DEL MAR, Calif. - Saturday’s pick six at Del Mar returned $35,553 on a day when bettors added $5,059,121 to the pool while chasing a track record three-day pick six carryover of $1,597,470.
The pick six was not hit from Wednesday through Friday, but there were 124 winning tickets on Saturday.
The winning horses in Saturday’s pick six were Movie Duty ($7.40), May Day Rose ($3.20), Dreamed to Dream ($8.40), Tell a Kelly ($11.20), Details R Sketchy ($10.80), and Harmony’s Hope ($22.40).
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Todd Pletcher needed four horses to defeat Bob Baffert’s one in Sunday’s Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes.
R Heat Lightning, the least regarded of the Pletcher quartet by the betting public, rallied from last and motored past a leg-weary Alienation outside the sixteenth pole en route to a four-length victory in the $250,000 Spinaway at Saratoga. The Baffert-trained Alienation, who was part of a hot early pace, held second by 2 1/2 lengths over the Pletcher-trained Valiant Passion.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Get Serious turned in one of the gutsiest efforts of his career Sunday to win the Grade 3, $197,500 Red Bank Stakes on the turf at Monmouth Park.
Nothing went his way, and yet the 6-year-old New York-bred gelding prevailed by a neck over Nownownow for his third graded stakes win of the meet before 16,017 on a spectacular early fall afternoon on the Jersey Shore.
Get Serious stumbled badly at the break. He quickly recovered, but that miscue let At the Disco seize the lead.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Given how speed-favoring the turf at Saratoga had become, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin wasn’t loving where Lethal Combination was in the early stages of Sunday’s $100,000 Saranac Stakes.
Until he saw the fractions, that is.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Officeinthevalley put away two rivals on the lead and kept on going to notch his first stakes win in his turf debut Sunday at Woodbine in the $125,800 Vice Regent.
Officeinthevalley dueled with Iwillgotothemoon and Sir Andrew through quick fractions in the one-mile event for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds. He began to draw off in the final sixteenth, and got home on top by 2 1/4 lengths over favored Mobil Unit in 1:35.86. He paid $15.60.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - As expected, Woodward winner Quality Road will train up to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6, his connections said Sunday.
Trainer Todd Pletcher said statistically his stable is successful with horses coming off extended layoffs. Quality Road himself has run dynamic races off lengthy layoffs, including setting a track record here going 6 1/2 furlongs in last year’s Amsterdam off a 128-day layoff and running the second fastest Metropolitan Handicap in May off a 114-day freshening.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Even though the top two finishers from Saturday’s Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga will be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6, it is possible they could end up in different races.
Here Comes Ben, who won the $250,000 Forego by three-quarters of a length over Big Drama, is likely to be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, while Big Drama will definitely be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at six furlongs.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Majesticperfection, who vaulted to the top of the sprint division with dynamic victories in Iowa and New York in his last two starts, suffered a condylar fracture in his right foreleg during a workout Sunday morning at Saratoga, an injury that could end his racing career.
Majesticperfection was scheduled to undergo surgery at the Saratoga Equine Clinic at some point Sunday during which time Dr. Alan Nixon would insert one screw to stabilize the cannon bone, according to Sasha Sanan, racing manager for Padua Stables.
Fiscal Policy justified her favoritism Saturday at River Downs when she drew off to a 6 1/4-length triumph in the $50,000 Bassinet Stakes.
With Rex Stokes aboard, Fiscal Policy dueled three wide with two other fillies down the backstretch in the six-furlong Bassinet, then began edging clear after turning for home to easily prevail. She returned $4.20 after finishing in 1:13.40 over a fast track.
“I asked my filly for some run, and she won with plenty in the tank,” said Stokes.