Perhaps a return to suburban Philadelphia was all A.U. Miner needed to regain his good form.
Winless in three starts since upsetting last year’s 1 1/2-mile Greenwood Cup at 14-1, A.U. Miner roared from last to first to capture the $200,000 Greenwood Cup at Parx Racing for the second time.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The transformation of First Dude from consistent also-ran to major stakes winner is complete.
On Saturday, First Dude won his first Grade 1 stakes, and third consecutive race, in the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, earning a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs in November. Last year, First Dude finished second or third in six consecutive graded stakes for 3-year-olds and was eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
MIAMI - A year ago, Bisnath Parboo was a relatively unknown trainer struggling to make it on the New York circuit with fewer than career 15 winners on his résumé. Now, Parboo could be headed to the Breeders' Cup after his Giant Ryan rallied to a neck victory over Irrefutable in the $350,000 Smile Sprint Handicap, a Breeders' Cup Challenge event for the BC Sprint.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Courageous Cat’s gritty win in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Shoemaker Mile at Hollywood Park left winning jockey Patrick Valenzuela in a forecasting mood after the race.
“This horse is so much better than when I rode him in the Shadwell Mile,” Valenzuela said, referring to a third-place finish in the Grade 1 race at Keeneland last fall. “I can almost guarantee he’ll win the Breeders’ Cup Mile, even if they bring that filly over.”
OCEANPORT, N.J. – The Grade 1, $750,000 United Nations Stakes was a victory for the home team as Teaks North came roaring home Saturday to win the premier turf event of the season at Monmouth Park.
Teaks North is now a perfect 4 for 4 over the course at the track where he summers. This victory opened a range of vistas.
Earnestly won the first Grade 1 race of his career in a 12-1 upset in Sunday’s $3.2 million Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan, earning an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs in November.
A 6-year-old horse, Earnestly was always near the front and won by 1 1/2 lengths over Buena Vista, the 5-year-old mare who is a five-time Grade 1 winner and was Japan’s Horse of the Year in 2009 and 2010.
Misty for Me is proving to be unbeatable in Group 1 races at the Curragh in Ireland.
Saturday, the 3-year-old filly won her third race at that level at the famous racecourse in the Pretty Polly Stakes, leading throughout 1 1/4 miles for fillies and mares and repelling a threat from Midday, the 1-3 favorite, in early stretch.
The announcement last week that a six-furlong sprint for 2-year-olds will become the 15th Breeders’ Cup race starting this fall has prompted some hand-wringing over the expansion of the Cup lineup in general and an emphasis on speed and precocity in particular. While it’s reasonable to raise such concerns, the new Juvenile Sprint seems on balance like a healthy addition to the program, so long as people keep it in proper perspective.