Cross Border defends title in Bowling Green

By Melissa Bauer-Herzog

It was a second straight Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes victory for evergreen New York-bred runner Cross Border Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.

The 7-year-old horse raced comfortably in third a few lengths behind the pair of Channel Cat and Channel Maker under Luis Saez in the spread out field. Pace-making Channel Cat set early fractions of :24.75 and :49.37 in the 1 3/8-mile race with Cross Border moving closer as 1:14.52 flashed on the board for the three-quarters and by the top of the stretch, Cross Border was making a serious challenge.

Channel Cat gave in almost immediately when Cross Border headed him and from there, the New York-bred pulled away. Cross Border coasted through the final sixteenth to win by an easy 1 1/4 lengths in 2:16.38.

“He loves it here,” Saez said. “This is a special horse that I love riding. He always tries hard. Today, he ran huge. It setup perfect with a good pace. When we came to the top of the stretch, he really gave me that kick and he battled. He always wants to give me everything. It all went according to plan.”

The Bowling Green was the first victory in five 2021 starts for Cross Border, who had placed third in both the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational and the Grade 2 Pan American Stakes to start the year for Three Diamonds Farm and trainer Mike Maker.

Now the winner of 10 of 35 starts with 12 other top-three finishes, Cross Border made strides toward reaching the million-dollar mark Saturday with his lifetime earnings of $948,821.

Purchased for $100,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale by his connections, Cross Border was originally a $180,000 Keeneland September yearling his first time through the ring.

The son of English Channel was bred by Berkshire Stud and B. D. Gibbs and is one of three winners from three to run out the Empire Maker mare Empress Josephine. That mare is a half-sister to multiple stakes winning New York-bred Rhum, who is the dam of top New York sire Central Banker.

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Foolish Ghost proves wise in John Morrissey

By IV Hendrix

Torrential rain fell on Saratoga Race Course Thursday as the field broke from the gate in the John Morrissey Handicap. Trainer Ray Handal stood, thoroughly soaked, on the rail by the winner’s enclosure. By the top of the stretch, things weren’t looking good for Handal’s entry, Foolish Ghost. Until jockey Joel Rosario made a move.

“He’s never won off the pace,” Handal said. “There’s only one guy who could do that and it’s Joel.”

Foolish Ghost, the 4-1 third choice in the field of eight, ran most of the 6 1/2-furlong stakes second behind longshot Wow Brown. But at the top of the stretch, Rosario swung wide to overtake the tiring frontrunner. By the sixteenth pole, Rosario and Foolish Ghost drew off to win by 3 3/4 lengths over My Boy Tate.

“We picked up Joel at the last minute. It wasn’t even planned,” Handal said. “I got Joel because he was unnamed – but I couldn’t have picked a more perfect guy to suit a horse who’s kind of run-off.”

A veteran of claiming and allowance ranks, Ken Russell’s and Richard Newman Racing’s New-York-bred son of Mineshaft had never been entered in a stakes. But at 6 years old, the gelding was quickly running out of conditions.

“We really didn’t have a whole lot of options in terms of where to go with him,” Newman said. “It was either try and take a shot against these tough horses or not run for a month. And he was ready to run.”

Newman, a Queens native, claimed Foolish Ghost for $25,000 at Saratoga in August 2020. Introduced to racing by his father as a child in the 1970s, the longtime owner wasn’t deterred when he heard the gelding had a tough reputation on the backside.

“He’s an absolute need-to-lead type of horse,” Newman said. “In my wildest dreams I didn’t think he’d run this good. [Ray] took a pretty nice horse and turned him in to a star.”

“He was a stone cold runoff,” Handal, who rides the gelding most mornings, said. “I’d take him out to the pony track at Belmont and just kind of jack my irons up and sit against him. He’d rip my guts out for six times around there.”

Foolish Ghost returned from a shorter break than usual between races and Handal wasn’t sure how he’d would fair. Handal said the gelding thrives on four to six weeks weeks between races, but this time he ran back in 25 days.

“I didn’t breeze him in between races and I think that really did the trick,” Handal said. “He really finished with a ton of run. I can’t believe how strong he came home.”

While this wasn’t Newman’s first win at Saratoga, he relishes the feeling each time he makes the trip down the clubhouse stairs toward the winner’s circle.

“We’ve been here before but it certainly feels as good as the first time,” he said. “To be honest I didn’t give him much of a chance, but he just showed a totally different dimension.”

