60-1 SHOT WINS KENTUCKY CUP.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The duel between trainers Bob Baffert Bob Baffert (born January 13, 1953 in Nogales, Arizona) is an American horse owner and trainer. He graduated from the University of Arizona's Racetrack Management Program with a Bachelor of Science degree. and D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. failed to materialize Saturday at Turfway Park Turfway Park is an American horse racing track located in Florence, Kentucky, a part of Cincinnati, Ohio's Kentucky suburbs. It conducts live Thoroughbred horse racing during two meets per year, and offers year-round simulcast wagering from tracks across the continent. in Florence, Ky., as 60-1 long shot Da Devil won the $500,000 Kentucky Cup Classic. Da Devil, ridden by Calvin Borel, circled horses at the top of the stretch and maintained a half-length lead over Social Charter the rest of the way. Cat Thief was third, another head back. Chavez again: Artax, racing on or near the lead throughout, won the Vosburgh Handicap by 3-1/2 lengths, the fourth straight year Jorge Chavez rode the winner in the $250,000, Grade I race at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Fast Dispersal not fastest: Scratch Pad beat favored Fast Dispersal by 4-1/2 lengths in the co-featured $100,000 Brave Raj Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Calder Race Course Calder Race Course is a horse racetrack in Miami Gardens, Florida in the United States. History In the mid-1960's, real estate developer Stephen A. Calder envisioned summertime racing in Florida; in 1965, on the advice of Mr. in Miami. The winner, I say: Isaypete rallied boldly to the lead approaching the last turn and drew clear in the stretch for a four-length victory in the $100,000 Pomona Derby at Fairplex Park. Fairwell: The Fairplex season ends today with Kona Wind and jockey Matt Garcia trying to give all-time leading L.A. County Fair trainer Mel Stute his third consecutive victory in the $100,000 Ralph M. Hinds Pomona Invitational Handicap. The competition in the 1 1/8-mile race - three turns on the five-eighths-mile track - includes Washington state veteran Kid Katabatic kat·a·bat·ic adj. Of or relating to a cold flow of air traveling downward: a katabatic wind. [Greek katabatikos, pertaining to descent, from (Luis Jauregui), Bob Baffert-trained Del Mar Gray (Jose Valdivia) and recent Fairplex stakes winners Prestigious Chief (Corey Black) and Moore's Flat (Fernando Valenzuela). The Oak Tree Racing Association The Oak Tree Racing Association is an American not-for-profit corporation that exists to conduct live thoroughbred horse racing in Southern California. History In 1968, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club the operators of Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California decided to season at Santa Anita begins Wednesday. |
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