After working in six straight two-turn races, Home Product returned to a one-turn distance and responded with a dominant efficiency as he motored to a 7 1/2-length victory within the one-mile $200,000 Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes for 3-year-olds July 6 at Belmont on the Large A.
Following Home Product’s Thirteenth-place end within the Kentucky Derby offered by Woodford Reserve, Home Product ran second by practically seven lengths in Monmouth Park‘s 1 1/16-mile Pegasus Stakes June 15. Coach Chad Brown then determined that shifting to one-turn races can be within the colt’s finest pursuits.
Brown focused the seven-furlong Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes as Home Product’s essential summer time goal. The tough half then grew to become find out how to finest prep Home Product for that Aug. 24 stakes at Saratoga Race Course?
Then Brown noticed the Dwyer Stakes. Drawback solved.
“We’ll shoot for the Jerkens after this,” Brown stated. “I used to be pondering after the final race at Monmouth it was a far cutback and a protracted layoff from the Pegasus to the Jerkens. That is why I made a decision to enter him on the final minute within the Dwyer. Now the spacing makes extra sense to me and the cutback isn’t as drastic with this race underneath his belt. The Jerkens can be a unique subject in a seven-furlong race, and this can assist him in that race.”
The victory was the third in eight profession begins for Home Product and his first win since a neck victory within the March Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby victory that punched his ticket to the run for the roses.
Although he ran in six straight two-turn races earlier than Saturday, Home Product definitely regarded the a part of a stellar mile or seven-furlong kind of runner within the Dwyer. Ridden by Flavien Prat, he was third after a gap quarter mile in :23.51, a few size behind the pacesetting Billal within the cozy subject of 4. Prat put Home Product ($3.40) on even phrases with the chief approaching the quarter pole, after which the 3-5 favourite pulled away with ease within the stretch, masking the gap in a fast 1:33.54.
“I used to be very happy with this horse. He is a hardy, sturdy kind of horse,” Brown stated.
Hades completed a transparent second, 5 lengths forward of Billal in third. Save the Bushes trailed all through.
Trikari added a top-level win to his rising résumé within the $750,000 Grade 1 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes July 6 on the Belmont on the Large A gathering.
Stalking the pacesetting White Palomino behind dawdling early fractions, Trikari pounced on the chief with 1 / 4 mile to run and battled that rival to the wire. Ridden by John Velazquez, the 3-year-old son of Oscar Efficiency narrowly received the photograph over a recreation White Palomino.
Skilled by Graham Movement, Trikari ($12.40) stopped the timer in a closing time of 1:54.71. Favored Legend of Time, hampered by visitors late, accomplished the trifecta. Endlessly, the second alternative on the tote board, completed final within the five-horse subject.
Cinderella’s Dream travelled to the US for the primary time and didn’t disappoint in her U.S. debut, rallying from the again of the pack to catch front-runners Segesta and She Feels Fairly to win the $500,000 Grade 1 Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational July 6 at Belmont on the Large A. She raced 1 3/16 miles on agency turf in 1:53.42, establishing a course document over the occasionally run distance on the Aqueduct turf course.
The winner, a Godolphin homebred 3-year-old skilled by Charlie Appleby and ridden by Godolphin’s main abroad rider, William Buick, scored her fifth victory in six begins and her first on the graded stakes degree. All of her different races had are available in both Britain or Dubai, along with her solely loss being a seventh-place end within the Group 1 One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket in her most up-to-date begin on Could 5.
Cinderella’s Dream paid $9.30 for a $2 win wager because the second alternative within the subject of 9.
Segesta gamely turned again favored She Feels Fairly in a photograph end for the place. Pin Up Betty ran fourth. — Byron King
Mullikin earned his first graded stakes win when victorious by 1 1/2 lengths atop a five-horse subject within the $200,000 Grade 2 John A. Nerud Stakes going seven furlongs at Belmont on the Large A on July 6.
Skilled by Rodolphe Brisset and ridden by Flavien Prat, Mullikin pressed a quick tempo all through and completed quickest to safe the win in a time of 1:20.54 because the 6-5 favourite in a five-horse subject. Coastal Mission completed second and Ninetyprcentmaddie completed third. The ultimate time was solely two ticks off Artax’s 1:20.04 observe document set in 1999.
“He simply has a really excessive cruising velocity, and he was recreation down the lane,” Prat stated. “I feel Rodolphe did a fantastic job. The horse has improved race after race.”
Saturday’s rating has put the Aug. 24 Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on the radar for Mullikin subsequent.
