HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The majority of players who wagered on the Luck Pick Six were likely asking themselves "how" after Hooh Why knocked them out in the opening leg. The 18-1 longshot wore down 3-2 favorite Romacaca to register a 1 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf.
Inheriting both the rail post and the role of favorite after the scratch of stablemate Katy Now, Love and Pride ($3.90) set a slow pace on a merry-go-round racetrack to wire the Affectionately Stakes easily over four pursuers at Aqueduct on Saturday.
Once morning-line choice Katy Now was scratched, Todd Pletcher's barn was represented by only Love and Pride. Her connections, and her many backers, never had an anxious moment.
ARCADIA, Calif. - A younger Compari may not have been as patient as the 6-year-old model in Saturday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita.
Compari was third in a field of five on the hillside portion of the race over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf course, stalking Ain’t No Other and My Summer Slew. Entering the stretch, Compari moved closer to the leaders and rallied between them to take the lead in the final furlong.
The Sensational Star Stakes was the fifth career stakes win for Compari.
Beggarthyneighbor, jumping directly into stakes company following a narrow win over maidens in his third career start, emerged from a three-way fight for the lead in midstretch to capture Saturday’s $100,000 Dancing Count for 3-year-olds at Laurel Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The scratches of expected pacesetters Coup de Coeur and Eden's Moon led trainer Walther Solis to change his strategy for Willa B Awesome in Saturday's $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita.
"I was thinking of laying third or fourth," Solis said. But he said that when he saw the scratches, he told jockey Martin Pedroza, "Let's go to the lead."
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - It isn’t normal operating procedure for Todd Pletcher to run a horse back on just 16 days’ rest. But the multiple Eclipse Award-winning trainer pressed his good luck at this meeting with Soaring Stocks and the move paid off with a half-length victory in the $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions sprint at Gulfstream Park.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Tampa Bay Downs shipper It’s Me Mom ran the champ and five other rivals off their feet in Saturday’s $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Sprint, cruising to a convincing 6 3/4-length, wire-to-wire victory over a field that included recently named Eclipse Award winner Musical Romance.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The champion is still undefeated.
In her return to south Florida, where she launched her career as a 2-year-old, Awesome Feather poked her head in front with three furlongs remaining and then rolled to a 5 3/4-length victory in Saturday’s $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream Park.
Withgreatpleasure ran well enough during her 3-year-old campaign last season to finish second in the Grade 2 Indiana Oaks and third in the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks. She has done her best racing, however, after shuttling down the New Jersey turnpike from her base in New York to Parx Racing in suburban Philadelphia.
The David Nunn-trained Withgreatpleasure, who has two wins and a second in three previous visits to Parx, will make the commute again for Tuesday’s featured ninth race, a third-level optional $40,000 claimer for fillies and mares going a flat mile.
Breaking alertly to take the lead at the outset, Redding Colliery set a brisk pace while pressed by odds-on favorite I Want Revenge, and repelled that rival through the stretch for a two-length score in the $75,000 Evening Attire Stakes, which had been postponed for a week by a snowstorm the previous Saturday.
