Sat, 09/11/2010 - 19:30

Kuntzweiler guides Rezif to Kentucky Cup Turf upset

FRANKLIN, Ky. - Rezif launched a devastating run approaching the eighth pole and went on to a convincing 6 1/4-length upset as an 18-1 outsider in the 14th running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Kentucky Cup Turf on Saturday, opening day of the four-day Kentucky Downs meet.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 19:09

Secret Gypsy gets through for Endine win

Secret Gypsy escaped a tight spot and survived a claim of foul to earn a third straight stakes win on Saturday in the Grade 3, $150,700 Endine Stakes for fillies and mares at Delaware Park.

It was another amazing chapter for the 5-year-old who has returned from multiple surgeries in the best form of her career.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 18:30

Al Khali gets up despite trouble in Bowling Green

ELMONT, N.Y. - Alan Garcia literally and figuratively fell into a Grade 2 stakes winner Saturday at Belmont Park.

One race after he was dumped following a winning ride in an allowance race, Garcia, overcoming what he admittedly said was not one of his better rides, got Al Khali switched to the outside in the final furlong and the colt came with a flying finish to win the $150,000 Bowling Green Handicap by a neck over 3-5 favorite Winchester, who got second by a head over Simmard.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 18:07

Eye of Taurus starts fall meet with Revidere victory

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Eye of Taurus reeled in the front-running Giant Mover by one length on Saturday to capture the $76,650 Revidere Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf at Monmouth Park.

The Revidere was the main event on the first card of Monmouth's fall meet. The track is running on a Saturday-and-Sunday schedule through Nov. 21.

Eye of Taurus got her first win of the season in five starts, with the last four coming at Monmouth. A 4-year-old trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Eye of Taurus had been close in every race without being able to break through until the Revidere.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 17:39

Dancing Raven wins La Prevoyante

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Chantal Sutherland hopes to make it onto the hit television show "Dancing With the Stars" some day, but for now, she'll have to settle for riding Dancing Raven, whom she guided to victory in Saturday's $126,200 La Prevoyante Stakes at Woodbine.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 17:34

The Futurity winner? Catalano, of course

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Major Gain wasn’t quite ready to win a maiden race when he made his career debut a month ago, but he was ready to win the Arlington-Washington Futurity on Saturday at Arlington Park. No wonder. Wayne Catalano trains him.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 17:16

Fascinatin’ Rhythm best in Geisha

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Fascinatin' Rhythm, with Forest Boyce up, wins the Geisha Stakes.

Fascinatin’ Rhythm made it two in a row at Laurel Park on Saturday, putting away four rivals to win the $50,000 Geisha Stakes by a length.

Winner of the six-furlong Jameela on the Laurel turf last month to end a 13-race losing streak, Fascinatin’ Rhythm stretched out to a mile on dirt in the Geisha. Ridden by Forest Boyce, she pressed the pacesetting Ysabel T. through a quarter-mile in 24.17 seconds, then took over along the backstretch, leading the field through a half-mile in 47.26 seconds, three-quarters in 1:11.83.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 17:02

Jemilyn romps in Distaff Stakes on Pa.-bred day

Jemilyn romped to a four-length win Saturday in the $150,000 PHBA Distaff Stakes for fillies and mares at Parx Racing. The PHBA Distaff was the featured event on a card devoted exclusively to Pennsylvania-breds.

Jemilyn missed by only one length last year when this stakes was run at seven furlongs. She had no problems with the distance change to 1 1/16 miles.

After running in a pair of open stakes, Jemilyn clearly the relished the return to statebred company.

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 15:31

Broad Rule has winning in the family

The mare Illeria, a stakes winner during her racing career, produced her first foal way back in 1995. Serenity Jane, the name given that youngster, made three starts, and won none of them. But Illeria’s 1996 model, eventually named Magic Broad, was much more racehorse: Her five career wins included a victory in the Grade 3 Selima Stakes. In 1997, Illeria gave birth to a foal who would be named Include, and for a while in 2001, Include was the best thing out there, scoring sharp back-to-back-to-back victories in the New Orleans Handicap, the Pimlico Special, and the Massachusetts Handicap.