NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Catlaunch won his 34th career race when he led every step of the way to post a four-length win in the $75,000 Endurance. The 1 1/4-mile Endurance was one of five Ohio-bred stakes on the Best of Ohio card.
Raise the Reward finished second behind Catlaunch and Thats a Heckofacat was third. Catlaunch was timed in 2:04.36 over a good track and returned a $6.80 mutuel. Catlaunch is the winningest active Thoroughbred in the United States
ELMONT, N.Y. - Unhurried after breaking a step slowly from her inside post, Life At Ten recovered to gain a stalking position down the backstretch and pulled away from favored Unrivaled Belle through the stretch to win the Grade 1, $350,000 Beldame under John Velazquez on Saturday at Belmont Park.
ELMONT, N.Y. - After a couple of close calls and tough trips in her first four North American starts, the Great Britain-bred Ave broke through Saturday, splitting horses in deep stretch and earning a hard-fought head victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park.
Summer Laugh, stretching out around two turns after a convincing win sprinting in her career debut nearly two months ago at Saratoga, held off Days Like This by a head to win Saturday’s $75,000 Blue Hen Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Delaware Park.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Terry Jordan won the $125,800 Victorian Queen Stakes for the second year in a row Saturday at Woodbine.
As if to prove his easy victory in last month’s Aspirant was no fluke, Bug Juice delivered an even more impressive performance upon his second visit to Finger Lakes for Saturday’s richest race of the season, the $282,925 New York Breeders’ Futurity.
A seven-length winner in the six-furlong Aspirant on Labor Day, Bug Juice ($3.90) romped to a 10-length win in the six-furlong Futurity, covering the distance in 1:10.24, the second fastest running in the 48-year history of the stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. - With several horses aimed at the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Stable wanted to run Girolamo in the Grade 1 Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont Park to see if they had a contender for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
OPELOUSAS, La. – Evangeline Downs will begin its 2010 Quarter Horse season on Tuesday with a nine-race program that gets under way at 12:40 p.m. Central.
The 46-day stand runs through Dec. 18 and will operate on a mostly Wednesday-through-Sunday schedule with Tuesdays added the first two and last two weeks of the season. There will be no racing on Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, or Saturday, Dec. 11.
Traditionally a night track, Evangeline will conduct racing during daylight hours this fall with the exception of a twilight card on Nov. 13 that begins at 5:40 p.m. local time.
Johnie Bye Night owns a 5-for-12 lifetime record racing at Finger Lakes, including three consecutive runnings of the George Barker Memorial Stakes. Despite his past accomplishments and the fact the 8-year-old gelding is dropping to a career-low class level, Johnie Bye Night is not even the strongest part of trainer Charlton Baker’s coupled entry, let alone the favorite, in Tuesday’s featured eighth race at Finger Lakes.
Trainer Todd Fincher won four of the seven Thoroughbred stakes on last fall’s $2 million New Mexico Cup program at Zia Park and will be prepping for another run at the series on Monday.
Fincher will send out Chuchuluco in the featured seventh race, a $35,000 optional claiming allowance sprint for 3-year-olds and up bred in New Mexico. The 5 1/2-furlong race will be the horse’s final prep for the $140,000 New Mexico Cup for 3-year-olds at Zia on Oct. 31.