Bridgetown lowered the Monmouth Park course record for about 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf with his front-running victory Monday in the $104,000 Gilded Time Stakes for 3-year-olds.
The 13-10 favorite, Bridgetown was clocked in 1:00.67.
The Gilded Time and the $95,200 Sorority for 2-year-old fillies were the featured events on the final day of Monmouth's summer meet before a Labor Day crowd of 8,616.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Boys At Tosconova maintained his spot among the leaders of the juvenile male division with a solid 1 3/4-length victory in Monday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Trainer Danny Miller and jockey Florent Geroux notched the first graded stakes win of their respective careers Monday when pacesetting Dade Babe ran away with the Grade 3, $100,000 Pucker Up Stakes at Arlington Park.
Dane Kobiskie clinched his second straight leading trainer title at the Maryland State Fair at Timonium by sending out four more winners on Monday’s closing-day card.
Kobiskie wound up with 10 winners from 28 starters, earning the largest share of a $10,000 bonus that went to the top four trainers at the meeting.
J. D. Acosta rode two winners on Labor Day and 10 overall to earn his second riding title in the past three years at Timonium. Jenna Joubert nearly caught Acosta on closing day when she rode three winners to wind up with nine.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The two horses involved in a controversial bumping incident during the Del Mar Derby on Sunday emerged from the race on Monday in a manner most befitting what had happened the previous day, with Twirling Candy, the runaway winner after bolting five furlongs from the wire, just fine, and Summer Movie, who finished last after being interfered with, “a little bit body sore,” according to his trainer, Art Sherman.
Jockey Jamie Theriot swept both six-figure stakes on Monday’s Labor Day holiday card at Parx Racing, upsetting the inaugural running of the $300,000 Smarty Jones for 3-year-olds with Thiskyhasnolimit and guiding defending champion Chamberlain Bridge to a come-from-behind score in the $251,000 Turf Monster Handicap.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mesa Cielo upset 3-10 favorite Sand Cove in the first of six $125,000 yearling sales stakes at Woodbine Monday in the 1 1/16-mile Elgin for older males.
Mesa Cielo ($14.50) went right to the front and set slow fractions under Jim McAleney, en route to a 2 1/2-length score over Mobthewarrior, in a time of 1:43.98. After tracking the front-runner, Sand Cove faded in the stretch to finish a distant third in the five-horse field.
Bug Juice, ridden by John Davila Jr., shot to the front at the start of Monday’s $128,975 Aspirant Stakes for New York-bred 2-year-olds at Finger Lakes and cruised to a seven-length victory.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Trying to beat J P’s Gusto, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has found out, is difficult with just one bullet. So when the Grade 1, $250,000 Del Mar Futurity is run on Wednesday’s closing-day card here, Hollendorfer will put a couple of rounds in the chamber, hoping either Indian Winter or Western Mood can knock off the pro-tem leader of the 2-year-old division in California.
Saturday’s $50,000 Angel Island could make up for the disappointment of the cancellation of Monday’s $50,000 Rosie the Riveter at Golden Gate Fields.
The Angel Island is a 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-olds. The unbeaten Luckarack is the probable favorite after capturing the Everett Nevin at Pleasanton and Cavonnier at Santa Rosa. Also expected to run are King Cola and Kingsford Drive, who were second and third in the Cavonnier; Bluegrass Reward, who won a one-mile maiden race at Santa Rosa; and El Gaucho.