Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Two in a row for Graeme Six

Graeme Six picked up her second straight stakes victory when she darted to a 1 1/2-length win over Sutra in the $50,000 Carousel before an Oaklawn Park crowd of 20,991. It was another neck back in third to Classify.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Big Brown looms large for Derby

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Big Brown completed the remarkable jump from virtual anonymity to the likely Kentucky Derby favorite in a period of less than four weeks after posting an eye-catching five-length victory over Smooth Air and 10 other overmatched rivals in Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby. The triumph also completed a dream day for trainer Rick Dutrow, who earlier won two rich stakes on the Dubai World Cup card with Diamond Stripes and Benny the Bull.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Arcata wins photo finish

Only five horses went to the gate in the $62,200 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial at Laurel Park, but it took a photo to separate two of them at the finish as Arcata bobbed his head at the right time to nose out a persistent Eddie C. in the 1 1/8-mile race.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Salute the Sarge joins Derby chase

Save a spot on the Kentucky Derby trail for Salute the Sarge.

Saturday at Santa Anita, Salute the Sarge made a successful 3-year-old debut in the $78,000 San Miguel Stakes over six furlongs, a race that trainer Eric Guillot says was a prep for the $325,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland on April 19.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

She's All Eltish takes control

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - She's All Eltish had yet to run a bad race in her first six career starts. But she'd never run a race nearly as good as the one she ran Saturday when she drew off to a convincing 6 3/4-length victory over Robbie's Gal in the $200,000 Bonnie Miss Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Princess Composer continues climb

Princess Composer began her career at the bottom of the Turfway Park racing ladder, debuting and racing in the $5,000 claiming ranks. Now, a little more than a year later, she fits at the other end of the class spectrum as a stakes winner at the track.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Wow Me Free goes back north a winner

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Wow Me Free arrived in New York from Canada last December winless in six stakes tries, including losses on dirt, Polytrack, and turf.

But her fortunes turned greatly running over Aqueduct's inner track this winter, and Wow Me Free will return to Canada a multiple stakes winner after taking Saturday's Grade 3, $106,400 Next Move Handicap at Aqueduct by 3 1/2 lengths over Runway Rosie. The Next Move victory came 105 days after Wow Me Free won the Ladies Handicap here by a neck on Dec. 15.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Pair of fillies top Bennett's big meet

OLDSMAR, Fla. - It's not often that a trainer has a meet where he sends out winners at a 30 percent clip and gets little notice for it, but that's just what's been happening with Dale Bennett this season.

Bennett came into Saturday's racing with 29 winners from 97 starters for a cool 30 percent success rate, but with training leader Jamie Ness capturing 50 races so far at the meeting, Bennett's fine winter has gone largely unnoticed.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Jay Peg and his jockey hold on

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - On paper, Jay Peg wasn't even the top horse from his own stable in the Dubai Duty Free at Nad Al Sheba on Saturday night, but Jay Peg not only beat stablemate Linngari, he beat all 15 rivals in a strange, thrilling edition of the $5 million Duty Free.

Sat, 03/29/2008 - 00:00

Dutrow wins two Dubai stakes

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The trainer Rick Dutrow had never shipped a horse to Dubai until this year. Dutrow sent two this time, and won with both of them.

With Edgar Prado doing the riding honors, the Dutrow-trained Benny the Bull won the $2 million Golden Shaheen just more than an hour after Diamond Stripes had captured the $1 million Godolphin Mile.