Celeritas ($3) drew out to an 8 1/2-length win over Grammy Girl in the $20,000 Kansas Oaks at The Woodlands on Sunday. Alex Birzer was aboard the winner for trainer Jason Mamakos.
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South Americans outperformed their North American counterparts in Sunday's $150,000 Dowager Stakes at Keeneland, with Chilean-breds Omeya and Eres Magica finishing first and second, respectively in the 1 1/2-mile turf race.
Omeya won the race by one length with her closing punch. Last of nine turning into the lane, she accelerated in the final quarter- mile to outkick the runner-up and catch Jade Queen, the midstretch leader and eventual third-place finisher. She raced 1 1/2 miles in 2:31.15, paying $15.40 as the fourth choice.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The upset win by Wide Mandate ($75.40) in Sunday's $94,675 Jack Goodman Stakes at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting was a good news/bad news situation for trainer Mel Stute.
Wide Mandate scored his first stakes win, and Stute had $4 to win, but he got blown out of a series of dime superfecta bets by third-place finisher Remember Boffi, an 11-1 longshot.
More importantly, Stute, and owners Archa Racing, have a colt that could return in the $125,000 California Cup Juvenile on Nov. 3.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Relegated to nine deep on the alternate list for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, Cannonball also found himself on the also-eligible list for Sunday's $79,200 King Cugat, one of four overnight stakes on closing day at Belmont Park.
But he got the scratch he needed to get into that field and took full advantage by recording a nose victory over Sundaysunday.
There is no doubt that Bel Air Beauty is a special filly at Keeneland. Winner of the Grade 2 Alcibiades over the track's Polytrack surface last year, she returned to Keeneland to take last Friday's Grade 3 Valley View Stakes over the turf course.
Next month, she will likely get a chance to prove she is not a one-racetrack specialist. Trainer Frank Brothers said Monday that if Bel Air Beauty trains well in the coming weeks, she would be pointed toward the Nov. 10 Mrs. Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs, a Grade 2, 1 1/16-mile grass race for 3-year-old fillies.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mrs. Lindsay was an expected winner of Sunday's $1 million E.P. Taylor Stakes here at Woodbine, but the margin of victory was unexpectedly close.
Invading from France for trainer Francois Rohaut, Mrs. Lindsay was the only Group 1 or Grade 1 winner in the E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile turf race for fillies and mares.
And she remained so despite a huge effort by locally based Sealy Hill, who swept to the front to open a clear lead in midstretch before yielding to the relentless Mrs. Lindsay by a half-length.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Just call him the Silky Sullivan of the Southwest. After trailing the Oklahoma Derby field by more than 20 lengths, Going Ballistic unleashed an explosive rally on the final turn en route to a 3 1/4-length win in the $300,000 race run Sunday at Remington Park.
"I was impressed with his move," said Donnie Von Hemel, who trains Going Ballistic for Kindred Thoroughbreds. "He had the race in hand at the eighth pole and cruised on in from there."
ARCADIA, Calif. - As if there wasnt enough going on in horse racing this week, there is a pick six carryover of $142,777 at Santa Anita on Wednesday.
Just a few days in advance of the Breeders Cup on Friday and Saturday, the focus of Wednesdays races at Santa Anita will be primarily on bettors trying to hit a big score. The program includes just one allowance race, a sprint on the hillside turf course for statebred fillies and mares.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Cloudy's Knight ($38.70) held off a late bid from favored Ask to capture the $2 million Canadian International at Woodbine Sunday.
It was the third start in Canada this year for Cloudy's Knight, which makes him eligible for Sovereign Award consideration, and he figures to garner lots of support in the voting for Canadian Horse of the Year honors.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Alice Belle improved her turf record to 5-for-9 when she overtook Midsummer Magic for a two-length win in the $75,000 Remington Park Oaks on Saturday night. Midsummer Magic held second, while it was another length back in third to Aidans Bella.
The Oaks was the richest of three stakes run on what was the eve of the $300,000 Oklahoma Derby.