OCEANPORT, N.J. - Get Serious won a third straight stakes at Monmouth Park, holding off Pleasant Strike by a neck Sunday in the
A 5-year-old New York-bred gelding trained by John Forbes, Get Serious started the stakes streak in the Battlefield on July 11 and secured another win in the off-the-turf Oceanport on the Haskell Day undercard.
In all three races, Get Serious scored a front-running victory with Pablo Fragoso aboard.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Third Dawn earned a one-month vacation for recording her first stakes win in Sunday's $100,000 Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar.
Trainer John Sadler said Third Dawn will be rested until October, and then brought back into training with the goal of having her ready for the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita in late December. The La Brea, run over seven furlongs, is the first of three stakes for 4-year-old fillies of 2010 that ends with the La Canada Stakes over 1 1/8 miles in early February.
OPELOUSAS, La. - Happyfromthegitgo ran her local record to a perfect 3 for 3 Saturday night as she captured the $75,000 Opelousas Stakes at Evangeline Downs. Deltalicious, who handed Happyfromthegitgo her only career defeat in the Louisiana Cup Juvenile Filly Stakes over a sloppy track at Louisiana Downs last month, finished three lengths back in second, followed by Time Due and Send Rose.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The 3-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra turned into the Saratoga stretch with a 1 1/2 length lead over seven older males in Saturday's , and a volcano of noise erupted from the rickety grandstands seldom heard at this historic venue.
The widest post in a field of 11 did not deter Takin' the Bullet in the $150,000 A.L. "Red" Erwin on Saturday at Louisiana Downs. He stalked the pace and drew clear by 5 1/2 lengths in the race, which was one of two stakes on the card for 3-year-olds bred in Louisiana. In the $56,000 Elge Rasberry, Muffin became a stakes winner when she closed rapidly for a half-length win over Cajun Conference.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Mi Sueno will go to Santa Anita this fall as the leading 2-year-old filly in California after her gutty win in Saturday's $300,000 Darley Debutante.
But the style of Saturday's win was not as attractive as her comprehensive victory by 6 1/2 lengths in the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes on Aug. 7.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. Pyro capped a magnificent meet for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Stable by rallying from next-to-last in a 12-horse field to win Saturday's by a half-length over Kodiak Kowboy. It was another half-length back to Ready's Echo in third.
The win was the eighth from 14 starters at the meet for Godolphin, including four Grade 1 victories. Godolphin's other Grade 1 wins came in the Test with Flashing, the Ballerina with Music Note, and the Go for Wand with Seventh Street,
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Tribal Belle led throughout Saturday's at Woodbine, under a clever ride from Jim McAleney.
McAleney guided Tribal Belle well off the dead rail after breaking from post 1, and they set slow fractions in the seven-furlong sprint for fillies and mares. Verdana Bold came inside the leader at the quarter pole, but Tribal Belle put that one away early in the stretch and then held off favored Simply Splendid to win by a neck, in a time of 1:22.44.
Exotic Bloom finished another four lengths back in third in the eight-horse field. Amazing was scratched.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - In the same way you know Calvin Borel is coming up the fence if he can, you just know that jockey E.T. Baird is going to the lead if at all reasonable. Yet Baird still put them all to sleep Saturday at Arlington Park, guiding Gran Estreno to a front-running victory in the .
