For many years, the Breeders’ Cup Classic and the Dubai World Cup reigned as the two richest dirt races in the world. Winning both has been the mark of a great horse; only five horses have achieved the feat, and three of them are members of Racing’s Hall of Fame, including the amazing international traveler Invasor.
Month: July 2023
Superfecta Phil: Gold Phoenix Leads 1-2-3-4 D’Amato Sweep In Eddie Read
Trainer Phil D'Amato is always good when it comes to a stakes race on the grass, especially at Del Mar. But the five-time shore training champ outdid himself Sunday at turf and surf central when he saddled the first four finishers in the $252,000 Eddie Read Stakes, a Grade 2 turfer at 1 1/8 miles.
Leading the D'Amato parade was a chestnut gelding named Gold Phoenix, who is owned by the partnership of Little Red Feather Racing, Sterling Stables and Marsha Naify. Hot-riding Hector Berrios was aboard the Irish-bred son of Belardo as he cruised to a three-quarter length triumph in 1:48.62. The winner paid $11 and picked up a first-place purse of $150,000 to push his career earnings to $837,757.
Next in line came Little Red Feather, Madaket Stables and Old Bones Racing Stable's Balnikhov, who had a half length on Rockingham Ranch's Masteroffoxhounds. The fourth D'Amato runner was the race favorite, Agave Racing Stable and Sam-Son Farm's veteran Count Again, who went off at 9-5 and finished two and a quarter lengths behind the winner.
Del Mar veteran observers could not recall another occurrence at the track where one trainer saddled the first four finishers in a major stakes race.
This was D'Amato's fourth victory in the Eddie Read. It was the first for Berrios.
D'Amato took over the lead in the trainers' race with three wins on the day to total nine firsts through the first seven days of racing. Berrios also won three races on the afternoon and moved into a tie with Juan Hernandez with 11 victories apiece. Hernandez also tripled on Sunday.
In the track's popular Pick Six, which was run under “mandatory payout” conditions, bettors poured in $3,057,176 into the pool that pushed the total prize to $3,441,665.
When the 11th and final race on the day was run, the numbers said there were 171 winners who picked all six and each of them picked up a payout of $15,915.
Racing will resume at Del Mar on Thursday with a first post of 2 p.m.
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$193,772 Pick 6 Carryover On Wednesday At Saratoga
Wednesday's card at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $193,772 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Sunday's 10-race card.
The $1 Pick 6 returned $1,699.50 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.
The sequence kicked off in Race 5 – an off-the-turf allowance optional claimer for fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward – when Luis Saez piloted Fannie and Freddie [No. 9, $14.80] to a third career score for trainer Al Stall, Jr.
Tom Amoss saddled Greg Tramontin's Alys Beach [No. 6, $18.60] to victory in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies in Race 6. Tyler Gaffalione piloted the daughter of Omaha Beach.
Under guidance from Jose Ortiz, Repole Stable's New York-bred Jerry the Nipper [No. 11, $10] won his sixth lifetime start for trainer Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher in Race 7 – an allowance optional claimer for 3-year-olds and upward on the Mellon turf.
Leftembehind [No. 6, $11.40], trained by Barclay Tagg and ridden by Katie Davis, graduated at seventh asking in Race 8 – a $30,000 maiden claimer going one mile on the main track for 3-year-olds and upward.
The evergreen 9-year-old Channel Maker [No. 8, $32.40], the 2020 Champion Turf Male, went gate-to-wire to spring a 15-1 upset for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott in Race 9 – the Grade 2, $250,000 Bowling Green for older horses going 11 furlongs over the inner turf.
With the carryover already triggered, the sequence concluded in Race 10 – a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight for fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward – where Gaffalione returned to the winner's circle after piloting the Phil Bauer-trained Little Prankster [No. 14, $3.50*].
Wednesday's Pick 6 will kick off in Race 5 at 3:26 p.m. Eastern and includes the $135,000 De La Rose in Race 8. First post for the 10-race card is 1:10 p.m.
Saratoga Live will present live coverage and analysis of the Saratoga Race Course summer meet on the networks of FOX Sports. For the broadcast schedule and channel finder, visit https://www.nyra.com/saratoga/racing/tv-schedule/.
NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Saratoga Race Course, and the best way to bet every race of the summer meet. Available to horse players nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.
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Gulfstream Park: Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed At $300,000 Friday
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 Gross Jackpot Pool will be guaranteed at $300,000 Friday at Gulfstream Park, where the popular multi-race wager went unsolved Sunday for the 13th racing day following a mandatory payout.
Friday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 3-8, featuring a 5½-furlong optional claiming allowance for Florida-bred older fillies and mares on Tapeta in Race 7. Fernando Abreu-trained Gitana holds a wide edge on experience over her seven rivals in the race for non-winners of a race other than maiden, claiming or starter and for horses entered for a claiming price of $20,000. The 6-year-old mare has been first or second in 15 of her 33 career starts.
A mile-and-70-yard maiden special weight event for older fillies and mares on Tapeta precedes the feature. The seven-horse field includes a Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained first-time starter, Applause. The 3-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo, bred and owned by Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds LLC, has been training forwardly at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County. Kara and Colleen, a Joseph stablemate, enters the race after finishing second and third on Tapeta in her two most recent starts. Christopher Duncan-trained To Thyself B True is expected to receive attention at the betting windows off her third-place finish in the Powder Break Stakes in her last start.
The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
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