Earlier in their careers, the 4-year-old fillies Class E Holiday and Ann’s Smart Dancer were good enough to run in stakes. But when they line up for Monday’s $48,000 sprint feature at Parx Racing, both Class E Holiday and Ann’s Smart Dancer will have a claiming tag on their heads.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Grandeur won his United States debut in $150,000 Twilight Derby at Santa Anita, the last race on the Breeders' Cup Friday program. It may not be his final start in California this month.
Trainer Jeremy Noseda said in the winner’s circle that Grandeur will be pointed for the $250,000 Hollywood Derby over 1 1/4 miles on turf at Betfair Hollywood Park on Nov. 25.
“I thought he would be suited by American racing, and he proved that today,” said Noseda, who trained in California in 1996-1997.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Royal Delta rewarded one lucky pick-six bettor with a $773,865 payday by virtue of her two-length victory over My Miss Aurelia in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic.
Royal Delta was one of only two horses covered in the Breeders’ Cup pick six along with Grace Hall, who finished fourth in the Ladies’ Classic. A victory by any of the other six fillies and mares in the race would have created a huge carryover going into the second day of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The best horse won the best race on Breeders’ Cup Friday at Santa Anita, and she did it surprising fashion.
Royal Delta ($5.40) became the second filly or mare to win the Ladies’ Classic in consecutive years with a heads-up ride from Mike Smith, whose 16th Breeders’ Cup win makes him the all-time Breeders’ Cup leader.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Zagora ended her career at the top of the American female turf division.
Making her final start before she is scheduled to be sold Monday evening at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in Kentucky, Zagora won Friday’s $1,818,000 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita, the richest and most prestigious victory of her career.
With the win, she essentially clinched the Eclipse Award as the nation’s champion turf female of 2012.
ARCADIA, Calif. - As usual, Richard Mandella made the right call.
Faced with the options of running the speedy Beholder in the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint or the $2 million Juvenile Fillies, Mandella went for the Juvenile Fillies.
He and owner B. Wayne Hughes were rewarded for that decision when Beholder, ridden by Garrett Gomez, scored a one-length front-running victory over Executiveprivilege in the Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita.[bc_video_id:267185:]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Those looking for a reason to back Fort Larned in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic may have received favorable signal in Friday's Grade 3, $110,400 Ack Ack Handicap at Churchill Downs when Fort Larned's workmate, Neck 'n Neck, scored a comfortable 2 1/4-length victory.The win came for the same trainer/jockey team of Fort Larned: Ian Wilkes and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.
Of the duo only Hernandez was on hand at Churchill Friday, placing Neck 'n Neck in sixth early in the field of seven, and urging him past his six rivals in the lane.
ARCADIA, Ca. – Flotilla was bred in France, trains in France, and before this week, had only raced in France. It has been a wet year in France: All four of Flotilla’s starts there came on courses rated soft or something close to it. Friday, at fast-playing, very firm Santa Anita, the French filly Flotilla sparkled, closing fiercely under Christophe Lemaire to gun down Watsdachances in the final furlong and win the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf by 1 1/4 lengths.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Calidoscopio became the oldest winner in the history of the Breeders’ Cup while briefly turning Santa Anita racetrack into a soccer pitch in South America after cruising to an easy 4 1/2-length victory over fellow longshot Grassy in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Marathon.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The 19th will count as much as the first 18 did – even if it only took a maiden to defeat four other 2-year-olds Friday at Santa Anita in the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint, the opener of the two-day, 15-race sequence.
