BALTIMORE - With 3-5 favorite Last Gunfighter taking Friday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special, here are the will pays for a $2 ticket in the Pimlico Special-Preakness double.
There was $694,983 wagered in the pool.
Last Gunfighter (No. 7) with:
1. Orb $5.80
2. Goldencents $49.40
3. Titletown Five $344.40
4. Departing $55.20
5. Mylute $75.00
6. Oxbow $100.80
7. Will Take Charge $60.20
8. Govenor Charlie $60.20
9. Itsmyluckyday $45.40
BALTIMORE - Last Gunfighter keeps trumping himself. He won his sixth straight race Friday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special, and after he ran down a loose-on-the-lead horse, his trainer, Chad Brown, called the performance Last Gunfighter’s best to date.
AUBURN, Wash. – There’s one big question to be answered Sunday at Emerald Downs – who will win the Governor’s Handicap – and a second, perhaps no less interesting, issue: Who will set the pace in the 6 1/2-furlong race?
BALTIMORE – When trainer Bob Baffert gave instructions to jockey Joel Rosario prior to Friday’s $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, he told the rider that his 3-year-old filly Fiftyshadesofhay usually likes to be in the first three positions early in the race.
When Baffert saw that Rosario had Fiftyshadesofhay in sixth position around the first turn, Baffert thought, “Oh boy, this is something new!”
BALTIMORE – The remarkable Ben’s Cat, trained and owned by the remarkable King Leatherbury, raced to his 21st victory in 31 lifetime starts on Friday at Pimlico with a late-running score in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint.
Ben’s Cat ($4.20), fifth in the six-horse field during the early portion of the five-furlong grass race, came storming down the center of the track to outrun Spring to the Sky by one length, with Bridgetown another half-length back in third.
With Julian Pimentel aboard, Ben’s Cat completed five furlongs on firm turf in 56.18 seconds.
AUBURN, Wash. – After a hotly contested allowance prep race failed to yield any conclusive results, the top older horses at Emerald Downs will lock horns again Sunday while chasing a bigger purse in the $50,000 Governor’s Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs. First post for the 10-race card is 2 p.m. Pacific.
BALTIMORE - After watching his filly act up in the paddock to the point where she sprung a shoe and after watching her get pinched back at the break, trainer Tony Dutrow wasn’t feeling confident about the chances of I’m Mom’s Favorite in Friday’s $100,000 Miss Preakness Stakes.
“I did not think that we were even going to run good,” Dutrow said.
But I’m Mom’s Favorite overcame all that plus a wild late run from 50-1 shot Flattering Bea to win the Miss Preakness by a nose at Pimlico. It was 1 3/4 lengths back to Lighthouse Bay in third.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Beholder, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2012 who was second in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 3, will return to racing in August – at Del Mar or Saratoga.
Trainer Richard Mandella said Thursday that Beholder is nearing a return from a three-week vacation at a local farm, but that her next start has not been determined.
“I gave her a little break, and we’ll point for the later part of the summer,” Mandella said.
BALTIMORE - Emma-Jayne Wilson picked up points in three of the four legs of the Jockey Challenge at Pimlico Race Course on Friday to win the annual series over Edgar Prado.
There was a special wager attached to the competition, and Wilson paid $25 to win. The exacta of Wilson and Prado, who also picked up points in three of the legs, paid $72.80. The winning numbers were 4 and 6.
Wilson won with 24 points, with Prado earning 19.
