Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Carson Hollow easy Floral Park winner

ELMONT, N.Y. - Carson Hollow, the 1-2 favorite, dominated Saturday's $103,400 Floral Park Handicap at Belmont Park and is now headed for a date with the boys in the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Arlington Park on Oct. 26.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Pure Prize gets perfect trip

FLORENCE, Ky. - Pure Prize got a perfect trip from just off the pace and held off favored Dollar Bill to post his first career stakes victory Saturday in the $400,000 , centerpiece race of the ninth annual Kentucky Cup at Turfway Park.

Ridden by Mike Smith, who had won two of the four earlier Kentucky Cup races, Pure Prize surged past front-runners Abreeze and There's Zealous and held on to win the

Grade 2 Classic by three-quarters of a length. Bred and owned by the Phipps Stable, he returned $16.80 after finishing 1 1/8 miles in 1:51.24 over a fast track.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Horse-for-course Trip wins Turfway B.C.

FLORENCE, Ky. - Trip stayed perfect at Turfway Park with an easy win as the favorite in the secondary feature of Saturday's Kentucky Cup card, the $200,000 Turfway Breeders' Cup.

Trip, a 5-year-old Claiborne Farm homebred, has won four times in as many starts at Turfway, all of them stakes. A Lord at War mare now trained by Shug McGaughey, Trip won the Bourbonette as a 3-year-old, then the Fairway Fun and the Turfway B.C. last year. At other tracks, Trip, now an earner of $888,773, has won 7 of 23 starts.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Little Treasure wins on the lead

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - As hot as trainer Laura de Seroux has been in graded stakes races this year, Rene Douglas has been even hotter riding stakes winners at Arlington. Put those two together with the most talented filly in Arlington's Pucker Up Stakes, Little Treasure, and you had a sure winner.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Spring Winds favored despite weight

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Spring Winds will have to spot his six rivals from two to 12 pounds when he heads a field of seven in the $45,000 Mackinac Handicap at Great Lakes Downs on Monday evening. The Mackinac, at 1 1/16 miles for 3-year-old statebred colts and geldings, is the sixth of nine races.

Spring Winds will carry 123 pounds on the strength of his wins in this meet's Lansing and Dowling Stakes. In between those races, he was fourth in the Spartan Stakes. Accountable Guy, the winner of the Spartan, and runner-up Equi Power will again face Spring Winds in the Mackinac.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Meadowlands: Patrol on the beat

Patrol rebounded from a streak-ending loss at Saratoga and easily won the $100,000 Rushing Man Stakes Friday at The Meadowlands, in East Rutherford, N.J.

Patrol, who had won three straight before finishing third in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Handicap at Saratoga last month, led all the way in the Rushing Man and won by 2 3/4 lengths under Jerry Bailey. Owned by Claiborne Farm and trained by Bill Mott, Patrol covered the 1 1/16 miles on turf in 1:39.60, .2 seconds off the track record. He paid $3.20 in a field of eight 3-year-olds.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Pimlico: Miss Lodi rallies

Miss Lodi ran down For Rubies in the final furlong to win the $100,000 Safely Kept Stakes at Pimlico.

For Rubies opened up a 1 1/2-length lead in midstretch but tired late, saving second by a nose over favored Wilzada in the Grade 3, six-furlong race for fillies and mares.

Miss Lodi, owned by Robert Colton and Mast Thoroughbred and trained by Tom Amoss, returned $10.20. She ran the distance in 1:11.20 under Ryan Fogelsonger.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Woodbine: Early Wisdom hits it big

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Outsider Early Wisdom lit up the tote board with a $69.90 payoff, when he won the Grade 3 Col. R.S. McLaughlin Handicap at Woodbine on Saturday.

Early Wisdom vied up front through moderate fractions with Mark One and New York shipper Center in the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds. Center dropped out of contention on the far turn, and Early Wisdom began to edge away from Mark One inside the three-sixteenths pole to score by 2 1/4 lengths, in a time of 1:52.19 seconds.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Gemma's Star wins third straight in Needles Stakes

MIAMI - Gemma's Star continued his climb to the top of the local 3-year-old division with a convincing 2 3/4-length victory over Susie's Poker in Saturday's $50,000 Needles Stakes at Calder. The Needles was originally scheduled to be run on the turf but was switched to the main track because of several days of rain in the area.

Gemma's Star got a perfect rail-skimming ride from Manny Aguilar, who recorded his third victory of the day in the Needles. The winner paid $6 after covering 1 1/16 miles in 1:46.60 seconds over a fast track.

Sat, 09/14/2002 - 00:00

Arlington's big Cup transformation

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Banks of seats are being added at Arlington Park to make room for the 35,000 extra fans expected on Breeders? Cup Day, Oct. 26. The extra seats will make up 75 percent of the track?s seating on Cup day.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Breeders' Cup officials got a private helicopter tour from Dick Duchossois and made a hands-on inspection Thursday of Arlington Park's Breeders' Cup makeover. What they saw was a project in full swing and on schedule, with sets of stadium seats and the skeletons of vast tents springing up around the perimeter of Arlington's 1 1/8-mile main track.