September, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

$251,589 Carryover In Sunday’s Pick 6 At Saratoga

Sunday's card at Saratoga Race Course will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $251,589 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Saturday's 12-race program.

The $1 Pick 6 returned $27,954 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.

The sequence kicked off in Race 7 with the Manny Franco-piloted General Partner [No. 3, $9.30] graduating impressively at second asking for four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown in a seven-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-olds.

Race 8 saw the New York-bred Thin White Duke [No. 3, $20.40] run down his rivals in deep stretch under Jose Lezcano to score against open company in the $150,000 Harvey Pack, a 5 1/2-furlong Mellon turf sprint for older horses, for trainer David Donk. The upsets continued in Race 9 when the Dana Saul-trained Missing Fortune [No. 3, $35.60] cruised to a six-furlong state-bred filly and mare allowance score under Keiber Coa

The biggest price in the sequence came in Race 10, a one-mile inner turf allowance for 3-year-olds and up, when the Robertino Diodoro trainee Drakon [No. 13, $44] prevailed over Fredo in a thrilling photo finish under Ricardo Santana, Jr., one race before another photo finish in the day's featured Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup [Race 11] that saw Bright Future [No. 8, $9.50] notch his first stakes triumph for Hall of Famers Todd Pletcher and Javier Castellano

With just two horses covered in the final leg [Race 12], the Eddie Persaud-trained Dream Road [No. 3, $25.60] triggered the carryover with win in a state-bred 1 1/16-mile maiden claimer for fillies and mares over the turf with Ruben Silvera in the irons.

Sunday's Pick 6 will kick off in Race 5 at 2:52 p.m. Eastern. First post for the 10-race card, which features the Grade 1 Spinaway in Race 9, is 12:40 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/.

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Gold Phoenix Secures Breeders’ Cup Turf Spot With Del Mar Handicap Victory

Irish-bred Gold Phoenix successfully defended his title in the Grade 2, $300,000 Del Mar Handicap presented by the Japan Racing Association on Saturday at Del Mar, rallying from 14 lengths off the pace under Juan Hernandez to win by 1 1/4 lengths as the 5-2 favorite.

Nineeleventurbo won a three-horse photo finish for second, a nose in front of Cash Equity, with Missed the Cut another nose back in fourth. They were followed by Planetario, Cathkin Peak, Offlee Naughty, None Above the Law, Win the Day, pacesetter Crosby Beach, and Azul Coast.

Gold Phoenix, who won the G2 Eddie Read at the seaside track on July 30, covered 1 3/8 miles in 2:15.34 and paid $7.00 to win. He also secured a fees-paid berth in the G1 Breeders' Cup Turf as part of the Breeders' Cup Win and You're In Challenge Series.

A 5-year-old gelding by Belardo, Gold Phoenix is trained by Phil D'Amato for Little Red Feather Racing, Sterling Stables, and Marsha Naify.

Breaking from the 10 post in the three-turn race, Gold Phoenix settled well off the pace as longshot Crosby Beach showed the way under Geovanni Franco, setting moderate fractions of :24.60, :48.74, 1:13.80, and 1:39.28. Hernandez moved Gold Phoenix into contention rounding the far turn and swung wide into the stretch as Nineeleventurbo took over from the pacesetter. Gold Phoenix had three horses to beat at the furlong pole and moved to the front to win comfortably.

“Plan A was to save ground,” said Hernandez, Del Mar's leading rider. “My horse relaxed really well today and was so patient. This time I go outside because I had a lot of horses in front of me. So I say I want to swing out and see if I can find something. If not I can go back inside. But I was able to find some space to come through, and after that he flew for home. He is getting better every race. Last time he was a little closer and he was able to keep up that space and able to win that race. I just have to wait and he loved the distance.”

“He was loaded and looked like he had the perfect split,” said D'Amato, who is in a tight race for leading trainer with Bob Baffert and Doug O'Neill. “I just love how confident Juan (Hernandez) rode him. Did a great job. Juan and I have had good luck over the years. I haven't used him much at the meet but I used him at the right time.”

After winning last year's Del Mar Handicap, Gold Phoenix wound up 10th behind winner Rebel's Romance in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland. Saturday's victory was his sixth in 15 lifetime starts.

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Du Jour Scores Powerful Del Mar Mile Win

Jill Baffert and Debbie Lanni's Du Jour poured it on in the stretch and kicked clear to a dominating victory Saturday in the $300,000 Del Mar Mile (G2).

With Flavien Prat riding for trainer Bob Baffert, the 5-year-old Temple City gelding easily cruised past overmatched rivals and romped across the finish line 2¼ lengths to the good of Grade 1 winner and favorite Exaulted, whose win streak was halted at four.

