ARCADIA, Calif. - Unlimited Value scored a front-running victory in Saturday's $150,000 California Cup Sprint in a performance that was aided by the fatal breakdown of his early pace rival, Rio Oro.
Unlimited Value and Rio Oro sped through a 21.28-second opening quarter-mile, but as the field neared the midway point on the far turn, Rio Oro, racing along the rail, broke his left front leg.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Heavily favored Sailinwithcaptain ($2.60) was passed in the upper stretch by Timely Jeff but came back on to win the $80,500 Don B Stakes by a neck at Bay Meadows on Saturday, covering six furlongs in 1:11.01.
Sailinwithcaptain, now 2 for 2 in his career for trainer Bob Baffert and owner Mike Pegram, broke alertly and made the lead on his own after Timely Jeff - who ran a 43.80-second opening half-mile in his debut in the Ron and Jessman Cloud Memorial on Oct. 5 at Fresno - did not break well.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Canadian shipper Added Edge remained undefeated in four starts by winning Saturday's $109,700 Nashua Stakes for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct.
Under jockey Patrick Husbands, Added Edge was a 2 1/4-length winner over Outer Reef. Boston Bull, the 4-5 favorite, finished third, a half-length behind Outer Reef.
Roaring Fever, Wacky for Love, Formidable Fox, and Areyouamused completed the order of finish in the Grade 3 Nashua. Pretty Wild was scratched in the morning with an injury.
Red Bullet delivered the kind of performance his connections wanted to see in his return to the races after a long layoff Saturday at Delaware Park.
Making his first start since late March, Red Bullet ($5.40) came flying through the stretch to draw off to a 2 1/2-length victory in the $61,100 Foggy Road Stakes.
New York-based trainer Joe Orseno shipped Red Bullet to Delaware for the six-furlong stakes in order to give the 2000 Preakness winner a prep for the Nov. 30 Cigar Mile.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Pretty Wild, who would have been among the favorites for Saturday's $100,000-added Nashua at Aqueduct, was scratched after a bone chip was discovered in his right knee.
Pretty Wild, who is trained by Stanley Hough, will undergo surgery on Sunday or Monday at Dr. Stephen Selway's veterinary clinic at Belmont Park.
Hough, who said that Pretty Wild was not in any discomfort, indicated the 2-year-old colt will need 90 days to recover from the surgery.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Arco's Gold dead-heated for the win with favored Mobil in Saturday's $250,000 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine, but was awarded first money by disqualification, because Mobil's rider struck him with his whip in the stretch run.
Mobil led the way under Todd Kabel in the nine-furlong event for 2-year-olds, while being pressed by Snake Pit through quick fractions. Mobil kicked clear heading into the far turn, as Arco's Gold loomed into contention under Constant Montpellier.
STICKNEY, Ill. - The Canadian shipper Kimberlite Pipe led from start to finish Saturday in the Robert Carey Memorial Handicap, scoring his first graded stakes win since the 1999 Louisiana Derby.
On a turf course that has favored speed the first two days of the Hawthorne meet, Kimberlite Pipe sped to a clear early advantage under jockey Chris Emigh. He took a 1 1/2-length lead into the stretch and held on by a half-length over a group of closers headed by Aslaaf, who had a half-length on the local longshot Major Omansky.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - For four races, Belle of Perintown had trainer Eddie Kenneally scratching his head. The filly was unable to win a maiden race during that time, but Saturday, fresh off her first career win, she posted her second straight victory when she surged past Star of Atticus and favored Souris in the final yards of the $111,100 Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs.
"She was unfortunate, but now she's rolling," a jubilant Kenneally said after Belle of Perintown, ridden by Mark Guidry, gave him his first Churchill stakes win.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - With an electrifying late move on the rail, Dawn of the Condor flew home a two-length winner of Saturday's $150,000 at Aqueduct.
North East Bound, the 5-2 favorite, set soft fractions, but came up empty in the final furlong and finished sixth in the nine-horse field of turf runners.
Serial Bride was second in the Grade 2 Knickerbocker, a neck in front of the third-place finisher, Polish Miner.
MIAMI - Best of the Rest, who returned from a three-month layoff to finish second behind Pay the Preacher in the Spend a Buck Handicap, and the top 3-year-old filly Cellars Shiraz topped a busy work tab Saturday morning at Calder.
Best of the Rest worked a mile in 1:44.40 for trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. as he prepares for a possible rematch with Pay the Preacher in the $200,000 Carl G. Rose Classic, co-feature on the $1 million Florida Millions card on Nov. 16.
Pay the Preacher would have to be supplemented to the Rose at a cost of $7,500.
