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“When a horse has been off that long, you want to make it as easy as you can. But they’re never easy,” Glatt noted.
Longshot Wizard of Westwood would’ve made his namesake proud as he relaxed and controlled Sunday’s $100,000 Singletary Stakes but just missed as favored Mi Hermano Ramon was able to get up and win by head under Umberto Rispoli.
With conditions to his liking, Whatmakessammyrun made an eye catching last-to-first run to take Sunday’s $100,000 Siren Lure Stakes, his second stakes win down Santa Anita’s hillside turf course.
In his first try down Santa Anita’s unique hillside turf course, First Peace found room at the rail turning for home and prevailed by one length over longshot Mas Rapido in the $100,000 John Shear Stakes for 3-year-olds Sunday as owners Rancho Temescal LLC and Red Baron’s Barn LLC padded their meet-leading races-won number to 13.
Mo Stash earned his first graded stakes win in Friday's Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland, taking the field of 3-year-olds gate-to-wire