INGLEWOOD, Calif. - In an otherwise messy race, Malibu Pier had a perfect trip under Brice Blanc and won Sunday’s $100,000 Beverly Hills Handicap at Hollywood Park.
Malibu Pier ($4.80) stalked pacesetter Restless Soul for the first mile of the race, run over 1 1/4 miles on turf. She took the lead in the stretch and won by 1 3/4 lengths over Cozi Rosie, who stumbled badly in the first furlong.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Woodbine Oaks winner Inglorious overhauled 61-1 outsider Hippolytus at the sixteenth pole and drew clear to take the 152nd running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate Sunday at Woodbine under a flawless ride from Luis Contreras.
Inglorious ($11) became the 34th filly to win the storied race, and just the fifth to complete the Oaks/Plate double. It was the second Plate victory for trainer Josie Carroll, who won with Edenwold in 2006.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The winner of a starter allowance race at Hollywood Park on June 10 has been disqualified, and the $35,800 purse ordered redistributed, after stewards Scott Chaney, Kim Sawyer, and Tom Ward ruled Sunday that race winner Doc Can Dance was ineligible for the conditions of the race.
In their one-page ruling, the stewards said the purse will be redistributed to the second- through sixth-place finishers – Preferred Behavior, Uncle Greg, Lewdawg N Paradise, Starcatter, and Warren’s Warehouse.
ELMONT, N.Y. – A return to a New York-bred stakes certainly perked up Preachintothedevil. He drew off to a 4 1/4-length win Sunday at Belmont Park in the $100,000 Mike Lee for 3-year-olds bred in the state.
Preachintothedevil ($10.40) is now 3 for 4 against fellow New Yorkers. His last four races were all against open company as he hit the road to the Triple Crown for trainer Gary Contessa.
Feel That Fire took charge right from the break, leading all the way Sunday to win the $76,350 Blue Sparkler Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.
A 4-year-old homebred for the Red Oak Farm, Feel That Fire earned her first stakes win, improving to 3 for 7 overall.
Jose Valdivia Jr. was aboard as Feel That Fire left the gate running. Leading by open lengths down the backstretch and around the turn, Feel That Fire had company in deep stretch as D’wild Ride made a determined late run.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Different stakes, same result as Ava K. captured the $98,000 Bouwerie for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Belmont Park.
On June 3, Ava K. beat Miss Valentine, with Hot Danger third, in Belmont’s Wandering Cloud Stakes. That trio returned for the Bouwerie, and they finished in the exact same order.
With the victory, Ava K. improved to 4 for 4 in sprints, emerging as a leader in her statebred division.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Musketier, the senior member of the field at age 9, successfully defended his title for trainer Roger Attfield in Sunday’s
Singspiel as he rallied to post a neck victory in the Grade 3, $151,200 supporting feature on the Queen’s Plate card at Woodbine.
Rahy’s Attorney, the 2-1 choice in the field of seven for the 1 1/2-mile turf race, lead through slow fractions over a course rated firm, but was joined by Simmard with about a half-mile to run.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Signature Red captured the Grade 2, $201,200 Highlander Stakes for the second year in a row on the Queen’s Plate undercard at Woodbine on Sunday.
After a stalking trip under Luis Contreras, Signature Red held off favored Fiddlers Patriot in the final strides to win the six-furlong turf dash by a nose, in a time of 1:09. Heros Reward held on for third, after racing in tight quarters in the stretch under Sheldon Russell.
PLEASANTON, Calif. – Victoryasecret ($6.20), a hard-luck loser in the 2010 running, scored a game victory, winning a three-way photo in the Alameda County Fillies & Mares Stakes on Saturday at the Alameda County Fair.
Victoryasecret set the pace in the 2010 edition, when she was passed in the final 50 yards, losing to Miss Pleasant.
ALTOONA, Iowa – Conducted over a fast surface, despite earlier rain and unseasonably cool temperatures in the high 60s, the concluding night of the Prairie Meadows Iowa Festival of Racing brought forth competitive renewals of the Grade 3, $200,000 Iowa Oaks and Grade 3, $250,000 Iowa Derby.
