Star Guitar, one of the best Louisiana-breds ever, won the Louisiana Champions Day Classic for the third year in a row on Saturday at Fair Grounds, capturing the statebred-restricted $150,000 stakes by 1 1/4 lengths over Populist Politics.
Got an Itch showed her versatility of style and footing as she captured the $35,000 City of Phoenix at Turf Paradise on Saturday.
Owned by Just for Fun Farms LLC and trained by Molly Pearson, Got an Itch, a 4-year-old daughter of Rocky Bar, collected her second straight win and third victory in her last four starts. She was coming off a wire-to-wire win on turf here Nov. 18.
Russian Greek made a bold rally along the rail through the lane to catch Marshal Marini in the final strides to win the $75,260 Gold Rush Stakes by a neck at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.
Russian Greek ($16.80), last down the backstretch when favored Lucky Culprit was pulled up after being bumped hard by Cahill Chrome on the first turn, was five lengths behind Marshal Marini, who opened up on the field in the stretch.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - There would be no Breeders’ Cup bounce for Pomeroys Pistol, who rallied to a two-length decision over longshot Pica Slew in Saturday’s $100,000 Sugar Swirl at Gulfstream Park. The outing was the first for Pomeroys Pistol since she finished fourth five weeks earlier in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.
OLDSMAR, Fla. – Quick Flip, prominent from the outset under Pedro Cotto Jr., rallied outside pacesetter Red Hot Doll in midstretch to gain the lead and went on to post 1 1/2-length victory in the $75,000 Sandpiper Stakes, the co-feature of a 10-race program at Tampa Bay Downs that featured exclusively 2-year-olds.
Baltimore Belle proved just as proficient on the main track as she was in her previous start on turf to capture her second straight stakes and third added-money event of the season in Saturday’s $75,000 Geisha for Maryland-bred fillies and mares at Laurel Park.
Penn National-based Pollard’s Boy, whose previous two victories came against open company, relished the class drop to score a daylight victory in Saturday’s $74,750 Pennsylvania Nursery for statebred 2-year-old colts and geldings at Parx Racing.
Three weeks after breaking one modern-day United States record, the remarkable 5-year-old gelding Rapid Redux is targeting another in Tuesday’s sixth race at Laurel Park.
As a follow-up to his 20th consecutive win last month at Mountaineer Racetrack, Rapid Redux will attempt to tie the modern-day U.S. record for victories in a calendar year, currently shared by Triple Crown winner Citation (1948) and Hall of Famer Roseben (1905) at 19.
Tap for Luck and Heather, a pair of 3-year-old fillies with two stakes placings apiece on their r é sum é s, meet for the first time in Monday’s featured eighth race at Parx, a second-level optional $25,000 claimer for fillies and mares going six furlongs.
The Todd Pletcher-trained Tap for Luck began her career in August 2010 by winning her maiden at Saratoga with a 90 Beyer Speed Figure. Two starts later, she was runner-up in the Grade 3 Tempted at Aqueduct and followed up by finishing a distant third of five in the Grade 2 Demoiselle.
