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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
With a resume of graded stakes-placed experience anchored by a runner-up try in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and a 10-for-10 lifetime record at Laurel Park that included a 17-length blowout in an open-company stakes there last month, Post Time (Frosted) figured to deserve his formidable 1-10 favoritism in the six-horse feature on Saturday's 40th annual Jim McKay Maryland Million program for the offspring of stallions standing in Maryland. But even though the 12-time winner enjoyed a decided advantage on paper in the $150,000 Classic Stakes over 1 1/8 miles, the 5-year-old could not overcome being asked to rate from the back behind dawdling early fractions of :24.98, :50.31 and 1:15.14. By the time the late-striding gray dropped down to the trail and began to fully uncoil at the head of the lane, the closer-to-the-pace Barbadian Runner (Barbados) had already popped off the fence from his rail-skimming stalking spot and out to the three path to accost the wilting pacemaker in front of them. Post Time and Sheldon Russell came over the top at the eighth pole and led tenuously for a sixteenth of a mile. But all the while the wide-and-driving Barbadian Runner and Forest Boyce were building better momentum. A late surge inside the final half a furlong propelled the 3-year-old gelding to victory by three-quarters of a length as the 6-1 second favorite in 1:51.09 over the “fast” main track. While Post Time took the brunt of the betting, Barbadian Runner had credentials, too: Back in January and February, the Shamrock Farm-bred sophomore who races in the colors of AJ Will Win Stables had won a pair of $100,000 open stakes at Laurel that briefly put him in the orbit of being a candidate for the GI Kentucky Derby. Yet Barbadian Runner's spring and summer campaign ended up being more realistically mapped out, and it resulted in victories in both the May 31 $90,000 Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park and the Aug. 22 $500,000 Robert Hilton Memorial Stakes at Charles Town, with three second-place finishes in other mid-Atlantic stakes in between. “The way he developed over the summer just took him to a new level,” said trainer Henry Walters. “Back in the spring, he didn't have the [speed] numbers then that it would have taken to do this. He's gotten progressively better. The race at Charles Town, [Boyce] never had to hit him at all. So it's the only comfort zone I had going into this race, knowing he had more in the tank in that race; he never got tired. So the mile-and-an-eighth was a question, but he answered it today. “I'm speechless right now,” Walters said. “I mean, for him to not only win this race, but to beat a horse like Post Time, is incredible. I knew he would break sharp today. The only thing I told Forest was just save ground. Pace can make the race, and it was a slow pace. He was able to stay close, and he got the jump on Post Time turning for home. It was a gutsy performance on his part.” With three wins by his progeny on the eight-stakes portion of the program, including a sweep of the 2-year-old stakes, the stallion Great Notion increased an already remarkable Maryland Million streak to 16 years: His offspring have now won at least one stakes in every running of the Maryland Million since 2010. Great Notion has been the state's leading stallion by progeny earnings every year since 2018, and is once again the sizable leader in money won so far this season. In the $100,000 Nursery Stakes for 2-year-old males, second-time starter Big Cuddle (Great Notion), who had rallied from sixth and last as the favorite to win his only previous start, a Sept. 11 maiden special weight at Delaware Park, again had to pass 'em all to muscle out a three quarter-length win. After breaking last in a field of 13, Yedsit Hazlewood patiently guided the 7-10 favorite to a prime outside position that enabled the colt to spark into a strong drive three furlongs out. After cornering for home in the six path and then having to shift off the heels of a rival in upper stretch, Big Cuddle was still fifth at the eighth pole. But he dug in with purpose once set down to deliver the victory in 1:12.10 for six furlongs. Big Cuddle | JIm McCue/MJC Bred by Two Legends Farm, the 2-for-2 son of Great Notion is owned by Pocket 3's Racing and trained by Gary Capuano. In the companion $100,000 Lassie Stakes for 2-year-old-fillies, Slewperstitus (Great Notion) similarly executed a victory from well off the tailgate under Jevian Toledo. This 4-5 favored, Robert Bailes-trained, Great Notion-sired homebred for Nancy and Eric Rizer prowled from the back of the pack, advanced under light coaxing on the far turn while four deep, then launched into an impeccably timed, length-of-stretch grind-down to prevail by a neck in 1:12.23 for six furlongs. In the $125,000 Turf Stakes over nine furlongs and “firm” conditions, Coringa (Practical Joke) went off favored for the sixth straight race, even though the 4-year-old gelded son of Practical Joke has a penchant for finishing second (seven times in 13 lifetime starts going into Saturday's race). Jockey Mychel Sanchez established command straight from the start, and an all-business Coringa responded determinedly to constant pace pressure, displaying a visually arresting turn of foot inside the final furlong before being ridden out late to win by 1 1/4 lengths at 13-10 odds in 1:47.82. Bred by R. Larry Johnson and owned in partnership by Clarke Ohrstrom, Gregory Kilka, Awestrike Racing and Benjamin Gowans, Coringa earned his fourth lifetime victory for trainer Michael Trombetta. He has never finished worse than fourth through 14 starts. In the $125,000 Ladies Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on the lawn, the 11-1 Worth a Dime (Mosler) was still last a quarter mile from home before Jorge Ruiz guided her big white blaze through the pack in mid-stretch. The 3-year-old homebred for Nancy Lee Farms ripped the race wide open at the eighth pole and burst clear late to win going away by 2 1/2 lengths for trainer Tim Keefe in 1:41.90. The victory was the second from six lifetime starts for Worth a Dime. Making her second start off a six-month layoff in the $100,000 Distaff Stakes at seven furlongs, Onyx Ten (Street Magician) earned her fourth win in a 2025 campaign that also includes two open sprint stakes victories at Laurel back in the spring. The 3-year-old filly sat patiently in the back third of the field, split horses several times weaving through traffic on the turn, then kicked clear in the three path turning for home. She built up enough impetus to have the race in her control by the eighth pole and ended up winning by 1 3/4 lengths at 6-1 odds in 1:24.34. Onyx Ten is a homebred for Frank Sample. Gary Capuano trains, with Hazlewood winning a second stakes race (fourth tally overall) on the Oct. 11 card. In the $100,000 Turf Sprint Stakes over 5 1/2 furlongs, Had to Have Him (Force the Pass), who was third in this Maryland Million stakes last year and was exiting an open-company stakes victory over this same course at six furlongs last month, sat patiently behind a three-way go and drove home four wide off the turn to score by three-quarters of a length in 1:02.47 as the 7-5 second favorite under Toledo. The 4-year-old gelding was bred by Wes Carter. He hasn't been off the board in five starts this year for owners Gracie Mae Stables and Great Lake Stable, with John Salzman training. In the $100,000 Sprint Stakes at six furlongs, Slam Notion (Great Notion) was confidently handled behind dueling leaders, then adeptly put them away in deep stretch to register a 5-2 win by 1 1/4 lengths in 1:10.17. The stakes victory was the second of the day for the same homebred connections as Slewperstitus in the Lassie Stakes (the Rizers and trainer Bailes). It was the third stakes score of the afternoon for both jockey Toledo and sire Great Notion. The post Barbadian Runner Upsets 1-10 Fave In Maryland Million Classic appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Always a consistent runner in the 3-year-old turf filly circuit, Lush Lips broke through for a signature victory in the $665,300 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1T) at Keeneland Oct. 11.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
French import Les Reys took to the synthetic track at Woodbine and defeated her stablemate Gal in Rush with a well-timed, ground-saving trip in the Oct. 11 Ontario Fashion Stakes (G3).View the full article
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