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Jockeys

With many riders out of town last week, wins were spread around quite a bit. From May 31, Memorial Day, to June 6, Robby Albarado won the most races, 5 from 23 mounts. Three jockeys - Miguel Mena, Corey Lanerie, and Calvin Borel - closely followed with four wins.

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Jockeys Luis Saez and Manoel Cruz continue to separate themselves from the rest of the pack this meeting. Saez won a dozen races during the week ending on Memorial Day, taking a seemingly commanding lead in the standings. But that advantage quickly evaporated after Cruz captured eight races in a three-day span last week, including four Friday and three Sunday.

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Rock Hard Ten

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times . . . ?

That pretty much sums up my three whiffs on 3-year-old turf-race winners sired by Rock Hard Ten last Friday and Saturday: Krypton ($6) handed odds-on Nordic Truce his first defeat in the Hill Prince; Shirley She Can ($16.80) was the first Nick Zito-trained grass winner since at least 2008; and Devon Rock ($7), a $440,000 purchase as a juvenile, was a good-looking maiden graduate switching to grass second time out.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Dancingall Theway ($12) won his first stakes with determination Wednesday night at Woodbine in the $125,800 New Providence.

It was the third win on the card for jockey Chantal Sutherland, who had Dancingall Theway in a three-wide pace-pressing position on the turn in the six-furlong sprint. They hit the front early in the stretch, and then held 17-1 outsider Gypsy Ring at bay before edging away to prevail by three-quarters of a length in 1:09.32.

Though favorites were blanked in Wednesday's pick six at Belmont Park, there were still five winning tickets, each worth $552,535.

The winning numbers were 4-3-10-7-1-11. Five out of six paid $884.

With a three-day carryover of $930,495 on ice since Belmont Stakes Day, an additional $3,301,873 was bet into the pool on Wednesday.

The winners were Macho Joe ($5.20), Landlash ($44.00), Hooligan's Delight ($9.10), John Wyatt ($10.00), Starforaday ($10.80), and Night Spirit ($15.80).

Bill Handleman, longtime racing writer and columnist for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 62.

Handleman joined the Asbury Park Press in 1980 and covered Thoroughbred horse racing as well as other sports for the paper up until 2006, when he began writing columns for the news department.

Handleman's coverage of the international case involving David Goldman and his son, Sean, a 4-year-old taken to Brazil by his mother who later died, earned him a nomination for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - At 76, with 50 years of experience in Quarter Horse racing, trainer Blane Schvaneveldt knew quite well what he saw when Leave the Scene zipped 350 yards in 17.21 seconds to win the first division of the Ed Burke Million Futurity trials at Los Alamitos last Saturday.

The suspense of seeing which 2-year-old would be worth following in the $1,064,000 final on June 19 was over after the first of 12 time trials. Schvaneveldt knew he had the horse to beat.

Trainer Richard Genovese debuted a horse in Tuesday's fourth race at Thistledown named for a very depressing day in Cleveland Browns football history. Redriteeightyeight, a colt that brought a bid of $6,000 at auction two years ago as a yearling, finished third in his career debut, a $10,000 maiden claiming dash.

The Browns trailed the Oakland Raiders 14-12 with less than a minute to play in a 1981 playoff game. Red Right 88 was football speak for the pass play the Browns called instead of kicking a field goal. The pass, intended for Ozzie Newsome, was intercepted.

Trainer Richard Rettele and veteran jockey Jose Delgado teamed for four winners on the opening-day card at Pinnacle on Saturday. The pair scored with Ocean's are Wild ($13.80) in the second and Music Conductor ($9.40) in the sixth. They then closed the day winning the eighth race with Cheries Challenge ($4.60), who ran her win streak to four, and the ninth race with Native Britches ($14.20).