MIAMI - Saturday's $150,000 Jack Price Juvenile at Calder delivered as advertised, with the undefeated 2-year-olds Sir Oscar and Wynn Dot Comma hooking up at the head of the stretch, and Sir Oscar gradually edging clear late to win by a length following a furious stretch duel.
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LAUREL, Md. - Cuvee may have distance limitations, but owner Ron Winchell may have found another Kentucky Derby prospect on Saturday.
Tapit, a son of Pulpit, overcame a bit of rankness and rolled to a 4 3/4-length victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Laurel Futurity at Laurel Park. Polish Rifle, rallied for second by a half-length over Ghost Mountain.
The victory was the second in two starts for Tapit, who is trained by Michael Dickinson. Tapit won his maiden at Delaware Park in a two-turn, one-mile race.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Judiths Wild Rush ($11.50) stamped himself as a serious contender for the Sovereign Award as Canada's champion 2-year-old with a powerful victory in Saturday's $135,625 Display Stakes at Woodbine.
Begborrowanddeal set quick fractions of 22.93 and 46.63 seconds in the 1 1/16-mile race, as Judiths Wild Rush stalked in second under jockey Dino Luciani. Judiths Wild Rush blew by the front-runner heading into the far turn, through three-quarters in 1:11.82, and cruised home on top by 10 lengths over favored Smoocher.
CYPRESS, Calif. - Trainer Paul Jones set a single-season Quarter Horse earnings record Friday night when La Premier Fleur finished second in the seventh race at Los Alamitos. La Premier Fleur earned $1,687, pushing Jones's earnings for the year to $3,531,720.
The record had belonged to Hall of Famer Blane Schvaneveldt, who earned $3,531,572 in 1984.
"It is an honor to be in the company of Blane Schvaneveldt," Jones said.
Perty Number, who began the year running for a $4,000 claiming tag with only two career victories, has been named Finger Lakes horse of the year. The award was presented at the Finger Lakes Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association dinner.
A 5-year-old New York-bred mare, Perty Number won only two of her first 17 career starts. Claimed for $4,000 on May 18, Perty Number posted six wins and six seconds in 12 starts this year. She won her first two starts against $10,000 claimers and went on to win four more races against statebred and open allowance competition.
MIAMI - One couldn't blame trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. for getting just a little emotional after leading Best of the Rest into the winner's circle following his 1 1/4-length victory over Tour of the Cat in defense of his title in Saturday's $200,000 Carl G. Rose Classic.
The Rose marked Best of the Rest's first start since his owner-breeder and Plesa's close friend, Bernie Oxenberg, died two weeks earlier.
MIAMI - After winning her previous two starts by a combined 43 lengths, Chatter Chatter had to work a little harder on Saturday to take a two-length victory over Usual Manner in the $150,000 Joe O'Farrell Juvenile Fillies. The O'Farrell was part of the undercard on the $1 million Florida Million Day program at Calder.
Chatter Chatter gave jockey Jerry Bailey his 67th stakes win of the season, leaving him one shy of the single season mark of 68, set by Mike Smith in 1994.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Spice Island ran her winning streak to three and notched her first graded stakes victory in Saturday's 1 1/2-mile, Grade 2 at Aqueduct.
Ridden by Victor Carrero, Spice Island tracked the front-runners for most of the three-turn race and then ran down favored Volga in the last 100 yards to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Spice Island was the fourth choice in the 11-horse field and paid $16 to win. After setting most of the pace, Banyu Dewi was third, four lengths behind Spice Island.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Ben Cecil thought it was worth sending Hoh Buzzard all the way from California for the Mrs. Revere Stakes, although "we were going to look like idiots if she didn't run any good," said Cecil.
Instead, Cecil and owner Gary Tanaka looked absolutely brilliant Saturday afternoon after Hoh Buzzard, ridden by Ryan Fogelsonger, led wire-to-wire in defeating 11 other 3-year-old fillies in the Grade 2, $175,650 at Churchill Downs.