who sent out Just Call Kenny to win the Grade 3 Philip Iselin at his summer base of Monmouth Park last summer.

Golden Brown, a New Jersey-bred, ran a very good race in his start prior to the Kent, the statebred Dan Horn, a 1 1/16-mile turf race at Monmouth. The Dan Horn was Golden Brown’s turf and two-turn debut and he finished second by a half-length to graded winner and last year’s New Jersey-bred turf champion Irish Strait.

“We thought if he could run that race back, we might get a piece of this,” McBurney said.

The Dan Horn was Golden Brown’s first stakes start. He now has a 7-3-3-0 record. His other two wins came in an open maiden race at Parx in February and in a New Jersey-bred allowance sprint in June.