Bob Baffert<\/a>.<\/p>\nBrant, a Gun Runner colt, finished 7 furlongs in 1:21.92. The $3 million purchase in March at the Ocala sales now is 2-for-2. Baffert won the race for the 19th time.<\/p>\n
Fourth and Central led from gate to wire in Saturday’s $100,000 Dr. Fager Division of the Florida Sire Stakes at Gulfstream Park on his way to a 1 3\/4-length upset victory. The corner of Fourth and Central also is the approximate address of the Churchill Downs stable area in Louisville.<\/p>\n
Juvenile Fillies<\/p>\n
Bottle of Rouge came and caught pacesetting favorite Explora in the stretch run of Saturday’s $300,000 Grade I Del Mar Debutante, winning by 1 length. Both are trained by Baffert, and Bottle of Rouge is owned by his wife, Jill.<\/p>\n
Lennilu, back from a third-place finish in the Group 3 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot, picked up where she left off in her domestic campaign with a hard-fought victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Desert Vixen Division of the Florida Sire Stakes at Gulfstream Park.\n<\/p>\n
Juvenile Turf<\/p>\n
Street Beast won Sunday’s $1 million Global Tote Juvenile Mile at Kentucky Downs by 7 lengths. Hey Nay Nay won Sunday’s $100,000 Grade III Del Mar Juvenile Turf by 1 1\/2 lengths. And Casa Cielo won Saturday’s $125,000 Kitten’s Joy at Colonial Downs.<\/p>\n
Juvenile Turf Sprint<\/p>\n
Quiet Street, a Godolphin homebred filly by Street Boss, won Sunday’s $1 million Untapable Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Kentucky Downs. Royal Testament took Saturday’s $125,000 Exacta Systems Rosie’s Stakes at Colonial Downs.<\/p>\n
Around the world, around the clock<\/p>\n
Arc Preps<\/p>\n
Make of it what you will, but the favorites won exactly none of Sunday’s four Longchamp previews for the Oct. 5 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe card. Only one of them even made the frame.<\/p>\n
Japanese raider Byzantine Dream turned out to be the star of the show, overcoming an awkward start to win the Group 2 Qatar Prix Foy by 1\/2 length over the favorite, Sosie. Coolmore’s hope, Los Angeles, finished fourth. Byzantine Dream, a 4-year-old Epiphaneia colt, also won the Group 2 Red Sea Handicap in Saudi Arabia in February and has inflated hopes Japan can finally lift its decades-long Arc hoodoo.<\/p>\n
Aventure, a locally trained Sea the Star filly, won the Group 1 Qatar Prix Vermille for fillies and mares in a parade of long shots with the favorite, Coolmore’s Whirl, reporting last of six. And French-trained Godolphin homebred Cualificar edged British invader Bay City Roller by a neck in the Group 2 Prix Niel for 3-year olds. The favorite in that, Leffard, finished sixth.\n<\/p>\n
Hong Kong<\/p>\n
Ka Ying Rising ended the 2024-25 Hong Kong season as winner of 12 straight races and “Horse of the Year” title. He showed in Sunday’s HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup Handicap he’s even better in the new season. With Zac Purton up, the New Zealand-bred won by a comfortable 2 1\/2 lengths over Lucky Sweynesse.<\/p>\n
Ka Ying Rising now is headed to the AUS$20 million The Everest on Oct. 18 at Royal Randwick. Lucky Sweynesse, apparently recovered from a serious injury, now is targeted for the Grade 1 Sprint Cup in Japan on Sept 28.<\/p>\n
England<\/p>\n
Big Mojo romped home first in Saturday’s Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock, leading fellow long shot Kind of Blue by 1 1\/4 lengths and longer shot Flora of Bermuda by another nose. The even-money favorite, Lazzat, ran out of steam a furlong out and finished fifth. The Breeders’ Cup could be in the cards for Big Mojo.<\/p>\n
Korea<\/p>\n
Japan’s Diktaean, with Takayauki Yano riding for trainer Katsunori Arayama, rallied quickly through the stretch to win Sunday’s Group 3 Korea Cup by 1 length over Iowa-bred and Hong Kong-trained Chancheng Glory. The victory earned Diktaean a “Win and You’re In” spot in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 1 at Del Mar.\n<\/p>\n
Two races earlier, Hong Kong’s Self Improvement won the Korea Sprint by 1\/2 length over Japan’s Chikappa. The two battled down the stretch before determining the verdict in the final yards. That victory carried a “Win and You’re In” bid to the CyGames Breeders’ Cup Sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 of 3 | Ole Crazy Bone wins Saturday’s Kentucky Cup Turf, earning a “Win and You’re In”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2851,20442,14190,8029,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-123000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-bob-baffert","10":"tag-flavien-prat","11":"tag-horse-racing","12":"tag-racing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}