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Atop his game at age seven, trainer Phil D’Amato’s Count Again rates top billing in Saturday’s Frank E. Kilroe Mile

Phil D’Amato had a busy Sunday morning as he prepared several of his elite Thoroughbreds for their lucrative engagements in Santa Anita’s inaugural 1/ST Saturday  presentation of stakes races on March 5.D’Amato, one behind Bob Baffert for Santa Anita’s training lead, has Count Again ticketed for Saturday’s Grade 1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile on turf, in which he finished an onrushing third by a half-length last year despite a wide trip.

Colonel Liam, Domestic Spending Dead-Heat In A Turf Classic Thriller Sponsored by: Domestic Spending (outside) and Colonel Liam hit the wire together in the Turf Classic A pair of Grade 1-winning 4-year-olds – Colonel Liam from the barn of Todd Pletcher and the Chad Brown-trained Domestic Spending – hit the wire together in Saturday's Turf Classic Stakes at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., producing the first dead-heat in the 35-year history of the Grade 1 grass fixture run immediately prior to the Kentucky Derby. Colonel Liam, ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., seized command from fr...

Sponsored by: Hit the Road and Florent Geroux come up the inside to win the Kilroe Mile In a thrilling head and head battle to the wire, trainer Dan Blacker's Hit the Road prevailed by a neck over 5-2 favorite Smooth Like Strait, in Saturday's $400,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, providing Blacker, 38, with his first Grade 1 triumph.  Ridden for the first time by eastern-based Florent Geroux, Hit the Road, 4-year-old colt by More Than Ready, out of the U S Ranger mare Highway Mary, got the mile on grass in 1:34.48. With longshot Flying Scotsman hustled from his outside pos...

Sponsored by: Count Again sweeps to victory in the Seabiscuit Handicap under Juan Hernandez Phil D'Amato has three horses nominated to next Saturday's Grade 2 San Marcos Stakes at a mile and a quarter on turf at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., and all are possible starters for the trainer who celebrates his 45th birthday March 11. The three are Acclimate, Count Again and Salvator Mundi. Although they gained a week due to rain, each would be coming back on a relatively short turnaround, led by Acclimate, third as the 19-10 favorite in the Unusual Heat Turf Classic on Jan. 16. Count A...