MIAMI - Stanley Gold achieved arguably the most remarkable training feat in the 40-year history of Calder Race Course when he completed a sweep of the Florida Stallion Stakes for the third straight season, thanks to Fort Loudon’s 2 1/2-length victory over longshot Twin in Saturday’s $300,000 In Reality Stakes.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Leave it to Aidan O’ Brien to rewrite the record book. No filly had even dared try to run in Keeneland’s back-to-back Grade 1 turf races for females until O’Brien tried it on consecutive Saturdays with a 3-year-old named Together, who made the iconic Irish trainer look like the genius he is when she stormed to a 1 1/4-length triumph this latest Saturday in the $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.
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.
