ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Marketing Mix definitely has found a second home at Woodbine.
Trained by Tom Proctor, the 4-year-old Marketing Mix has been based mainly in Kentucky and Illinois but now has made six of her 13 career starts here.
And, after recording her second consecutive Grade 2 turf stakes win here in Sunday’s 1 1/8-mile Dance Smartly, Marketing Mix now has earned more than $1 million with $582,000 of that total coming via her 3-for-3 record over the local turf course.
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - El Aguila Real strengthened his status as the leading older male at Los Alamitos with a convincing win in Sunday’s $200,000 Vessels Maturity.
Earlier this year, El Aguila Real won the Los Alamitos Winter Championship in February. Both races hold automatic berths for the winner to the $750,000 Champion of Champions in December, which could be El Aguila Real’s next start, according to trainer Francisco Vallejo.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Marketway got a perfect trip under Fernando Perez to defeat Ten Thirty in the $50,000 Boulevard Casino Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Hastings on Sunday.
With Lady Henrietta setting pace from the three path, Marketway was biding her time while saving ground along the rail in the six-furlong sprint. Marketway made a strong move approaching the quarter pole, and after taking a half-length lead into the stretch, she increased her margin to 1 3/4 lengths over Ten Thirty, who had a wide trip. Lady Henrietta held on to finish third.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A string of longshot winners Sunday, and a loss by a heavy favorite, has led to a pick-six carryover of $111,858 for Thursday’s eight-race program at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Thursday’s program begins at 1 p.m. The pick-six races are the third through eighth, with the first leg of the pick six due off at approximately 2 p.m. Pacific.
Sunday, three consecutive winners in the fifth through seventh races paid $18, $18.40, and $44.60 before 4-5 Mile High Magic finished second to Don Tito ($14.80) in the eighth race.
Lady Contender has advanced rapidly during the course of the Arapahoe Park meet. She won her debut by eight lengths on June 2, ran second in two subsequent allowances, then became a stakes winner Sunday in the $40,000 George Wafer Memorial.
Lady Contender ($9) was prominent throughout the seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies, tracking Expeditiously through an opening half-mile in 45.64 seconds and then going on to win by 1 1/4 lengths. She covered the distance on a track rated sloppy in 1:24.02.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – My Adonis got the jump on the pack and held off Macho Macho by a half-length Sunday in the $99,000 Long Branch Stakes for 3-year-olds at Monmouth Park.
The Long Branch is the final local prep for the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell on July 29.
Traditionally, the first two Long Branch finishers are extended invitations to the meet’s richest event.
My Adonis is trained by Kelly Breen for George and Lori Hall, the team behind Ruler On Ice, last year’s Belmont Stakes winner.
The chance to develop another Grade 1 winner is tempting.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Marketing Mix beat a decent Grade 2 field while vaulting over the $1 million mark in earnings Sunday at Woodbine in the $358,800 Dance Smartly Stakes.
Moonlit Beauty set an honest pace in the nine-furlong turf route, and a stalking Marketing Mix loomed into serious contention early in the lane. She hit the front along the inside just inside the eighth pole and then got home on top by 1 3/4 lengths over Moment of Majesty. Inglorious rallied for third, and Indian Pond was fourth in the seven-horse race. The final time over firm ground was 1:48.02.
ELMONT, N.Y. – An otherwise mundane Thursday card at Belmont Park got much more interesting when no one hit the pick six Sunday, resulting in a carryover of $251,315 entering Thursday’s program.
Belmont is dark Wednesday, normally a racing day, as it will close out its spring/summer meeting with a four-day race week before heading to Saratoga, which opens July 20.
There was a carryover of $62,392 entering Sunday’s card and an additional $331,450 was wagered into the pool.
ELMONT, N.Y. – She likely won’t obtain the status of her Grade 1 stakes-winning younger half-sister Winter Memories, but for one day La Cloche had the spotlight to herself.
La Cloche won her first stakes Sunday, rallying four wide in the stretch under Junior Alvarado to take the $90,000 Voodoo Dancer Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths. Wallis, a hard-to-handle favorite, finished second by three-quarters of a length over longshot Kiss in the Forest.
Sylvestris, Fontley, All Due Respect, and Check Point completed the order of finish.
