Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Reach One More takes command in Big Red Mile

LINCOLN, Neb. - Reach One More lived up to his odds-on favoritism as the big grey loped past his stablemate From the Ashes into the stretch and drew off for a 3 1 / 4-length win over a field of seven older Nebraska-bred rivals in the $20,700 Big Red Mile at Lincoln Race Course on Monday.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Check the Label roars to Sands Point win

ELMONT, N.Y. - As the field went around the far turn in the Sands Point Stakes on Monday at Belmont Park, Check the Label had nowhere to run. But once she found room in the stretch, her rivals had nowhere to hide.

Check the Label ($7.40), with a dramatic turn of foot, rocketed between rivals a furlong out and went on to win the by 1 1/2 lengths over the longshot Crescenda, with 2-1 favorite Negligee another 2 1/4 lengths back in third in the field of seven 3-year-old fillies.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Gypsy's Warning noses out Maram in Eatontown

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Gypsy's Warning edged Maram by a nose Monday in the Grade 3, $147,000 for fillies and mares on the turf, the first graded stakes of Monmouth Park's 50-day, $50 million summer meet.

In was impressive effort by Gypsy's Warning, a multiple Group 1 winner in her native South Africa making her United States debut while returning from a layoff of almost one year.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Victor's Cry gives Nakatani happy homecoming

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A return visit to Southern California for Monday's $250,000 provided jockey Corey Nakatani with his biggest win of the year aboard the longshot Victor's Cry.

Nakatani, who rode in Southern California until last October and has ridden in Arkansas and Kentucky earlier this year, scored his first graded stakes win of 2010 aboard Victor's Cry in the Grade 1 Shoemaker.

Nakatani needed a clear path in the final quarter-mile, and a willing closer in Victory's Cry ($44.40), to catch 9-5 favorite Karelian right at the wire and win by a head.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Mambo Meister proves just as good on dirt

MIAMI - Turf or dirt, it just doesn't seem to matter these days to Mambo Meister.

Five weeks after winning the Grade 3 Miami Mile over the turf, Mambo Meister returned on the main track to dominate Monday's Grade 3 Memorial Day Handicap at Calder, drawing off through the stretch to an easy 7 3/4-length victory over Causeway's Kin .

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Redding Colliery dominates Lone Star Handicap

By Mary Rampellini

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Redding Colliery looks like he might be an up and coming player in the handicap ranks after he put away a nice field of horses by 6 3/4 lengths Monday in the Grade 3, $300,000 .

The 1 1/16-mile race was the richest of seven stakes worth a cumulative $1 million. The program, known as Lone Star Million Day, is annually the most lucrative card of racing in Texas.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Mr. Windjammer takes Barker for second time

Mr. Windjammer came from far back to win the $50,000 George Barker Handicap for the second straight year on Monday afternoon at Finger Lakes.

Ninth of 10 older New York-bred sprinters with a quarter-mile remaining in the six-furlong sprint, Mr. Windjammer ($8.30) made up roughly 5 3/4 lengths in the final two furlongs and nailed pacesetter Pro's Pal at the wire to win by a neck.

The victory ended an eight-race losing streak for Mr. Windjammer, a 5-year-old gelding ridden by Gabriel Suarez for trainer Jonathan Buckley. The winning time was 1:11.17.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Wolfson invades Belmont for stakes

ELMONT, N.Y. - Handicappers have learned over the years to pay close attention when Florida-based trainer Marty Wolfson ships horses in to New York for graded stakes. Over the last 18 years - and not including You and I Forever in Monday's Metropolitan Handicap - Wolfson has won eight graded stakes in New York from just 41 starters.

This weekend, Wolfson will bring a mini-army of six to New York to compete in five of the eight stakes to be run Friday and Saturday.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Tuscan Evening may head to Arlington

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Tuscan Evening, who extended her 2010 winning streak to five races in Saturday's Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park, may become a Midwest girl this summer.

Monday, Dan Ward, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's assistant, said the $200,000 Modesty Handicap at Arlington Park on July 17 may be Tuscan Evening's next start, designed as a prep for the $750,000 Beverly D. Stakes, also at Arlington Park, on Aug. 21. Both races are over 1 3/16 miles on turf.

The timing of the Grade 3 Modesty Handicap is why the race is being considered.

Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00

Givinitaroyaleffort gets first win in futurity

Givinitaroyaleffort won his maiden in the Grade 1, $1 million Heritage Place Futurity for Quarter Horses on Saturday night, when he won a photo over Knuckles O'Toole. The race was the richest of seven stakes worth a cumulative $1.9 million at Remington Park.

Givinitaroyaleffort ($52.80) covered 350 yards in 17.40 seconds. Stormy Smith rode the winner for LMR 2010 and trainer Ed Hardy. Llano Teller, the nation's top-ranked 2-year-old Quarter Horse, was third, a nose behind Knuckles O'Toole.