Higher Logic overcame an early duel to win the $88,000 Indiana Stallion Stakes at Hoosier Park on Friday evening.
Jockey Irwin Rosendo hustled Higher Logic away from the gate and she set a pressured pace to upper stretch. Rosendo asked the 2-year-old Indiana-sired filly trained by Antonio Duran for her best and she responded, drawing off to a 5 1/2-length win over a track labeled as muddy.
Burst of Life improved her Remington Park record to 7 for 9 on Friday night, when she won a three-way photo over All About Allie and 1-2 favorite Moon Buzz in the $50,000 Flashy Lady. Burst of Life’s official margin of victory was a neck over About Allie, while it was another head back in third to Moon Buzz.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Mark Casse has been touting for months the potential of the 2-year-old crop he has under his training care this year. At least in this timely instance, Casse was proven absolutely right on opening day of the Keeneland fall meet Friday when Spring In the Air, with Patrick Husbands riding for Casse and owner John Oxley, rolled home a winner in the 61st running of the Grade 1, $400,000 Darley Alcibiades Stakes.
Madresita might have been second in her trial for the $100,000 Black Gold Futurity, but as the lone stakes winner in the field she will start as a top contender Sunday in the 350-yard race being run at Will Rogers Downs near Tulsa, Okla.
Someplace Else has been living someplace else for the last week and a half. The Oklahoma-based filly has been calling Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., home since Sept. 27, when she shipped into town three days in advance of the $60,000 Chaves County Stakes.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Sum of the Parts broke like a shot and proceeded to lead every inch of the six-furlong distance of the Grade 3 Phoenix Stakes on the opening-day card on a warm Friday at Keeneland.
Giving Julien Leparoux his third victory of the day, Sum of the Parts, a 3-year-old facing older rivals, returned $11.80 as third choice in a field of 10 in the 160th running of the $175,000 Phoenix. He finished in 1:09.88 over the Polytrack surface.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Larry Rivelli had to skip opening day at Hawthorne to run a horse instead on a warm sunny day at Keeneland. Tough break, dude.
“We picked our spot with this one,” a smiling Rivelli said after getting his photograph taken in the Keeneland winner’s circle after sending out favored Breaking Ball to win the fourth race on the Friday opener of the 17-day fall meet.
Alpha and Questing, both beaten at Parx in $1 million races in their last starts, returned to the work tab Friday morning, each breezing four furlongs over the synthetic surface at the Greentree training center in Saratoga.
Alpha, the Travers co-winner who finished sixth in the Pennsylvania Derby, went four furlongs in 48.40 seconds, according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. Alpha is pointing to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Graham Motion will be a player in all three turf stakes scheduled to be run on Monday’s Columbus Day card at Belmont Park.
In the Grade 3, $150,000 Pilgrim Stakes, for 2-year-old males, Motion will send out the Irish-bred Cerro. In the Grade 3, $150,000 Miss Grillo, for 2-year-old fillies, Motion sends out Three Hearts. Finally, in the $150,000 Pebbles Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, Motion has Ski Holiday.
