SKIP AWAY STUNNED BY MT. SASSAFRAS.Byline: Associated Press Mt. Sassafras sassafras: see laurel. sassafras North American tree (Sassafras albidum) of the laurel family. The aromatic leaf, bark, and root are used as a flavouring, as a traditional home medicine, and as a tea. upset heavily favored Skip Away, pulling away at the sixteenth pole to win by 2-1/4 lengths Saturday in the $500,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap The Gulfstream Park Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Gulfstream Park each year. The race is open to horses age four and up, willing to race one and three-sixteenths miles on the dirt. A Grade II event, it offers a purse of $350,000. . Skip Away, last year's champion 3-year-old, finished second by a neck over Tejano Run. Suave Prospect was fourth in a field of seven racing 1-1/4 miles. Mt. Sassafras, a Canadian-bred 5-year-old ridden by Jerry Bailey, won in 2:02 1/5 as a 10-1 shot. The loss was the second in a row for Skip Away, who won $2.6 million last year and beat Horse of the Year Cigar in the Jockey Club Gold Cup The Jockey Club Gold Cup, established in 1919, is a prestigious thoroughbred flat race open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up. It is typically the main event of the fall meeting at Belmont Park, just as the Belmont Stakes is of the spring meeting and the Travers . Skip Away finished second in his debut as a 4-year-old to Formal Gold in the Donn Handicap on Feb. 8. Mt. Sassafras acted up in the gate, broke badly and finished sixth in that race, 14-1/2 lengths back. Bailey will be aboard Marlin today in the Santa Anita Handicap The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in the late winter at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Grade I race for horses three years old and up, and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during . |
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