Thats a Heckofacat defeated defending champion Catlaunch in the $75,000 Best of Ohio Endurance, the centerpiece of the five-race Best of Ohio series for Ohio-breds on Saturday at Thistledown.
Thats a Heckofacat responded with a quick move on the second turn while angling out around the pacesetting Catlaunch, then drew off to a 4 1/4-length victory under Scott Spieth, one of the jockey’s three wins in Saturday’s stakes.
It was 3 1/2 lengths back to Bold Captain.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Jockey Eddie Castro was listed in stable condition at a Long Island hospital Saturday afternoon and was able to move all of his extremities following a spill in Saturday’s fourth race at Belmont Park.
Castro was to remain in North Shore University Hospital overnight for further tests, according to New York Racing Association officials. X-rays taken on his neck were negative.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Denomination may have made the last start of her career on Saturday, and if it was, she went out in style, rallying under Joe Bravo for a 2 3/4-length victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Athenia Stakes at Belmont Park.
Unbridled Humor, the even-money favorite, finished second by two lengths over Countess Lemonade. Thai Haku, Nefertiti, Thundering Emilia, and Stormy Dixie completed the order of finish. Aquitaine was scratched.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Seemingly one-paced throughout the majority of the race, Boisterous kicked into another gear in the final sixteenth of a mile and was able to run down Sleepless Knight to win Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Knickerbocker Stakes by a half-length at blustery Belmont Park.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – If Luke of York does this again, he’s going to tie the Breeders’ Cup crowd in knots. In both career starts, the 2-year-old colt has won by a nose, the latest victory coming Saturday in the $125,000 Keeneland 75th Anniversary Stakes.
MIAMI.- It’s a new year but it was the same result in the Grade 3 Spend a Buck as Mad Flatter returned to Calder on Saturday to successfully defend the title he won last fall, doing so once again at the direct expense of the odds-on Mambo Meister.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Hard Not to Like beat the boys convincingly Saturday at Woodbine in the $250,800 Cup and Saucer Stakes, a race in which two of the nine 2-year-olds were pulled over the soft turf course.
Rosie Napravnik won with her first mount since missing three months with a broken wrist and topped off her return to Delaware Park by winning the last of four stakes on Saturday’s program.
Napravnik, last year’s leading rider at Delaware, scored by 2 1/4 lengths aboard heavily favored Cape Girl ($2.80) in the second race, then after one off-the-board finish and a close second, she completed her first day of racing since July 7 when she guided the 2-year-old filly The Funky Express ($5.60) to a 2 1/4-length victory in the $75,000 Small Wonder.
MIAMI – Saturday’s Festival of the Sun program at Calder got itself a pretty good opening act when trainer David Fawkes led over Big Drama, his reigning Eclipse Award winner and defending Breeders’ Cup Sprint champion, for a public workout between the afternoon’s third and fourth races.
Flat Out had his first workout since his victory in the Oct. 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup when posting a bullet drill in 59.80 seconds Saturday morning over a fast track at Churchill Downs.
Greta Kuntzweiler was aboard Flat Out in the work, which was the fastest of 46 at the distance. Flat Out, owned by Preston Stables, figures to be one of the favorites when the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic is run Nov. 5 at Churchill.
