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Frontrunning Raymundos Secret Just Lasts In John C. Mabee

Going straight to the front at the outset under Flavien Prat and setting all the fractions, Sierra Racing and Sterling Stables LLC's Raymundos Secret reached the wire just in time to hold off a fast-finishing Lady Prancealot and Umberto Rispoli to win Saturday's Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes at Del Mar near San Diego, Calif., by a nose.

Catch the Eye was third and Zee Drop fourth in the field of eight fillies and mares going nine furlongs on turf. Raymundos Secret was timed in 1:48.60 on firm turf after fractions of :24.87, :48.60, 1:12.52 and 1:36.16 were posted.

Raymundos Secret was favored at 7-5 with Lady Prancealot the 8-5 second choice.

The victory was Prat's fourth of the afternoon, giving him 46 for the summer session in 25 days of racing. Rispoli, who was blanked on Saturday, has 45.

“The plan wasn't necessarily to go to the front; just to break her out of there and see what happens,” said Prat. “She broke super sharp and we were on the lead. From there I just tried to get her to relax and to slow it down as best as I could. Then when we went for home, she gave me a good kick. She just had enough at the end.”

The Mabee was Prat's 13th stakes success of the meet, equaling the record number set by Rafael Bejarano in 2012.

“It's a good accomplishment. I'm glad for it. I'm hoping I've got one or two more before we're done here, too.”

Trained by Phil D'Amato, Raymundos Secret earned her first black-type win in the Mabee and fifth win overall in seven starts. Bred in Florida by Edward Seltzer, Beverly Anderson and Joseph Barbazon, Raymundos Secret was produced from the Greatness mare, Paulette Caveat.

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Fourth Win In Vigil Pushes Canadian Icon Pink Lloyd Over $2-Million Mark

Canadian racing icon Pink Lloyd took the biggest slice of the pie and boosted his cash stash past the $2-million mark in career earnings with another winning effort in Grade 3 Vigil Stakes on Saturday, Sept. 5 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Trained by Canadian Hall of Famer Robert Tiller, Pink Lloyd nearly matched his own track record on the Tapeta, sprinting six furlongs in 1:08.06. He came within one hundredth of a second of his mark while carrying 128 pounds.

Track announcer Robert Geller called it one of the best starts of his career as the popular chestnut gelding broke well from post seven with a head in front early. He settled into stalking position behind a quartet of early leavers before making his winning move on the final turn for Rafael Hernandez.

Pink Lloyd rallied home a clear winner with Olympic Runner, who finished a neck back in their last Grade 3 Bold Venture match-up, closing from the backfield for the runner-up honors once again.

City Boy, among the dueling front-runners through early fractions of :21.97 and :43.92, finished 1-1/2 lengths behind in third and just a half-length in front of Eskiminzin, Malibu Secret, Blind Ambition and Roaring Forties. Silent Jimmie and Not So Quiet completed the order of finish.

“He's so dear to my heart. We believe in him so much,” said Tiller, though admitting he was the most nervous he's been in a long time today. “He's going to get two months off now and he deserves it. We'll be back in the fall.”

Bred in Ontario by John Carey and owned by Entourage Stable, the gelded son of Old Forester is now four-for-four during his eight-year-old campaign and has won 26 of his 31 starts lifetime.

He previously reeled off 11 consecutive victories from 2017 into 2018, and is currently riding a 10-race win streak following a perfect season in 2019.

The newly minted double millionaire boasts a record four Vigil Stakes victories, six Sovereign Awards, and a total of 23 stakes wins among his accomplishments. Taking the $90,000 winner's share of the purse, he now has $2,066,330 in career earnings.

“I don't think you're going to find another horse like him again. He's a Canadian racing icon,” said Tiller. “This is a true, true champion. And I've said it many times, I just love him to death and he just keeps amazing me.”

Send postward as the 4-5 favourite, Pink Lloyd paid $3.80 to win.

Live Thoroughbred racing continues this long weekend at Woodbine, with post time set for 1 p.m. on both Sunday and Labour Day Monday.

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Authentic Defeats Tiz the Law to Give Baffert Milestone Kentucky Derby Victory

In a year like no other, it perhaps should not have been surprising that the 146thKentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve was marked by stunning twists and turns as Authentic upset Tiz the Law on Saturday to give Hall of Fame trainer

Protests Not An Issue On An Unusual Derby Day

“I don’t see no riot here, so why are you in riot gear?”

That was the chant that the social justice group Until Freedom chanted at the Louisville police force as they marched outside of Churchill Downs on Saturday, but despite the presence of opposing groups brandishing weapons and carrying American flags and Trump 2020 signs, as they said, there was no riot here.

The clashes many feared would materialize on Derby Day failed to do so. With opposing groups lining up on opposing sides of the track with police in riot gear lining up behind a fence opposite each group, there was little opportunity for interaction.

Just before the race, protesters chanted and waved noisemakers and chanted Breonna Taylor’s name, according to the Louisville radio station WFPL, which broadcast updates throughout the day.

The police were out early and in force outside of Churchill Downs, concentrating their resources on the area despite wider-spread protesters in town earlier in the day. Minor confrontations between groups on either side of the issue began early, according to WLKY, Louisville’s CBS affiliate, which reported that first to arrive downtown was a group calling themselves “patriots” of a right-wing militia led by a man calling himself Angry Viking and chanting pro-police slogans. USA Today reported that a group of “predominantly white men, women and children” clad in helmets and face masks carrying firearms marched through downtown. While police separated the groups, the situation didn’t escalate beyond that.

By 4:30, according to WLKY, Until Freedom-a social justice group with the goal of addressing systemic and racial injustice–was holding a peaceful rally at South Central Park before marching to Churchill Downs. Police kept the pro-Trump groups far away.

Louisville has been one of the focal spots for the Black Lives Matter protests which ensued after the death of George Floyd, and protestors had hoped to benefit from the national focus on the Derby to promote their message of racial injustice. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed in Minneapolis May 25 after police office Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes while Floyd begged for his life and said he couldn’t breathe.

The protests over Floyd’s killing inspired similar ones in Louisville, where Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman and Louisville EMT, was killed in March when three policemen burst into her apartment in the middle of the night and opened fire, shooting her eight times. Because there was no police body camera footage of the incident, it went largely unnoticed by the national press or the racial justice movement until activists got hold of the story. While one officer was fired, the two others remain on the force while calls for their arrests continue to mount, and incidences of violence in the city have increased.

Taylor was killed just six miles from Churchill Downs, and many organizers of the protests had wanted the Derby to be suspended this year, including Louisville pastor Tim Findley. “Absolutely not,” Findley told NBC News on Saturday when asked if he felt the Derby should have been held Saturday. “The eyes of the world are on Louisville this weekend. The Derby is the perfect event to let the world know the community is not okay. People will look back and say there was a collection of people–an entire city really–that stood up and said we cannot go on with business as usual.”

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