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Delta Downs closed out its first week of live Thoroughbred racing for the 2022-2023 season on Saturday and the nine-race program featured the $100,000 Gold Cup Stakes for Louisiana-breds competing at seven furlongs. The event was won by Allied Racing Stables  LLC's homebred Who Took the Money under jockey Deshawn Parker.

Using a come-from-behind style in a race with plenty of pace, Who Took the Money rallied strongly around the second turn to garner the lead in the upper stretch and go on to a 7 1/4-length win.

The early pace of :22.80 for the quarter mile and :46.94 for the half was set by Brian's Iron Mike. But as the field turned for home it was Who Took the Money who found the lead and went on to the score. Brian's Iron Mike stayed on for second while Relentless Dancer settled for third another four lengths behind the runner-up.

The final time for Who Took the Money in the Gold Cup was 1:24.51, just 20/100ths off the track record set by No Its Not in 2003.

Who Took the Money was making his local debut in the Gold Cup and was also coming off a five-month layoff. His last start before the race came in the Evangeline Downs Classic back in May, which he also won. The Gold Cup tally was his eighth from 12 overall starts and his fourth in stakes company. He earned $60,000 for his effort on Saturday and now boasts a lifetime bankroll of $347,677.

Who Took the Money is a 4-year-old chestnut gelding by Street Boss out of the Speightstown mare Speight's Colony.

Sent to the gate at odds of 8-5, Who Took the Money paid $5.40.

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Who's the Star, rallying from last place following a sluggish start, roared past his seven rivals to record an impressive victory in Saturday's 1 1/16-mile Durham Cup (G3) at Woodbine.

The 4-year-old Tonalist gelding, one of three horses in the field trained by Mark Casse, was making his first start on a synthetic surface and finished in a track record time of 1:40.73 while scoring by a half-length over Artie's Storm, in the $157,500 event.

“I knew this horse would come running on in, that's what he did the last time he was here,” said jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson, who was recording her second straight upset stakes score with the 9-1 Who's the Star after capturing the Niagara over 1 ¼ miles on the E.P. Taylor course at 13-1 in their first partnership. The Kentucky-bred had finished a non-threatening eighth when making an interim appearance in the 1 ½-mile Kentucky Downs Turf Cup (G2).

“And he's pretty speedy that last quarter, so I just wanted to make sure I got going down the backside into the turn and you know that's a bit of a shorter stretch than the E.P. Taylor. But he handled it beautifully, he was just motoring home. I was really impressed.”

Like the Storm, a second Casse trainee, was sent up from his inside post to duel with War Bomber for the leading into the clubhouse turn and held a half-length advantage through a quarter mile in :23.81.

War Bomber moved up just outside the leader to take charge just after a half-mile went by in :47.05 and led by a half-length as the six furlongs went by in 1:09.93.

Artie's Storm, meanwhile, had been sitting just a couple of lengths back while hugging the rail and swung out to launch his move around the final turn. That momentum carried him to the front after they straightened out for home and he led by a head at the stretch call. But Who's the Star had moved up quickly to take dead aim while racing widest and was not to be denied.

Artie's Storm was a clear second, three lengths before War Bomber with Hombre another two lengths behind in fourth.

Frosted Over, the third Casse entrant, ended fifth as the 2-1 choice with Special Forces, Like the King and Irwin rounding out the order of finish.

Riptide Rock was scratched.

Who's the Star, who began his career in California, joined Casse's string in Florida this winter and looks to have developed a fondness for Woodbine with the Durham Cup his third win in as many outings. The Durham Cup win was the fifth for Casse and the fourth for Wilson.

Owned by M Racing Group LLC, Who's the Star is out of the Carson City mare Shine Forth and was a $375,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase by Golden Star Farm. Penn Sales consigned.

The winner returned $20.10.

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