ROUNDUP: STEINBRENNER HORSE HITS A HOMER.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Yankees owner George Steinbrenner George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American billionaire businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. is on his way to the Kentucky Derby after a dazzling, 17 1/2-length victory by Bellamy Road in the $750,000 Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct racetrack on Saturday. Taking the lead at the start under jockey Javier Castellano, the big bay colt gave trainer Nick Zito yet another 3-year-old for the Derby on May 7. The colt owned by Steinbrenner's Kinsman kins·man n. 1. A male relative. 2. A man sharing the same racial, cultural, or national background as another. kinsman Noun pl -men Stable may be the one to beat in the first leg of the Triple Crown. Steinbrenner was in Baltimore on Saturday, watching the Yankees beat the Orioles. Bellamy Road ($7.10), who captured his only other start this year by 15 3/4 lengths in an allowance race at Gulfstream Park, won in Wood-record- tying time of 1:47.16 for 1 1/8 miles. Survivalist sur·viv·al·ist n. One who has personal or group survival as a primary goal in the face of difficulty, opposition, and especially the threat of natural catastrophe, nuclear war, or societal collapse. Noun 1. finished second, Scrappy T third. The son of Concerto joins four other Zito possibilities for the Derby: High Fly and Noble Causeway, the 1-2 finishers in last week's Florida Derby, and Sun King and Andromeda's Hero. --Go east, young man: Greeley's Galaxy ($5.60), trained at Santa Anita by Warren and Glen Stute, won the $500,000 Illinois Derby at Hawthorne racetrack by 10 lengths with jockey Kent Desormeaux. --Singletary wins: Singletary returned to form in the Arcadia Handicap as the Breeders' Cup Mile champ tackled the front-runner on the turn and won the 1-mile turf race on the 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. undercard un·der·card n. The event or events coming before and supporting the main event, as of boxing matches. . --In Arkansas: D. Wayne Lukas-trained Grand Reward won the $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap, and Dream of Summer and jockey Patrick Valenzuela won the Apple Blossom Handicap The Apple Blossom Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares age three and up run each year during the Racing Festival of the South at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The race is run over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. at Oaklawn Park. |
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