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A dazzling winner of his only two stateside starts, Irish-bred Hong Kong Harry steps into graded stakes competition and shortens up a furlong
With the legendary former jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. on hand to present the trophy for the race named in honor of racing’s 1978 Triple Crown winner, trainer Sean McCarthy was set to pass the proverbial baton back to trainer Bob Baffert following Saturday’s $100,000 Affirmed Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita, as his one-two finishers, Hopper and High Connection, will be returning to the currently suspended Baffert early next month.
Desert Dawn was the unlikely winner of the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks who went on to run a solid third at 50-1 in the G1 Kentucky Oaks
A two-time graded stakes winner, trainer Tim Yakteen’s Newgrange heads an evenly matched group in Saturday’s Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes
In her first graded stakes appearance, Nick Alexander’s homebred Becca Taylor, a California-bred daughter of Old Topper, outdueled Grade 1-placed Dance to the Music en route to an authoritative 2 ½ length win in the $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes (G3) Saturday at Santa Anita.