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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Belmont at Aqueduct (New York):
Keeneland (Kentucky):
Belmont at Aqueduct (New York):
- Handle: $12.3 million.
- 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 has to be a staggering figure.
- 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.. 5-to-2 and 2-to-1 shots determined a healthy $44.40 $2 exacta and $8.00 in the middle for the runner-up.
Keeneland (Kentucky):
- 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) won the $300,000 Grade 3 Perryville Stakes. Brunacini is 2-for-3 lifetime with three races at different Kentucky tracks.
- Mr. Kentucky: Tyler Gaffalione had three winners. He leads the riders' standings by five victories. The met 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.
- Card: Six races of which four are Group I and one is Group 2. Two races had attachments to the Breeders' Cup.
- Race 1: Kyprios (Ryan Moore/Aidan O'Brien) improved to 19 15-2-0 with an eighth straight victory to win the QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS LONG DISTANCE CUP (GROUP 2).
- 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.
- Race 4: Charyn (Silvestre De Sousa/Roger Varian) won the $1.46 million QUEEN ELIZABETH II STAKES (GROUP 1).
- 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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