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.
STICKNEY, Ill. – Redding Colliery had every right to lose the Hawthorne Gold Cup after setting a wickedly fast pace, but he dug in and held off Giant Oak and A. U. Miner to win the Grade 2, $250,000 Gold Cup by three-quarters of a length.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - What a time to break your maiden.
Jaycito, winless in his first two starts, including a second-place finish in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity last month, ran down favored J P's Gusto to win Saturday's $250,000 Norfolk Stakes at the Oak Tree at Hollywood Park meeting.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Zenyatta stretched her unbeaten streak to 19 in Saturday’s $250,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes at Hollywood Park.
Fortunately for the well-being of her backers, not all of her wins have been as dramatic as Saturday’s race.
Havre de Grace finally won a photo finish over summer nemesis Blind Luck in Saturday's Grade 2, $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Parx Racing, and in the process might have put herself in the running for another showdown with the nation's top 3-year-old filly in next month's Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic.
ANDERSON, Ind. – Lookin At Lucky might have given his connections and backers a little scare, but the colt proved his class Saturday when he rallied from well back to capture the 16th running of the Grade 2, $510,900 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park.
A year ago, trainer Damon Dilodovico shelled out $40,000 to claim Regal Solo specifically to run him a month later in the Maryland Million Classic. Coming from far back, Regal Solo had to settle for third in the 2009 running, but he succeeded with a last-to-first move on Saturday to win the biggest event on the 25th annual Jim McKay Maryland Million card for the offspring of Maryland stallions at Laurel Park.
Jockey Sheldon Russell completed a stakes triple when he guided Regal Solo ($13.40) to a 1 1/4-length victory over Not Aboard in the $150,000 Classic.
ANDERSON, Ind. – Always a Princess passed her two-turn test Saturday when leading all the way under Martin Garcia to win the Grade 2, $205,200 Indiana Oaks at Hoosier Park.
Trainer Bob Baffert had expressed optimism beforehand that Always a Princess, an accomplished 2-year-old last year, would handle the 1 1/16-mile distance of the Indiana Oaks when making her second start at 3. He was right.