OZONE PARK, N.Y. - All's well that ends well indeed for the New York-bred Dave in Saturday's $150,000 Red Smith Handicap at Aqueduct.
Despite being by the New York-based sire Ends Well, Dave was ineligible for Sunday's $75,000 Cormorant division of the New York Stallion Stakes because a previous owner did not make sustaining payments.
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Tiger Speech has been named the 2007 Horse of the Year at Finger Lakes by the local Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association. A 5-year-old gelding trained by Michael S. Ferraro, Tiger Speech won three handicap races at the track this year.
ALBANY, Calif. - Tissy Fit was content to sit back early, saved ground most of the way, then moved out in the lane to wear down Porfido and Zappa - who got first run on him - to win the $75,000 Tanforan Stakes on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields.
Tissy Fit was making his first start since being claimed for $40,000 at Calder on Aug. 5. Jockey Juan Ochoa settled him off the slow pace set by Newton John over the yielding turf course, but he always was within striking distance in the 1 3/8-mile race.
Mark Guidry closed out his outstanding riding career by winning with one of five mounts Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
Guidry won the eighth race with Eaton's Gift ($7.40)
before finishing seventh in the Mrs. Revere Stakes aboard Bel Air Beauty and ninth with
his final career mount, the maiden Holy Roman Empire, in the last of 10 races.
Guidry, 48, concludes his 32-year career with 5,043 wins. He is retiring with the hopes of becoming a steward.
Sarasponda needed every inch of the stretch to defeat five other Ohio-accredited 2-year-old fillies in the $50,000 Glacial Princess at Beulah Park.
Breaking from the outside post under jockey Scott Spieth, Sarasponda ($2.20) was taken back and to the inside, the best part of the track the past few weeks, before angling out into the stretch and rallying to get up by a neck in the one-mile race.
Trained by Joe Shuman, Sarasponda made it three wins in a row. She was sent off as the 1-9 favorite after the scratch of What's Left, the second choice on the morning line.
A rabbit whose job was to soften up front-running favorite Forty Crowns accomplished his assignment. The main beneficiary, however, was not the rabbit's stablemate but Headsandtales.
The second longest shot in a field of nine Maryland-bred turf runners, Headsandtales ($52) got a perfect inside trip under jockey Jonathan Joyce and drew off to a 1 3/4-length victory in the $50,000 Find Handicap at Laurel Park.
Like a Gem ($17) held off New York invader I'm in Love in the stretch to capture Saturday's $207,000 Maple Leaf Stakes at Woodbine.
Vancouver shipper Monashee, the 8-5 favorite who was seeking her 12th consecutive win, finished a dull eighth in the 10-horse field of fillies and mares.
Like a Gem led through an opening quarter-mile in 24.24 seconds in the 1 1/4-mile event. She was overtaken on the first turn by Serenading, who got the half-mile in 48.91 and three-quarters in 1:14.25.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Barclay Tagg likes coming to Kentucky. The New York-based trainer enjoyed the greatest victory of his career when Funny Cide won the 2003 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, and after saddling Bit of Whimsy to win the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup last month at Keeneland, horse and trainer were back for more Saturday in the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs.
MIAMI - A lot has changed in the world over the last couple of years but one thing has remained the same - the winner of Calder's $150,000 Bonnie Heath Turf Handicap.
On Saturday, Live Oak Plantation's amazing Revved Up captured his third consecutive Bonnie Heath Turf Cup after narrowly fending off a furious finish from the promising 3-year-old Soldier's Dancer. Revved Up's nose decision over his younger rival was the highlight of the eight statebred stakes decided on the Florida Million Day program, which offered total puses of $1.2 million.