Yummy With Butter reeled in the pacesetting Sayif to win the Grade 3, $200,000 Oceanport on the turf, the first of two graded stakes on the Haskell Day undercard at Monmouth Park.
It was a longshot player's delight as Yummy With Butter, 9-1, prevailed over Sayif at 10-1.
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It was a rematch of the Battlefield Stakes on July 9, where Sayif opened up a huge lead that stood up while Yummy With Butter closed to finish one length behind.
Romacaca extended her winning streak to five with a 1 1/4-length win over Ravi’s Song in the Grade 3, $207,500 Matchmaker Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf on the Haskell undercard at Monmouth Park.
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In addition to the purse money, the first three winners receive a stallion season from Taylor Made Stallions Inc.
SHAKOPEE, MN – On a hot, humid day set aside by Canterbury Park to celebrate the strength of breast cancer survivors, a mare with a survival story of her own, A She’s Adorable, captured the signature stakes race of the meet, the $75,000 Lady Canterbury Stakes.
Jockey James Graham kept A She’s Adorable off honest early fractions set by longshot Rare Sunset in the one-mile turf race.
Embellished had a perfect stalking trip to win the $50,000 Northlands Park Oaks by 2 1/2 lengths over Maegans Princesses at Northlands Park on Sunday.
With Heribert Martinez taking a firm hold of the Kentucky-bred filly, Embellished sat just off Maegans Princesses, who set moderate fractions of 24.40 and 48 seconds in the one-mile feature. Embellished moved up to engage Meagans Princess going into the stretch turn and then drew off to post a convincing victory. She paid $6.50 as the second choice behind Castinettes Dancer, who made a late move to finish a non-threatening third.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Todd Pletcher enjoyed a spectacular weekend at Saratoga, winning seven of nine races in which he competed, including two graded stakes.
Pletcher, who has won the Saratoga training title seven times, has won at least one race each of the nine days of the meet and has taken control of trainer standings with 14 wins from 41 starters. Chad Brown is second in the standings with five wins.
Pletcher owns the record for most wins at a Saratoga meet with 36, which he recorded last year.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - After watching a highly regarded 2-year-old flop in his debut on Saturday at Del Mar, then having their private plane re-routed to an inconvenient airport located miles from here early Sunday morning, the connections of Coil, trainer Bob Baffert said, thought they were enduring, as he put it, “the trip from hell.”
“We didn’t get to our hotel until 5 a.m.,” he said. “And they were out of rooms, so we had to double up on some.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - When trainer Marty Wolfson looked at the complexion of the two races he had entered Ask the Moon in on Sunday, he thought the mare fit better in the Grade 1, $250,000 Ruffian Invitational at Saratoga than the listed $100,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park.
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Not only did Wolfson feel his chances were better in the Ruffian, but he also felt he knew exactly how the 6-year-old mare could win the race.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Marketing Mix ($11.50) notched her first stakes impressively at Woodbine on Sunday in the $250,800 Wonder Where, the third leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, a series for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.
Marketing Mix, trained by Tom Proctor for Glen Hill Farm, ran 1 1/4 miles over firm turf in 2:01.21 while scoring by four and three-quarter lengths over favored Spooky Kitten. Pacemaker Hoi An faded to third in the 10-horse field.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Sidney’s Candy became racing’s newest millionaire and gave trainer Todd Pletcher his second Grade 2 victory of the weekend when registering a 1 1/4-length victory over Moryba and five other outclassed rivals in Sunday’s $150,000 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga. Pletcher had won the Grade 2 Jim Dandy the previous afternoon with Stay Thirsty.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The card for Friday, Aug. 5, at Hastings was canceled when not enough horses were entered Sunday morning. Officials at Hastings are blaming the cancellation because of a “cold-like” virus that has spread through the backstretch.
Entries for Saturday and Sunday will be taken on Wednesday. No decision has been made about making up the lost day.
