Best Plan Yet ducked his nemesis My Brown Eyed Guy and made the most of the opportunity when rallying from last to a popular one-length victory over Union Cash in Saturday’s $85,000 Foolish Pleasure Stakes for 2-year-olds at Calder.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – First-timer starter My Conquestadory punched her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with a decisive score over males in the Grade 2, $212,800 Summer Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday.
My Conquestadory ($12.90) raced in fourth through the turn in the one-mile turf route, as Tropic of Artie set a lively pace while being pressed by Asserting Bear.
FRANKLIN, Ky. – Boji Moon passed his first major test with flying colors Saturday when stepping outside of Iowa-bred company and trying turf for the first time in the $117,250 Kentucky Downs Juvenile at Kentucky Downs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Well readied off a 3 1/2-month layoff by trainer Steve Asmussen and his staff, Vuitton swooped to victory in Saturday’s $108,100 Open Mind at Churchill Downs, catching Sweet Cassiopeia in the final sixteenth of a mile.
Under patient handling from jockey Ricardo Santana Jr., Vuitton was last of six early, as favored Burban and Ms Ann Destiny set a contested pace of 21.78 and 45.09 seconds in the six-furlong race.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Black Diamond Cat capped off a big day for jockey Jilver Chamafi by slipping up the rail for a 5 3/4-length victory over Grande Shores in Saturday’s $100,000 Montbrook at Gulfstream Park.
Black Diamond Cat gave Chamafi, who entered the day third in the jockeys’ standings, his fourth victory on the card. The win also was the second straight and third in the last four starts for the suddenly improved Black Diamond Cat, who also captured the six-furlong Housebuster here earlier in the session.
On the same program in early June at Delaware Park where Bryan’s Jewel won the John Rooney Memorial Stakes, the 3-year-old filly Galiana won her career debut while running for a $7,500 tag against maiden claimers.
On Saturday, Bryan’s Jewel was pounded to 1-5 favoritism in a field reduced to five fillies and mares by three scratches in the $75,000 Tax Free Distaff, one of six restricted stakes on a special 12-race Owners’ Day program. The New York-bred Galiana was among the four longshots.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Llanarmon ($20.40) graduated in dramatic style Saturday at Woodbine in the Grade 2 Natalma Stakes, in which the favored Ready to Act unseated jockey Rajiv Maragh, who appeared to escape serious injury.
Ready to Act stalked the front-running Unspurned in the one-mile turf route for 2-year-old fillies before making the lead early in the stretch. Ready to Act ducked in at the eighth pole, and a trailing horse came over the top of the fallen Maragh. Ready to Act, a New York shipper trained by Chad Brown, came back fine.
Mom’s Law, beaten a combined 36 1/2 lengths in her last three starts, rallied along the rail under Jeremias Flores to upset Saturday’s $50,000 Jack Betta Be Rite Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares at Finger Lakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Princess of Sylmar, the leader of the 3-year-old filly division, will take on Royal Delta, the leader of the older-female division, in the Grade 1, $400,000 Beldame on Sept. 28, trainer Todd Pletcher confirmed Saturday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Though time is not on his side in terms of making it to the Breeders’ Cup, Point of Entry returned to the work tab Saturday, breezing three furlongs in 37.55 seconds over Belmont Park’s main track.
The work was the first for Point of Entry since he fractured a cannon bone in his left hind leg while winning the Grade 1 Manhattan at Belmont on June 8. The injury required surgery to insert two screws into the leg.
