New York Gold, a well-beaten second behind Ruby's Rocket in the Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes two weeks earlier, turned the tables when she drew clear by a length in the final yards to win Monday's $20,800 Fall Handicap, an overnight race for fillies and mares, at Finger Lakes.
New York Gold, 5, trained by Michael Lecesse, finished 5 1/4 lengths behind Ruby's Rocket at 1 1/16 miles on a fast track Sept. 10.
New York Gold ($10) ran a mile and 70 yards on a sloppy track in 1:42.75.
On Tuesday night, the record for five furlongs on turf fell for the third time since the meet opened in August when Calling Randy wired the field in a $10,000 claiming sprint in 55.14 seconds. The old mark of 55.62 was set by Orphan Brigade on Aug. 30, and before that, Daring Child set a record of 55.70 on Aug. 20.
Heading into the meet, Otro Mambo held the record - 55.85, set four years earlier.
Quincy Hamilton rode Calling Randy, who set fractions of 21.21 seconds and 43.58 seconds and drew off to more than a three-length win. He is trained by Frederico Villafranco.
Trainer Denny Ekins sends out his stable's top stakes winners, Ocean Runaway and Finding Nemo, in stakes at Los Alamitos on Friday and Saturday.
Ocean Runaway will be a strong favorite in Friday's Grade 2, $119,000 PCQHRA Breeders' Derby, while Finding Nemo will run in Saturday's Grade 1, $387,000 PCQHRA Breeders' Futurity.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Commingling, by which Canadian horseplayers bet directly into the pools at U.S. tracks, will take a major step forward beginning with the start of the Keeneland meeting on Oct. 7.
The first Thoroughbred track to offer commingled pools with Woodbine was Arlington, on Aug. 10, making the Canadian payoffs the same as those at the track.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Jerry Bailey and Bill Mott never truly broke up, it's just that they weren't seeing as much of each other as they had when they were dominating Thoroughbred racing in the mid- to late 1990's.
But the dynamic duo are back to their dominant ways, at least through the first three weeks of Belmont's fall meet. Mott is leading the trainer standings with 11 wins from 25 starters, while Bailey is a gaudy 20 for 40 through the first 13 racing days of this meet. Together, Mott and Bailey are 10 for 17.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Madame Diva is relatively inexperienced, but her 7 1/2-length maiden victory at Saratoga hints that she may be the most talented filly in Thursday's $65,000 Colonial Minstrel Stakes at Belmont.
Restricted to 3-year-old fillies who have never won an open stakes race, the Colonial Minstrel drew a field of nine, and Madame Diva will be trying to emulate her stablemate Great Intentions, another Mike Hushion-trained filly who dead-heated for the win in a similar overnight stakes last Sunday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Shadow Cast, the upset winner of the Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga, suffered a torn tendon in her right foreleg on Tuesday and has been retired, trainer Neil Howard said.
Shadow Cast suffered the injury during a workout over Belmont Park's main track in preparation for Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Beldame at Belmont. Shadow Cast was credited with a half-mile move in 49.54 seconds under exercise rider Annie Finney.
The pace of Saturday afternoon's Grade 2, $750,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs got quicker on Tuesday after The Daddy flew in with four other hopefuls for the race, and Military Major joined the field for owner George Steinbrenner.
Both horses will be stretching out around two turns for the 1 1/4-mile Super Derby. Military Major worked five furlongs in a bullet 58.40 seconds in his final prep Monday. The Daddy, who won his maiden over six furlongs in 1:09, faced Lost in the Fog last out, and finished fourth to him in the Grade 1 King's Bishop.
The Meadowlands Racetrack opens its 29th Thoroughbred meeting on Friday night, with its two richest races - the $250,000 Pegasus Stakes and $500,000 Meadowlands Cup - to be run the first week and likely to draw horses on course for the Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park on Oct. 29.
The Grade 3 Pegasus, for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles, tops an opening night card that includes three other stakes races. The Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup follows on Oct. 7.
Tuesday, the prospective Pegasus field was at four - Park Avenue Ball, Magna Graduate, Andromeda's Hero, and Network.
