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Keeneland has cataloged 4,147 horses for the 79th annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale, the world’s largest and most significant marketplace for Thoroughbred racing prospects.
American Theorem swooped widest and fastest of all Saturday in the 77th edition of the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar Saturday.
Beaten 50 lengths in his last three starts, all stakes, at distances of 1 1/8 miles and 1 ¼ miles, trainer George Papaprodromou’s American Theorem, unhurried early, rallied from off the pace to just outfinish Principe Carlo on the money and win Sunday’s $200,000 Triple Bend Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita.
In a thrilling stretch duel, C R K Stable’s Express Train prevailed by a head over midwestern shipper Warrant in Saturday’s 85th running of the Grade 1, $650,000 Santa Anita Handicap Presented by Yaamava’ Resort and Casino at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Once again a finalist for Racing’s Hall of Fame, trainer John Shirreffs notched his first-ever Big ’Cap victory while Victor Espinoza got his third win in North America’s longest continually run “hundred grander.”
Fresh off perhaps the best race of his career, Express Train heads a field of eight older horses in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap.