LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The 2009 Horse of the Year and the 2009 Kentucky Derby winner were sent through solo five-furlong breezes two hours apart Monday morning at Churchill Downs when Rachel Alexandra went in 1:03 and Mine That Bird went in 59.80 seconds.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. - My Summer Slew won his first stakes in Sunday's at Hollywood Park, defeating a field that included a game pacesetter in the filly Unzip Me and the three-time Group 1 winner Scenic Blast.
My Summer Slew ($9.20) benefited from an ideal ride from jockey Alonso Quinonez, who had his mount well-placed throughout.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Way With Words, the only New Jersey-bred in the field, rallied to beat Saarlight by a neck on Sunday in the for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.
It was the second straight stakes win here for the 6-year-old trained by Maryland-based Mary Eppler. Way With Words beat statebreds in her previous race, the Open Mind Handicap. The Blue Sparkler, at the same six-furlong distance, was a stiffer test against open company.
Once again, Way With Words was up to the challenge at the track where she is 8-3-0 in 15 races.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Grand Adventure put away favored Get Stormy in the stretch en route to a handy score in the at Woodbine on Sunday.
Grand Adventure pressed a moderate pace on the outside under Patrick Husbands, before taking control early in the stretch. He held off a closing Rahy s Attorney in the final 70 yards prevail by a length, in a time of 1:36.40, over a soggy course labeled as good. Ice Bear finished third, and Get Stormy faded to fourth in the nine-horse field.
ALTOONA, Iowa - ALTOONA, Iowa - Concord Point ended the Iowa Festival of Racing undercard with an exclamation when he scored an impressive 8 1/2-length victory over five rivals in the at Prairie Meadows Saturday night.
Concord Point ($6.80) entered the race off a second-place finish to Smiling Tiger in the seven-furlong Laz Barrera at Hollywood Park. The added distance and second turn of the 1 1/16-mile Iowa Derby seemed to work in his favor.
Red Rock Springs held off a bid from favorite Texas Silver for a half-length win Saturday in the $136,221 Mountain Top Futurity at Ruidoso Downs. It was another neck back in third to Quick Flag.
Red Rock Springs ($9.80) led through an opening quarter of 22.41 seconds in the five-furlong race for New Mexico-breds. He maintained his advantage through a half-mile in 46.11 seconds, then went on to win in 59.25 over a track rated good.
Mark Villa rode the winner for owner-trainer Tony Sedillo. Red Rock Springs has now won 2 of 4 starts and $77,182.
It's about 330 miles from Altoona, Iowa, to the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, but at the finish of Saturday night's Cornhusker Handicap, Prairie Meadows might as well have been in Chicago. There was Arlington-based Shadowbdancing holding clear Arlington-based, Illinois-bred Racing Bran to win the by one length.
Aboard the winner was longtime Chicago rider Eddie Razo, summering this year at Prairie Meadows, while Chris Emigh, in from Chicago for the races, piloted Racing Bran.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Turning Top's win in Saturday's
at Hollywood Park produced milestones for the 4-year-old filly, her 26-year-old trainer Simon Callaghan, and her 37-year-old jockey Brice Blanc.
Turning Top won her first graded stakes in the Grade 3 Beverly Hills. It was the first win at the graded level in the United States for Callaghan, who relocated from England to California last winter, and for Blanc, the Beverly Hills was his first graded stakes win in more than two years.