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2020 Runhappy Met Mile at a Glance
Longtime fans of Thoroughbred racing no doubt have fond memories of spending their Memorial Day watching horses like Ghostzapper, Holy Bull, Forego, Arts and Letters, Buckpasser, and Kelso shine in the Metropolitan Handicap. After spending the last six years on the Belmont Stakes day program, the COVID-19 pandemic and revised racing schedules have led to the Met Mile returning to a holiday program.
Half-Brother To Rising Turf Star Mean Mary, Bye Bye Melvin Keeps To Grass In Saturday’s Kent Stakes
Otter Bend's Gufo tops the $125,000 Grade III Kent Stakes at Delaware Park this Saturday. The mile-and-an-eighth grass affair has attracted a field of eight 3-year-olds. The Kent has been carded as the ninth race with an approximate post time of 5:15 p.m.
Gufo will try to extend his current winning streak to four. The Kentucky-bred trained by Christophe Clement, started his career with a third in an Aqueduct turf maiden on November 17. The son of Declaration of War followed with three successive turf victories all at Gulfstream Park. On December 29, he broke his maiden by a nose going a mile and a sixteenth. He followed with a half-length triumph in a mile and an eighth allowance on March 27. In his most recent, he won the mile and a sixteenth $75,000 English Channel Stakes on May 2. He has career earnings of $102,510.
Trainer H. Graham Motion has entered Alex Campbell Jr.'s Bye Bye Melvin who has a career record of two wins and a third from six starts with earnings of $32,840. In his most recent, the son of Uncle Mo was unplaced in the mile and a sixteenth $400,000 Grade II Tampa Bay Derby on March 7. His previous two efforts, on the grass at Tampa Bay Downs, tell the real story of the Kentucky-bred. On December 7, he broke his maiden going a mile and a sixteenth by 8 ¼-lengths and then he followed with a ¾-length score in a one mile allowance on January 8.
“He had two solid turf victories at Tampa over the winter,” said trainer H. Graham Motion. “But, we thought he breezed really well on the dirt, so we decided to run him in the Tampa Bay Derby. After the Tampa Bay Derby, we are excited to get him back on the grass. He is a half-brother to Mean Mary, so we think he has a bright future on the grass.”
Mean Mary has a career turf record of five wins and a second including victories this year in the Grade III La Prevoyante and Grade III Orchid at Gulfstream Park and Grade II New York at Belmont Park.
$125,000 Grade III Kent Stakes
For 3-year-olds
at a mile-and-an-eighth (turf)
| # | HORSE | OWNER | TRAINER | JOCKEY | Wg | OD |
| 1 | Talking | Augustin Stable | Jonathan Thomas | Daniel Centeno | 118 | 12-1 |
| 2 | On Base | Robert LaPenta, Bridlewoo | Jonathan Thomas | TBD | 118 | 15-1 |
| 3 | Pixelate | Godolphin | Michael Stidham | Angel Suarez | 118 | 3-1 |
| 4 | Bye Bye Melvin | Alex Campbell Jr. | H. Graham Motion | Feargal Lynch | 118 | 6-1 |
| 5 | Me and Mr. C | Stonehedge | Edward Allard | Carol Cedeno | 118 | 8-1 |
| 6 | Gufo | Otter Bend Stables | Christophe Clement | Trevor McCarthy | 118 | 5/2 |
| 7 | Sunsation | Newtown Anner Stud | Kelsey Danner | Joe Bravo | 118 | 6-1 |
| 8 | Vanzzy | Daniel Ryan | Michael Pino | Mychel Sanchez | 118 | 4-1 |
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Piece Of My Heart Aims For Kentucky Oaks Points In Delaware Oaks
Wolfe Racing and Hugh Robertson's Piece of My Heart tops a field of eight in the $300,000 Grade III Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park this Saturday. The Oaks has been carded as the eighth race with an approximate post time of 4:45 p.m.
For the first time, the mile a sixteenth affair will be a points race for the Grade I Kentucky Oaks which was rescheduled to September 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Delaware Oaks will be worth 50 points to the winner, 20 points for second, 10 points for third and five for fourth.
Piece of My Heart has won her last two at Oaklawn Park. In her most recent, the Florida-bred trained by McLean Robertson posted a 1 ½-length score in the mile and a sixteenth $80,000 Gardenia Stakes on May 1. Previously, the daughter of Flat Out notched a 1-length triumpn in a one mile allowance on April 10. She has a career record of three wins, two seconds and a third from eight starts with earnings of $135,750.
She has had four workouts at Delaware Park with her most recent on June 30 when she breezed five furlongs over a fast main track in 1:00.
“She is doing real good,” said trainer McLean Robertson. “It looks like she gets over the Delaware Park surface really well. Hopefully, she will run the same as last time. It took her a little while for her, but she got awful good at Oaklawn and she is doing really good here, so we are looking forward to Saturday.”
WinStar Farm, Lindy Farms, and Madaket Stables' Comical will be seeking redemption as she finished second to Piece of My Heart in the Gardenia Stakes in her last race. Previously, the Kentucky-bred trained by Steven Asmussen second in a mile and a sixteenth allowance at Oaklawn Park on March 28. In her only other outing this year, she finished fourth in mile and forty yards $150,000 Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs on February 8. Last year, she posted a record of two wins, a second and a third from nine starts including a win the Grade III Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga and a second in the Grade I Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita. She has a record of two wins, three seconds and a third from nine starts with earnings of $271,251.
$300,000 Grade III Delaware Oaks
For 3-year-old fillies
at a mile and a sixteenth
| # | HORSE | OWNER | TRAINER | JOCKEY | Wg | ODD |
| 1 | Comical | WinStar, Lindy Farms, Mad | Steven Asmussen | Alex Cintron | 116 | 5/2 |
| 2 | Piece of My Heart | Wolfe Racing & Robertson | McLean Robertson | Joe Talamo | 118 | 2-1 |
| 3 | Princess Cadey | Magic Stable | Claudio Gonzalez | Angel Cruz | 120 | 10-1 |
| 4 | Long Point Beach | Five Hellions Farm | Lacey Gaudet | Feargal Lynch | 116 | 15-1 |
| 5 | Hopeful Growth | St. Elias Stable | Anthony Margotta Jr | Trevor McCarthy | 116 | 10-1 |
| 6 | Project Whiskey | Cash Is King LC Racing | Robert Reid | Frankie Pennington | 116 | 12-1 |
| 7 | Dream Marie | Miracle's International | Matthew Williams | Joe Bravo | 116 | 7/2 |
| 8 | Queen Bridget | Mary Ann Gould | John Alexander Ortiz | Tyler Baze | 116 | 12-1 |
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