HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Jockey Shaun Bridgmohan completed the most memorable day of his riding career when he steered Gaff to a neck victory over War Front in Saturday's $100,000 at Gulfstream Park. The win gave Bridgmohan a sweep of all three stakes on the card, following victories aboard On Thin Ice in the $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap and Doctor Decherd in the $125,000 Aventura Stakes.
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OLDSMAR, Fla. - The Jose Lezcano freight train got temporarily sidetracked Friday when the jockey who had threatened to run away and hide in the race for leading rider at Tampa Bay Downs was hit with a five-day suspension for careless riding.
In more ways than one, there was simply no competition for Celestial Legend in the $75,000 Marshua Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday.
Three scratches left only three rivals to face Celestial Legend in the 5 1/2-furlong stakes for 3-year-old fillies, and she remained unbeaten in five starts by coasting to a 12-length victory.
Capitalizing on a seasoning edge, Final Copy rallied from sixth to win the $50,000 Turfway Prevue by 3 1/4 Lengths over Warrior Within.
The winningest 3-year-old in the 11-horse field with three victories heading into the race, Final Copy settled in a perfect position early, stalking the pace while three others engaged in a battle up front. As the leaders began to tire after setting fractions of 23.77 and 47.24 seconds over the tiring Polytrack surface, he began to advance under Jesus Castanon, and once into the stretch, the race was quickly over.
Avoiding trouble at the start that eliminated several of her rivals, Platinum Perfect chased the early leader for a half-mile, then rallied into the stretch to take over the lead and posted a length victory in the $60,000 Minaret Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
Ridden by the meeting's leading rider, Jose Lezcano, Platinum Perfect ($6.20) covered the six furlongs over a fast racing strip in 1:10.68 to post her seventh win from 15 outings. The $34,500 winner's share of the purse raised her career earnings to $218,350.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The Southern California filly-mare grass colony returns home Sunday at Santa Anita for the division's first graded stakes in two months. It's about time.
The race is the Grade 2 San Gorgonio Handicap, a 1 1/8-mile oasis for a race-starved group that scattered across the country during the all-dirt meet at Hollywood Park. The San Gorgonio entrants are familiar in California, even if their recent running lines are not.
ARCADIA, Calif. - It's not the usual style for trainer Richard Mandella to jump a maiden winner straight into a stakes race. And, truth be told, he would rather have put Peace Chant in an allowance race. One Union, too.
"I tried to run them in an allowance race, but it wouldn't go," Mandella said. "So I had to go here. They're both in the same boat."
ARCADIA, Calif. - Giacomo, the Kentucky Derby winner, will not make next week's San Fernando Breeders' Cup Stakes at Santa Anita. In fact, he wasn't even nominated to the race.
The deadline to nominate to the Grade 2, $200,000 San Fernando was Thursday night, but Giacomo was not among the nominees. He did, however, work Friday morning at Hollywood Park, covering six furlongs in 1:14.80.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Honor in War is a Grade 1 winner, Remind and Big Booster love the course, and Saint Stephen is coming off a brutal trip. Those are just a few of the handicapping angles that will come into play for fans trying to select the winner of Sunday's wide- open Ft. Lauderdale Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
The Ft. Lauderdale will be decided under allowance conditions at 1 1/16 miles on the turf for a $75,000 purse.