ROAR ROARS OFF TO JIM BEAM WIN.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Roar roared and Victory Speech flopped in the $600,000 Jim Beam Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey, distilled in Clermont, Kentucky. This brand of whiskey has been distilled since 1795. The Jim Beam brand is owned by Beam Global Spirits & Wine, which is in turn owned by holding company Fortune Brands. Stakes on 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. Roar, the Shug McGaughey-trained second choice at 5-2, stayed just off the pace early, drew even with 35-1 shot Ensign Ray at the top of the turn and drew off in the stretch to win by 1-1/2 lengths. ``The biggest thing I'm pleased with is, condition-wise and looks-wise, he's going forward and he has been all winter,'' said McGaughey, who had Roar's breathing problem corrected with palate surgery in October. ``Early in the winter I wasn't really pleased with the way he looked. He trained well, but his physical appearance wasn't what I wanted. About the last month he's come forward, forward, forward.'' Victory Speech, the even-money favorite trained by 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. , finished four lengths back of Ensign Ray without ever mounting a serious challenge. Smithfield out of Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. : Smithfield, considered a top contender for the $1 million Santa Anita Derby, fractured a sesamoid sesamoid /ses·a·moid/ (ses´ah-moid) 1. denoting a small nodular bone embedded in a tendon or joint capsule. 2. a sesamoid bone. ses·a·moid adj. 1. bone in his left front foot during a workout and will miss the race next Saturday. Trainer Charlie Whittingham, who co-owns the colt, said Smithfield is likely to be sidelined six months to a year. ``He was going easy, the track had just been harrowed and everything seemed to be fine,'' Whittingham said. ``He must have just taken a bad step. It's unfortunate, but it happens.'' Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. Handicap for the third consecutive year by a half-length over Just Java at Santa Anita. Ridden by Kent Desormeaux, favored Del Mar Dennis covered 1-1/8 miles in 1:48 1/5 and paid $4.60, $3 and $2.40. Del Mar Dennis joined John Henry as the only horse to win the same stakes event three straight years at Santa Anita. John Henry won the Oak Tree meetings' Oak Tree Invitational from 1980 to 1982. Romano Gucci wins Gotham: Romano Gucci led virtually every step of the way under Julie Krone to beat favored Tiger Talk by a half-length in the $200,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct. The winner's clocking of 1:34 2/5 for a mile over the muddy track was the sixth-fastest in Gotham history and kept Romano Gucci unbeaten in four career starts. Although the Gotham is considered one of New York's stepping stones to the Triple Crown races, it will not be that this year. Romano Gucci, a Maryland-bred colt by Aaron's Concorde from the Dancing Count mare, Short Encounter, is not nominated to run in the Kentucky Derby. |
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