INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Dubawi Heights extended her winning streak to four races and gave 28-year-old trainer Simon Callaghan his first Grade 1 win in Monday’s $250,000 Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Dubawi Heights extended her winning streak to four races and gave 28-year-old trainer Simon Callaghan his first Grade 1 win in Monday’s $250,000 Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park.
ALBANY, Calif. - Uh Oh Bango ($11.40) handed Bold Chieftain his third straight photo loss in the Grade 3, $100,000 Berkeley Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Monday.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Amazombie finished first in Monday’s $100,000 Los Angeles Handicap at Hollywood Park but was disqualified and placed third, giving the victory to second-place finisher Camp Victory, with M One Rifle promoted from third to second.
Kingofthebluegrass, who was racing for a $16,000 claiming tag a little more than a month ago, won for the second time within a week and for the first time in a stakes when he upset Monday’s $75,000 Memorial Day Handicap at Mountaineer Racetrack.
A 4-year-old colt who has been training at Keeneland with trainer Tevis McCauley, Kingofthebluegrass ($15.80) shipped to Mountaineer to win a second-level allowance going a mile and 70 yards on dirt on May 24, then came right back to make just his second lifetime start on turf.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Jockey Lindey Wade, who was thrown hard Monday at Lone Star Park when his mount, Icelain Diva, broke down in the $75,000 Cinemine, escaped serious injury and is scheduled to resume riding on Friday, which is the next card of races at Lone Star.
Wade, 20, took off the remainder of his mounts following the incident, which took place in the stretch run of the seventh race. Wade sat up following the spill, and after a few minutes walked into the attending ambulance. He was then examined by first-aid personnel in the grandstand at Lone Star.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Awesome Gem still has got it at 8. He rallied for a one-length win in the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap on Monday, then withstood a claim of foul to nail down the fourth graded stakes win of a career that began in 2006.
“What a warrior,” said Craig Dollase, who trains Awesome Gem for West Point Thoroughbreds.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Sassy Image once again flaunted her class and her fondness for the main track at Churchill Downs when she wore down front-running Beat the Blues to post a neck victory Monday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Winning Colors Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Perseverance and loyalty were rewarded in a big way Monday at Belmont Park as the 6-year-old Tizway rolled to a 2 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park.
It was the first Grade 1 victory for Tizway, who had run in five previous Grade 1 races starting with the 2009 Whitney - in which he was fourth - and including last year's Met Mile, in which he was third to Quality Road.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Thirtyfirststreet won his turf debut and going around two turns for the first time in his career on Monday, when he outgamed Close Ally approaching the wire in the $200,000 Lone Star Derby.
The race was one of six stakes worth a collective $1 million on Lone Star Park’s annual Million Day. The card is the richest program of Thoroughbred racing in Texas.