Du Jour added a second graded stakes win to his record following his 2021 American Turf (G2) score at Churchill Downs. He won the Wickerr July 23 during Del Mar's opening weekend.

Du Jour returned $10.20 for the victory after completing the one-mile trip in 1:33.82 on firm turf.

Visitant was third, a head behind Exaulted in the field of 10.

Du Jour improved his overall record to 5-3-2 from 15 starts. The $180,000 winner's share of the Del Mar Mile purse increased his lifetime earnings to $918,220.

Bred in Kentucky by Woods Edge Farm, Du Jour was produced by the Bernardini mare Guiltless. He was a $280,000 purchase by Donato Lanni, agent, at the 2020 OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, where Off the Hook consigned him.

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Colonial Downs: Karamanos, Chambeau, Determined Kingdom Shine On Commonwealth Champions Day

The best and brightest horses representing the Virginia breeding and certified program were on display Saturday in Commonwealth Champions Day at Colonial Downs.

Five stakes for varying ages and over multiple distances were presented as part of a 10-race card at the New Kent track. Among the top performances were a stakes riding double for jockey Horacio Karamanos and a second stakes win of the meet for Chambeau and Determined Kingdom.

In the first of the day's stakes events, Reilly McDonald's Passion Play ($6.20) took the lead on the far turn and was relentless in holding off the late challenges from DARRS Inc.'s Palio and Jeremy Brooks' Wow Whata Summer to prevail by a neck in the $131,500 Bert Allen Stakes. Horacio Karamanos was aboard the Virginia-bred Mary Eppler-trained son of Hold Me Back who covered the 1-1/16 miles over firm turf in 1:43.67. The win was the sixth in 29 starts for the 7-year-old gelding who earned $90,000 for the effort to boost his lifetime bankroll to $327,497.

“This horse deserved to win,” said Karamanos, who has ridden Passion Play in nine of his last 10 starts including a win in the 2021 edition of this race. “He always tries. His last race (a seventh-place finish) was so tough for him. Today, I just wanted him to break ok and see how the race unfolded. After a couple others went to the front, I sat back a bit and relaxed until the eighth pole. When I asked him, he fired so nicely all the way to the wire.”

O'Sullivan Farms' Unruly Julie ($30.40) changed tactics and ran to a front-stepping, half-length tally over Naval Empire in the $105,500 Nellie Mae Cox Stakes under jockey Wesley Ho. The Javier Contreras-trained The Factor mare ran the 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.25 to score her seventh victory from 36 trips to the post. She added $60,000 to her lifetime earnings which now stand at $225,819.

“She's been training the best she ever has. She ran in this race last year (finishing second). Coming into this race she's really been a different horse. Honestly, she took me to the lead,” Ho said when asked about the change in running style. “She was so keen in taking the lead, she pulled me there. I just tried to save as much as I could for the stretch run and she still gave me everything she had. I'd have rather been mid-pack but she had other ideas today.”

D Hatman Thoroughbreds and Kingdom Bloodstock, Inc.'s Determined Kingdom ($3.60) improved from a sixth-place finish in the 2022 edition of the Meadow Stable Stakes to notch a wire-to-wire neck victory as the 4-5 favorite in the $130,000 2023 renewal of the 5½-furlong dash. Victor Carrasco rode the gelded son of Animal Kingdom for trainer and co-owner Phil Schoenthal who sprinted the distance in 1:02.08.

“He's certainly taken a step forward as a 4-year-old,” Schoenthal said. “He's a lot keener horse. It's a beautiful thing to have a Virginia-bred who loves the grass at Colonial. We'll give him a couple of starts in the fall and then turn him out on the farm like we do with all our grass horses. As long he's doing good we'll make this a regular stop every year.”

The Meadow Stable was the sixth win in 18 starts for Determined Kingdom, who previously won the Punch Line in July at Colonial Downs. The $90,000 winner's share Saturday elevated his earnings to $442,189.

Bird Mobberly LLC's Low Mileage ($8.40) rallied along the rail to take command midstretch and draw off to a 3¼-length victory in the $125,000 Jamestown Stakes for Virginia-bred/sired 2-year-olds. Jevian Toledo was aboard the John Salzman trainee who recorded his first stakes tally and second win in four starts overall. The daughter of Mineshaft covered the 5½-furlongs in 1:04.22 and earned $75,000 for the score to push her bankroll to $121,500.

Wrapping up the stakes action was the $130,000 Camptown Stakes, which was taken by Sam English II's Chambeau ($4.60), a 6-year-old Karakontie mare who picked up her third win of the season after capturing the Tyson Gilpin/Glenn Petty Stakes in July and an allowance race last week.

“I wasn't as confident today as I was last week,” English said. “We only started her (for the first time) as a 5-year-old, and she's only run eight times in her life. She's a special horse.”

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