Rahy's Attorney ($4) put away a persistent Sand Cove in the stretch en route to capturing the $125,400 Bunty Lawless Stakes at Woodbine Saturday.
Rahy's Attorney vied with Sand Cove and My Imperial Dancer along the rail on the turn through slow fractions in the one-mile turf route. Rahy's Attorney and Sand Cove dueled until the sixteenth pole, where Rahy's Attorney began to draw away. He registered a three-length victory in a time of 1:37.81 over the soft going.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Bruce Levine was not concerned with any of the 10 horses his Driven by Success was set to face in Saturday's at Belmont Park.
Mother Nature? That was another story.
"The only thing that was going to get him beat was the slop," Levine said.
But even Mother Nature did not prove a worthy adversary to Driven by Success, who took control of the Hudson soon after the start and splashed his way to a three-length victory in the Hudson for New York-breds. Legal Consent rallied to be second, 2 1/4 lengths ahead of Citifest.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Misremembered, the winner of two Grade 2 stakes for 3-year-olds this year, will skip the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 7 and be pointed to the $400,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs on Nov. 27, trainer Bob Baffert said on Saturday.
Baffert said that he would prefer to keep Misremembered in easier company this fall, and point the colt to the Strub Series at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting.
"He's a big, immature horse," Baffert said. "I want him for the Strub. I want a good horse for the Strub."
Jonesboro has been working sharply at Remington Park and is being considered for a start in the Grade 3, $100,000 Ack Ack Handicap at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6, said his trainer, Randy Morse.
The horse would be cutting back to a mile for the race after finishing an uncharacteristic seventh last out in the Grade 2, $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup. Jonesboro was one of the top choices in the mile and a quarter race run on a wet track at Hawthorne on Oct. 3.
"He didn't like the mud," Morse said. "He didn't like the going."
Heavy rains overnight in central Maryland curtailed the number of turf races on Saturday's Frank De Francis Memorial Dash card at Laurel Park and forced a distance change in the Find Handicap.
Two of the four events scheduled for grass were moved to the main track. A $16,000 claimer (race 3) and a first-level optional $50,000 claimer for 2-yaar-olds (race 5) were both shifted to one mile on a dirt track listed as fast.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Lucky James extended his winning streak to three Friday night, prevailing by a half-length over Easy Gallop in the $78,050 Eillo Stakes at the Meadowlands.
The race scratched down to four runners with the defections of Fleet Valid, who is expected to run Saturday afternoon in the Grade 1 De Francis Memorial at Laurel, and Secretintelligence.
Mister Triester, the 3-2 favorite, set the pace under continual pressure from Easy Gallop with Lucky James laying a close-up third.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jockey John Velazquez and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin swept both divisions of the Grade 3 Pin Oak Valley View Stakes with upset winners when Bluegrass Princess and Eye of Taurus notched their first stakes wins on a breezy, overcast Friday afternoon at Keeneland.
Bluegrass Princess returned $17.20 after getting a good stalking trip in the . The Dynaformer filly put away the front-running even-money favorite, Silver Reunion, before gliding away to a two-length score over Single Solution, a 14-1 shot who was up in the final jumps to get second from Kiawah Cat.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The second step on Jambalaya's comeback trail has been put on hold, as the 7-year-old gelding was entered in Sunday's $100,000 Chief Bearhart but will not start.
"The turf course is a little bit chewed up right now, and because of the extra rain it's not a good time to be running him," said Catherine Day Phillips, who trains Jambalaya and runs him under her family's Kingfield Racing Stable banner.
STICKNEY, Ill. - The summer of 2009 proved a surprising triumph for jockey Junior Alvarado, but since he captured the riding title at the Arlington Park meet that ended in late September, things have not gone as well. Alvarado rode She Be Wild to victory in the Arlington-Washington Lassie, but was taken off that 2-year-old filly in favor of Garrett Gomez for the Alicibiades Stakes, in which she finished second. And now, Alvarado will miss the remainder of 2009 to undergo surgery on an ailing right shoulder, his agent, Oscar Sanchez, said.
