INGLEWOOD, Calif. - An upset win by Kresgeville in Sunday's Manhattan Beach Handicap has led to a pick six carryover of $148,215 for Monday's 10-race program at Hollywood Park.
Monday's card already features a $1 million guaranteed pick six pool.
The pick six on Monday covers the fifth through 10th races. The fifth race is run over six furlongs for maiden claimers. Judge Gallivan, Zaentz and Gambler's Wager are scratched, allowing Valentine's Song to draw in from the also-eligible list.
ALBANY, Calif. - Lunachick ($3.20) broke alertly unlike her previous start in the Winners' Foundation Stakes and cruised to victory in the $55,412 Vallejo Stakes at Golden Gate Fields on Sunday.
"She broke good today, and it was pretty much over," said winning jockey Russell Baze, who never moved on the winner as she put up fractions of 21.08, 43.33 and 55.51 as she won the six-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies by four lengths over Hello Lucky in 1:08.42.
Winning trainer Steve Miyadi said he wasn't even looking at the fractions.
Bossier City, La. - Rodeo's Castle added another chapter to his storybook season Sunday afternoon, capturing the King's Court Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths at Harrah's Louisiana Downs. Favored Watchem Smokey won a three-horse photo for the place spot followed by Stormy But Crafty and Mama's Joy.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Le Cinquieme Essai ($5.50) held off 11-1 shot Tusayan in deep stretch for a determined triumph Sunday at Woodbine in the mile and a sixteenth , a Grade 3 turf event worth $150,400.
Jockey Steven Bahen had Le Cinquieme Essai alone in a stalking position through the turn, as Burst of Fire led through fractions of :23.83, :46.75 and 1:10.76 seconds. Le Cinquieme Essai drew abreast of Burst of Fire inside the eighth pole, and got home on top by a half-length, in a final time of 1:40.79.
ALBANY, Calif. - Bonfante ($8.20) survived a claim of foul by runner-up Flying Supercon's jockey as he scored a 1 1/2-length victory in the $75,000 at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.
Bonfante sat behind Flying Supercon down the backstretch and made his move as the field of six Cal-breds turned for home in the six-furlong race. He came in a bit and appeared to brush with Flying Supercon before the eighth pole.
He pulled away in the lane, winning in 1:08.33. Flying Supercon held second, beating Kool Suggestion by three-quarters of a length.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Osidy scored his first stakes win in Saturday's $109,900 at Hollywood Park, and did so in a manner that suggests the colt has plenty of room for improvement.
Sent off favored, Osidy ($4.80) rallied from sixth to win the one-mile turf race by a head over 18-1 Willow o Wisp. Osidy needed the entire stretch to reach the front under Alex Solis, and got to the front after considerable urging.
"He's got some learning to do," trainer Richard Mandella said. "He had to maneuver between horses. It was his first time around two turns."
ELMONT, N.Y. - Despite running the two best horses in the race, trainers Bobby Frankel and Todd Pletcher enter Monday's Grade 1 with a bit of trepidation.
Frankel admits to being "a little nervous" bringing defending Horse of the Year Ghostzapper back in the Met Mile at Belmont Park, annually one of the most competitive races run on this circuit. Ghostzapper, who is 4 for 4 at Belmont, has not been out since winning the Breeders' Cup Classic seven months ago.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Sweet Catomine is retired. Summerly is in quarantine. Sis City is on vacation until midsummer. Despite the absence of that trio of 3-year-old fillies, next Saturday's Grade 1 Acorn at Belmont Park is attracting a strong field.
ELMONT, N.Y. - As New York Racing Association officials heightened their surveillance of the Belmont Park backside for further evidence of strangles, the horse suspected of having the infectious disease has been moved from Belmont to the equine hospital at Cornell University.
Lady Libby, trained by Steve Kappes, was shipped to Cornell on Saturday morning for further evaluation while veterinarians wait on the results of her test for strangles. Lady Libby displayed classic symptoms of the disease on Friday. The horse had suffered from a fever, and her lymph nodes were swollen.
Molto Vita seized the lead down the backstretch, then drove to a convincing 1 1/2-length victory Saturday in the second running of the $107,200 at Churchill Downs.
Ridden by the meet's leading rider, Rafael Bejarano, Molto Vita returned $4.60 as the favorite after finishing six furlongs in 1:09.50 over a fast track. Dallas Stewart trains Molto Vita, a 5-year-old mare whose most notable victory came in the Grade 3 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes last fall at Keeneland.
