BOSSIER CITY, La. - Cleverly handled by Gerard Melancon, Middleweight delivered a knockout punch with a strong challenge in upper stretch to capture Sunday's Sport City Handicap at Harrah's Louisiana Downs. Crowned King made a late run and finished a willing second followed by Tromp.
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DRF Past Performances
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mobil captured the Halton Stakes in front-running style for the third year in a row over Lenny the Lender Sunday at Woodbine, while One for Rose took the Algoma Stakes for the third straight time on the same card.
The Halton and Algoma were two of six stakes on the 11-race card restricted to graduates of local yearling sales.
Patrick Husbands guided Mobil through slow fractions in the $125,000 Halton. They held Lenny the Lender at bay through the stretch, and won the nine-furlong turf event by a length, in a final time of 1:49.06 seconds.
Longshot Misty Glow outfinished Phone Affair following a long stretch drive to account for Saturday night's Matron Handicap at Evangeline. Only a nose separated the top finishers at the wire while it was another two and three quarter lengths back to Leestown Lib in third. Starting highweight Good Humor Gal was fourth followed by 6-5 favorite Keep this Cat who faded after racing prominently early in the one-mile test for fillies and mares.
Rains forced Retama Park's pair of $100,000 turf stakes for 2-year-olds to a sloppy main track Saturday night, and upsets were scored by Almost Certain in the Ketel One El Joven, and Jb's Golden Regret in the M2 Technology La Senorita.
The races made for one of the richest cards of the meet, which is held near San Antonio.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Penny Ante ($7) broke sharply, quickly took the lead and was never headed as she scored her second straight stakes victory, winning the $72,200 Hillsborough Handicap at Bay Meadows on Saturday.
The 4-year-old filly defeated odds-on Pickle by 1 1/4 lengths, winning the one-mile turf race in 1:37.77. Lucky Sabre ran third as the top three finishers repeated their placings in the Luther Burbank at Santa Rosa.
Penny Ante was able to set slow fractions of 24.38, 48.89 and 1:13.04.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Intercontinental, the 5-year-old mare, can be stubborn or brilliant at various times. In Saturday's $200,000 at Del Mar, she was a little of both in the same race.
Leading throughout, Intercontinental was rank early under jockey Jerry Bailey but settled on the backstretch before flying home to win by 1 1-4 lengths over Amorama. Intercontinental ($2.60) finished 1 1-16 miles on turf in a stakes record 1:39.84.
"As long as she got clear and was able to settle, she was fine," Bailey said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Bobby Frankel won the Forego Stakes Saturday at Saratoga for the third consecutive time, when 15-1 longshot Mass Media wore down pacesetter Battle Won in the final 50 yards to win by a half-length.
The , a Grade 1, $250,000 race, was part of jockey Javier Castellano's five-win day.
DEL MAR, Calif. - arrived in trainer Neil Drysdale's barn only days before his first start in California, in a division of the Oceanside Stakes on Del Mar's opening day July 20. Drysdale had no idea what to expect. But after Becrux led from start to finish in the Oceanside, then continued to train strongly in subsequent weeks, Drysdale knew he had a top-class runner on his hands.
"He's a very nice horse," Drysdale said Saturday morning.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - There cannot be a better advertisement for this week's Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's annual yearling sale than its millionaire graduate A Bit O'Gold, who is the 120-pound highweight in Monday's Grade 2, $334,200 Niagara Breeders' Cup Handicap at Woodbine.
A Bit O'Gold should be favored in the Niagara, which will be contested at 1 1/2 miles on the grass. It is a prep for the $2 million Pattison Canadian International here Oct. 23, a Grade 1 event that is on A Bit O'Gold's itinerary.