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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Belmont at Aqueduct (New York):
Gulfstream (Florida):
Ascot (England):
Belmont at Aqueduct (New York):
- Handle: $12.3 million.
- Three Triples: Ricardo Santana, Jr. rode three winners. Trainers Rob Atras and shockingly Chad Brown, all on turf, also had triples -- the latter is intended sarcasm. Brown's success rate on New York turf has to be a staggering figure.
- Chad Brown has won seven of the past 11 races in which he has entered at New York, though that includes multiple starters in some, for a record of 16 7-2-1.
- Annual Event: The 103rd annual Far Hills Steeplechase Race Meeting.
- Handle: $431,000.
- Race 5: Snap Decision (Graham Watters/Jack Fisher) won the $250,000 Grand National Steeplechase in a three-across-the-wire performance at a distance of 2 5/8 miles.. The $2 exacta paid a healthy $44.40 with 5-to-2 and 2-to-1 shots on top of the ticket while a remarkable $8.00 was paid in the middle for the runner-up.
Gulfstream (Florida):
- Card: 12 races of which three were Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association six-figure purses.
- Handle: $6 million.
- Edgar Perez rode two first-timers to victory.
- Race 1: Dime Papi (Edgar Perez/Ronald Coy) won the opener in a debut performance at 38-to-1.
- Race 7: McKellen (Edgar Perez/Jose D'Angelo) won a debut race at 8-to-1, the lone first-timer in the race.
- Handle: $15 million.
- Race 9: Emery (Tyler Gaffalione/Brad Cox) won the Grade 2 $350,000 Raven Run. The 3-year-old More Than Ready filly is 7 5-1-0 lifetime and is now a multiple graded stakes winner.
- Race 7: Brunacini (Luan Machado/Matthew Sims) set a stakes-record-time with a victory at the imposing odds of 28-to-1 to capture the $300,000 Grade 3 Perryville Stakes. Brunacini is 2-for-3 lifetime with three races at different Kentucky tracks. Brunacini, a son of the now-deceased Santa Anita Derby winner Dortmund gave that sire his first graded stakes winner. Brunacini was named after George Brunacini, a business partner and former fiancée of breeder Emilie Fojan who was killed in a plane crash at Lexington (KY) airport many years ago. Machado was suspended three days earlier this week [to be served December 23-25] for an infamous ride on October 16 in which he misjudged the finish line in what should have been a comfortable victory at Keeneland. Sims, who took out his license last year, earned a graded stakes for the first time.
- Mr. Kentucky: Tyler Gaffalione had three winners. He leads the riders' standings by five victories. The meet ends October 26.
- Leading Trainers: Brad Cox has 10 wins (38%) to lead all conditioners, but Rodolphe Brisset has won eight times with 18 starters for a fantastic 44% strike rate.
- Race 8: Sumter (Mike Smith/Richard Mandella) won the $80,000 Lure Stakes. Sumter ended a 16-race skid and last won on April 2, 2022.
- Race 9: Dresden Row (Ryan Munger/Lorne Richards) won the Grade 3 $135,000 Ontario Derby.
Ascot (England):
- Card: Six races of which four are Group I and one is Group 2. Included on the card are the final two Breeders' Cup "Wins and You're In" Challenge Series races.
- Race 1: Kyprios (Ryan Moore/Aidan O'Brien) improved to 19 15-2-0 with a seventh straight victory to win the QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS LONG DISTANCE CUP (GROUP 2). Kyprios has earned roughly the U.S. equivalent of $3.4 million lifetime and that includes a perfect 7-for-7 record in 2024. O’Brien said: “What can you say about him. Obviously the people around him, everyone who is around him have made it happen. There’s such a big team and they’ve all played a part. He’s a very special horse, something that we’ve never seen before, he’s relentless and has an unbelievable amount of quality."
- Race 3: Kalpana (William Buick/Andrew Balding) won the $635,000 QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS FILLIES & MARES STAKES (GROUP 1). This is a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" race. Kalpana is 8 5-2-1 lifetime and currently sports a 3-win streak.
- Race 4: Charyn (Silvestre De Sousa/Roger Varian) won the $1.46 million QUEEN ELIZABETH II STAKES (GROUP 1). Charyn has seven wins in 16 lifetime starts including three Group I wins in 2024 in which he is a brilliant 7 5-2-0. Charyn was winless in seven starts in 2023.
- Race 5: Anmaat (James Crowley/Owen Burrows) won the $1.65 million QIPCO CHAMPION STAKES (GROUP 1) at odds of 40-to-1. This is a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" race.
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