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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Robert Trussell’s Formulaforsuccess took command after a quarter of a mile and fended off all challengers to win Sunday’s $53,382 Taylor’s Special Purse for three-year-olds and up by two lengths at Churchill Downs.

GREELEY’S ROCKET FIRES HOME IN CRANK IT UP STAKES AT MONMOUTH

(Edited Monmouth Park report)

OCEANPORT, N.J. – George L. Schwartz’s Way With Words continued her winning ways at Monmouth Park on Sunday, taking the $100,000 Blue Sparkler Stakes, her second consecutive stakes score at the meet as Greeley’s Rocket flew home to take the $100,000 Crank It Up Stakes.

(Edited Monmouth Park report)

Oceanport, N.J. – WinStar Farm’s Super Saver, winner of the Kentucky Derby, will make his next start in Monmouth Park’s Grade 1 IZOD Haskell Invitational, it was confirmed today by his conditioner.

(Edited Hollywood Park report)

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A bump into graded company and added distance didn’t deter Turning Top. The Irish bred filly made it four wins in a row, overtaking pacesetter Princess Taylor in the $100,000 Beverly Hills Handicap Saturday at Hollywood Park.

(Edited Arlington Park report)

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The North American road to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships officially got under way Saturday at Arlington Park when Carl Moore Management’s Chamberlain Bridge posted a 4½-length win in the $118,000 Arlington Sprint.  Jamie Theriot was aboard the Bret Calhoun-trained son of War Chant who covered the 5½ furlongs over “yielding” turf in 1:03.66.

(Edited Churchill Downs report)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Eldon Farm Equine’s Just Louise put away 3-5 favorite Salty Strike in deep stretch and then held off a late surge from Tristanme to win the 110th running of the $108,800 Debutante Stakes (GIII) for 2-year-old fillies by a neck on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs.

Jon Forbes
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – Making her first start since finishing 10th in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby, Devil May Care stalked the pace and held sway in the stretch to take the 54th running of the Grade 1, $250,000 Mother Goose for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday at BelmontPark. Her win gave trainer Todd Pletcher the perfect gift on his 43rd birthday.

GOMEZ SWEEPS SATURDAY STAKES AT MONMOUTH, WINS LIGHTHOUSE ON MALIBU PRAYER

John Heims
Monmouth Park

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Waterville Lake Stable’s Strike It Rich took control right from the start and never looked back, winning the Grade 3, $150,000 Boiling Springs Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday afternoon by a length and a quarter.  In the day’s other stakes action, Malibu Prayer provided Garrett Gomez a stakes sweep by taking the $100,000 Lighthouse Stakes.

Michele Blanco
Calder Race Course
 
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Pinnacle Racing Stable and trainer Bill Kaplan’s 3-year-old filly Musical Romance rallied from off the pace to capture the one-mile Sweettrickydancer overnight stakes on turf at Calder Casino & Race Course on June 6, and will have an additional sixteenth of a mile to run down several of the same opponents in Sunday’s $55,000 Noble Robyn overnight stakes, weather permitting.

Michele Blanco
Calder Race Course
 
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A.P. Indy’s Grade 2-winning son Congrats is obviously a popular freshman stallion standing in Florida and the most prolific of 90 stallions eligible for the 29th edition of Calder’s unique $1.15 million Florida Stallion Stakes (“FSS”) series with 37 of his offspring listed.