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Instant Coffee jumped to No. 2 on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" standings with a weekend victory at Fair Grounds, doing nothing to help trainer Brad Cox sort out nearly a dozen Derby contenders in his care.
Mama’s Gold, a 3-year-old New York-bred Bolt d’Oro colt, drew off to break his maiden by 21 1/4-lengths in a six-furlong state-bred maiden claiming tilt on Saturday at Aqueduct.
Cloud Nine Stable’s graded-stakes placed New York-bred Betsy Blue picked up her second straight open-company stakes score in Saturday’s $100,000 Interborough, a seven-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Etsy Blue was claimed by Rice out of a Big A starter optional claimer for $50,000 in March 2021. Two starts later, she earned her first stakes conquest when capturing the Bouwerie that May at Belmont Park by 5 1/4 lengths.
Chester and Mary Broman’s graded stakes-placed New York homebred Arctic Arrogance, with blinkers on, drilled a half-mile under Jose Lezcano in :50.47 Sunday over the Belmont dirt training track in his first breeze since a runner-up effort in the Jerome on Jan. 7 at Aqueduct.