INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Largely forgotten after four consecutive losses in stakes, Killer Graces proved why Hollywood Park is her favorite racetrack with a 14-1 upset in Saturday’s $402,000 Hollywood Starlet Stakes.
The Grade 1 Starlet for 2-year-old fillies was Killer Graces’s third stakes win at Hollywood Park this year. She has yet to win a stakes at another venue, having been beaten in races at that level at Del Mar and Fresno earlier this year.
STICKNEY, Ill. – Illinois-bred maiden-special-weight races at Hawthorne this fall offer a $33,000 purse, but Real Power picked a better spot to win the first race of his career, rallying from last of nine to beat his stablemate Yankee Dealer by one length in the $88,125 Jim Edgar Futurity on Saturday at Hawthorne.
Charlie Smith bred String King and owns String King, and String King gave Smith his first win as a trainer with a narrow victory in the $100,000 Turf on the Louisiana Champions Day undercard at Fair Grounds.
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.
