It was his first win since the Grade I Futurity at Keeneland last October. Rattle N Roll, sent off a lukewarm favorite, took the lead heading down the stretch and got away to a 2-lengths victory over Kuchar. Rattle N Roll, a Grade I winner at 2 but a disappointment through the Triple Crown series, found his bearings in Saturday's $200,000 American Derby at Churchill Downs - an historic and prestigious race transplanted from Arlington Park, and then switched this year to the dirt. It's all about him telling us what to do." Pletcher said the path forward for Charge It could include the Jim Dandy, the Travers "or both. "At one point, I looked at the Secretariat pole and thought, "Whoa! This is close.'" "I'm not sure what the official margin is, but it's pretty far," Pletcher said immediately after the Dwyer. Before that, he was second in the Florida Derby. Ironically, the margin of victory, big as at was, fell 5 lengths shy of the margin of Charge It's loss in his last race, the Kentucky Derby, in which he finished 17th, beaten 28 lengths, reportedly with breathing woes from a displaced palate. Runninsonofagun was up for second, 2 1/4 lengths better than Fluid Situation. Something put a charge into Charge It in Saturday's $250,000 Grade III Dwyer Stakes for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park as the Tapit colt delivered a Secretariat-style show.Īfter putting away an early pace challenge, Charge It simply left all five rivals in his dust, leading by 10 lengths early in the stretch and 23 lengths at the wire under a hand ride by John Velazquez. After two unimpressive efforts at age 2, Frosted Over now has posted top-three finishes in seven of his last eight starts. Artie's Storm was up for second with Mighty Heart holding third.įrosted Over, a 4-year-old Frosted colt, finished 1 1/8 miles on the all-weather track in 1:49.46 without much asked of him by jockey Kazushi Kimura. The Stephen Foster was a "Win and You're In" event for the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic.įrosted Over shadowed pacesetting Mighty Heart all the way to the stretch turn in Friday's $180,000 (Canadian) Grade III Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine, cruised by that one and rolled home first by 4 3/4 lengths. "We've always thought about running him in the Whitney so I think that would be the next possible target." It was really nice to see him win like that. "There were some nice horses in this field and I thought he did things rather easily. "I thought it was a very game win this afternoon," Mott said of Olympiad's effort. He added to earlier 2022 scores in a Gulfstream Park allowance, the Grade III Mineshaft and Grade II New Orleans Classic at Fair Grounds and the Grade II Alysheba at Churchill Downs. Olympiad, a 4-year-old Speightstown colt trained by Bill Mott, pressed the pace and was clearly best in the stretch, finishing 1 1/8 miles in 1:47.66 with Junior Alvarado up.
26, Mandaloun was a dull fourth in the Foster. The reigning Kentucky Derby winner, Mandaloun, did not fare so well in his first start since returning from overseas. So, too, did Americanrevolution, who finished a dogged second, well in front of Proxy in third.
(See "News and Notes" about that Grade II.) Olympiad served notice he'll need to be considered in big races going forward, likely also in the Whitney, as he extended his winning streak to five with a 2 1/4-length victory in Saturday's $750,000 Grade II Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs. We'll come back in five weeks and see if we can make another step forward. "There's only one outcome that was OK and that was for him to win. "You never take anything for granted," Pletcher said.
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