DEL MAR, Calif. – Include Me Out re-established her position as the top-ranked older female on the West Coast when she held off Star Billing to take the Grade 1, $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Fort Larned was training so well leading up to Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap that trainer Ian Wilkes couldn’t wait until Saturday to talk to his jockey.
So in mid-week he called Brian Hernandez, the Kentucky-based jockey who would be riding Fort Larned to share with him the good vibrations.
The conversation filled Hernandez with so much confidence that there were no nerves for the 26-year-old, who would be making his first ever trip to Saratoga.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Even if he wasn’t running the dual Grade 1 winner Ron the Greek in Saturday’s $750,000 Whitney Handicap Invitational, trainer Bill Mott would still feel good about his chances of winning the prestigious Grade 1 race at Saratoga.
That’s because Mott also will saddle Flat Out, last year’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, in the Whitney, and though he’ll likely be a longer price than Ron the Greek, his chances to succeed are equally as good, if not better, than his stablemate.
HRTV, the television network co-owned by Churchill Downs and the Stronach Group, will broadcast all of the Breeders’ Cup races for this year’s event live with the exception of the Classic under a deal reached with Breeders’ Cup covering cable broadcast rights, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Ron the Greek was not the horse who gave trainer Bill Mott his obligatory birthday victory in 2011. One year later, however, Ron the Greek is the gift that keeps on giving for the Hall of Fame trainer.
Mott, who took over Ron the Greek’s training 13 months ago – 12 races into his career – has appeared to figure out whatever makes Ron the Greek tick. On Saturday, the horse will go for his third Grade 1 victory of the year when he faces eight rivals in the $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap at Saratoga.
Winter Memories turned in the best race of her career to capture the Grade 1 Diana here Saturday. It also was a performance that may have helped trainer James Toner shape the course he’ll take with his star filly the remainder of the year.
Winter Memories rallied from off the pace and overcame a little lapse in focus near midstretch to register a 1 1/2-length decision over the European invader Dream Peace in the 1 1/8-mile Diana. Winter Memories received a 100 Beyer Speed Figure, the first time she’s cracked triple digits in her 12-race career.
DEL MAR, Calif. - You might not be able to wipe the smile off trainer Ron Ellis’s face for quite awhile, such was the emotionally uplifting and satisfying victory by Rail Trip on Saturday in the San Diego Handicap.
“He looked great,” on Sunday morning, Ellis said.
Ellis said Rail Trip “really needed to win, he needed to have that swagger.”
“It’s going to be interesting to see how he acts coming out of this,” Ellis said.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The plan that Bill Spawr mapped out with Amazombie late last year resulted in a Breeders’ Cup Sprint win and a subsequent Eclipse Award, so there’s absolutely no reason for Spawr to do anything differently this year. As in 2011, Amazombie, who won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes here at Del Mar on Sunday, will not race again until Santa Anita’s fall meet, and have just one prep for the BC Sprint.
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DEL MAR, Calif. – Rail Trip may only have been the fifth choice in the Grade 2, $200,000 San Diego Handicap, but there could not have been a more popular winner on the card at Del Mar on Saturday, because his victory culminated a tumultuous, 24-month odyssey and left his connections positively beaming.
Class and courage carried Royal Delta to victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap.
Racing over a surface she appeared to be laboring over, Royal Delta, last year's champion 3-year-old filly, held off a late charge from Tiz Miz Sue to win the DelCap by a neck. It was 5 3/4 lengths back to Awesome Maria in third. She was followed by Love and Pride, Darling Reality, Pachattack, and Cash for Clunkers.