INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Rigoletta found circumstances to her liking in early stretch of Sunday’s $250,000 Oak Leaf Stakes at Hollywood Park. She was in a duel with the heavily favored Tell a Kelly toward the end of a Grade 1 race over 1 1/16 miles.
To jockey David Flores, the scenario was ideal for Rigoletta, even as the heavily favored Tell a Kelly loomed alongside.
ELMONT, N.Y. – After an 11-year hiatus, trainer James Bond appears headed back to the Breeders’ Cup after Tizway scored an authoritative five-length victory in Sunday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park.
While the victory did not earn Tizway an automatic bid into the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, the performance should be enough to get him selected into the field for $1 million race to be run Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Winter Memories made an electrifying move from the quarter pole to the eighth pole that not only carried her to an eye-catching victory in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont Park but may have made her the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf next month at Churchill Downs.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Air Support overcame a soft Belmont Park turf course, a slow pace, and a jockey’s objection to win Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Pilgrim Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths and earn a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf next month at Churchill Downs.
The Pilgrim was a Win and You’re In race for the Juvenile Turf on Nov. 6.
Soldat, who defeated Air Support by seven lengths in the With Anticipation last month at Saratoga, finished second by a head over Deciphering Dreams.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Favored Southdale rallied along the rail under Jim McAleney to capture the 100th running of the $173,500 Durham Cup Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine.
Southdale ($6.10) raced near the back of a tightly bunched six-horse field early in the nine-furlong route as Barreling Home set slow fractions while being pressed by Eye of the Leopard.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Zenyatta was on a personal public-relations mission on the Hollywood Park backstretch Sunday, a day after she extended her unbeaten streak to 19 races with a thrilling finish in the $250,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Haynesfield came out of his upset victory over Blame in Saturday’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational “in very good order,” according to assistant trainer Toby Sheets, who added that the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs will definitely be considered for the New York-bred colt’s next start.
Spit Curl Diva upset Stolis Winner’s bid to become Quarter Horse racing’s all-time leading earner on Saturday night, when she edged him by a head in a three-way photo in the Grade 1, $100,000 Refrigerator Handicap at Lone Star Park.
It was another nose back in third to King Brimmerton.
Stolis Winner was seeking to break Refrigerator’s earnings mark of $2,126,309, but needed $28,579 to do so. For his runner-up finish Saturday, he earned $17,000.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - On an afternoon highlighted by the 19th consecutive victory by Zenyatta, Richard’s Kid stamped himself as one of her major rivals in the Breeders’ Cup Classic by rallying to take the Grade 1, $250,000 Goodwood Stakes at the Oak Tree meeting at Hollywood Park.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hibaayeb may have earned a trip to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs next month after winning Saturday’s $250,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Hollywood Park.
The Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes was a Win and You’re In race for the BC Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 5, and Claire Sparkes, who accompanied the filly from England to California on behalf of trainer Saeed bin Suroor, said the Churchill Downs race is a possibility.