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Trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci earned the first graded stakes victory of his career when Evvie Jets rolled to a 1 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Noble Damsel (G3), a one-mile inner turf test for fillies and mares at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
The 4-year-old Twirling Candy bay nearly gave trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci his first graded win in his first attempt with a pacesetting neck loss here to Love And Thunder last out on September 24 in the nine-furlong Grade 3 Athenia.
Sunday’s card at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $85,635 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Saturday’s 11-race program.
Friday’s Pick 6 will kick off in Race 4 [2:12 p.m. Eastern]. First post for the nine-race card is 12:35 p.m.
Two-time graded stakes winner Wit drew away from five rivals to post a 2 3/4-length score Sunday in the $135,000 Better Talk Now, a one-mile inner turf test for sophomores that have never won a stakes other than state-bred at a mile or over.