Win Willy became Thoroughbred racing’s latest millionaire when he made up a five-length deficit in the final furlong to win Saturday’s $50,250 Joe French Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park.
The 7-year-old Win Willy ($7), ridden by Alex Cintron for trainer Mac Robertson and owner Jer-Mar Stable, has now won 11 of 32 starts and $1,015,437. It was his fifth win in eight starts on Delaware’s main track.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Shakeira, who continues to improve with experience, earned her first stakes victory and did it impressively Saturday at Belmont Park, overcoming a wide trip to register a well-earned neck decision over Inimitable Romance in the $125,000 Mount Vernon Stakes.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Let Em Shine, winner of the Came Home Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters at Hollywood on May 11, will make his graded stakes debut in the $400,000 Woody Stephens Stakes for 3-year-olds over seven furlongs at Belmont Park next Saturday.
Trainer Adam Kitchingman confirmed the plans after Let Em Shine worked five furlongs in 59.80 seconds Friday. Kitchingman timed Let Em Shine in 58.60.
“He’s training as good as he can be,” Kitchingman said.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Displaying the ability to come from off the pace, Amberjack ran past the dueling leader Weekend Hideaway to win Saturday’s $125,000 Mike Lee Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds at Belmont Park.
Weekend Hideaway, the 7-5 favorite, finished second after dueling with Hay Shares through a strong early pace. Smooth Bert was third and followed in the order of finish by Soul House, West Hills Giant – who stumbled badly at the break – Hay Shares and Run Forrest Run. Bond Vigilante and Belief System scratched.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Saturday proved to be another warm and relatively uneventful morning at Belmont Park so far as the 10 prospective Belmont Stakes starters stabled on the grounds were concerned. Only one member of that group, Always in a Tiz, turned in a recorded workout, with the majority of the others gearing up for their scheduled workouts here Sunday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Scatman inspired considerable hope in the Hall of Fame barn of Bill Mott last fall in Kentucky, but the colt and his form went south – literally and figuratively – over the winter.
Back to his Kentucky-loving self, Scatman wore down Jasizzle in the final furlong Saturday for his first career stakes victory in the 25th running of the Grade 3, $106,800 Aristides over a sloppy Churchill Downs track.
ELMONT, N.Y. - In what amounted to little more than a paid public workout, Lovely Syn rolled to a 10 1/4 length victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Bouwerie Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park.
The win was the fourth in as many starts for Lovely Syn, a daughter of Freud owned and bred by Joemar Racing Stables and trained by Dominick Schettino.
Cloudy Vow, who was good enough last fall to pick up small pieces of the purse in a pair of Grade 2 stakes in Kentucky, returns to the place where she began her racing career Tuesday evening at Presque Isle Downs.
The 3-year-old Cloudy Vow shifts from dirt to Presque Isle’s synthetic Tapeta surface and cuts back sharply in distance from 1 1/16 miles to 6 1/2 furlongs seeking her second victory in Tuesday’s fourth race, a nonwinners-of-two allowance with a $36,000 purse.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The road to the Kentucky Derby for Always in a Tiz was full of potholes. A troubled trip in one prep, a disdain for a sloppy track in another, and an absolute debacle in a third kept the horse from making it to the Run for the Roses.
The connections of Always in a Tiz are hopeful their winter – and early spring – of discontent are behind their 3-year-old and are hoping for a dramatic change of fortune in the 145th Belmont Stakes to be run next Saturday.