Bred by Pinnacle Farms I LLC, Foolish Ghost is the third foal out of the winning Roaring Fever mare Roaring Ghost. The winner of three of 22 starts with 11 placings and earnings of $94,720, Roaring Ghost is the dam of three winners from four foals to race.

Pinnacle Farms Racing campaigned her first two foals, the Discreetly Mine gelding Saratoga Charlie who won two of 21 starts and $74,603 and the Majestic Warrior gelding Le Grand Warrior who won three of 19 starts and $77,459. Pinnacle also races her 4-year-old Archarcharch filly Ghostghostghost who has earned $22,084 in 10 starts.

Roaring Ghost is also the dam of a yearling New York-bred colt by Sky Mesa, bred by Pinnacle Farms I, and she was bred to Laoban in 2020.

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Step Dancer rolls late to win Cab Calloway

By Tom Law

Robin Malatino stopped on the way out of the clubhouse early Wednesday afternoon, minutes removed from Step Dancer’s second Saratoga victory in as many starts and told the improbable tale of the winner of the $150,000 Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes.

“If you want to hear the most incredible story, do you want me to tell you in a minute?” said Malatino, the self-appointed president, vice president, secretary, sergeant-at-arms, you-name-it supporter of Step Dancer’s sire War Dancer.

Step Dancer delivered for Malatino, who races with her husband Tony in the name Diamond M Stable, and their partners Richard and Donna Pressman, trainer Barclay Tagg and jockey Dylan Davis. Step Dancer won the 1-mile Cab Calloway by a neck after a furious stretch run to catch Dreamer’s Disease in the final strides for his second stakes victory and first from four starts this season.

He’s won three of seven with a second and two thirds for $219,800 in earnings. That’s impressive, for a stallion who stands for $7,500 out of a mare claimed for $16,000 in 2016 at Saratoga, but not nearly as remarkable as the story of how it all came together.

“After we claimed the mare … Carl Domino, who you saw here today, took her back to the barn and said, ‘oh, bowed tendon, this and that, we’re not going to race her,’ ” Malatino said. “So we took her back to the farm and bred her to War Dancer. She’s a maiden mare. She has the baby and she tried to kill him. I have videos, she’d try to bite him by the back of his neck like a lion. Then she’d kiss him, then she’d tried to kill him. We had to put a board up between him and his mom and he would sneak under the board. He was so little and he’d sneak under the board to nurse. He just wanted love.”

The Malatinos and the team at their Sugar Plum Farm just down the road from Saratoga Race Course on Route 9P across I-87 eventually decided to give Just Be Steppin away and put the young bay colt on a nurse mare.

That didn’t work any better.

“The nurse mare comes in and apparently she had a baby at one of these nursing places,” Malatino said. “She was angry. She rejected him, she was so angry. We had to put a mask on her face. We called her Hannibal Lecter. She tried to kill him, too. We had to take him away from her, too. So we wound up getting a half-paint, half-Thoroughbred mare that was so small he had to duck to get under her. But she loved him. He’s a Cinderella story. The poor guy, he was rejected by two moms, but here he is today.”

Bred by Sugar Plum Farm and Richard Pressman, Step Dancer went to post for the 1-mile Cab Calloway as the 7-5 favorite in the field of eight. He and Davis raced sixth through the early stages while Dreamer’s Disease, a son of the late Laoban, clicked off splits of :23.80 and :48.77 on a loose rein from David Cohen.

Dreamer’s Disease continued to lead into the lane, opening up by 2 lengths while Davis switched him to the outside for a run. Dreamer’s Disease flashed past the eighth pole 5 lengths in front but Step Dancer, a maiden winner in his debut at Saratoga last summer and winner of the Awad Stakes over open company in his third start on Halloween, sliced into the deficit with each stride.

Step Dancer continued on late and collared the leader just before the wire to win by a neck in 1:35.83 over the firm inner turf course. Dreamer’s Disease held second by 4 3/4 lengths from It’s Gravy with Gator Bite fourth.

“Just like the last race except he won this one,” Tagg said after watching the replay in the clubhouse, referring to Step Dancer’s runner-up finish in the Spectacular Bid division of the New York Stallion Series June 19 at Belmont Park. “He got away from the gate a little slower than I would have liked and he had a crowd to work through. That never helps I don’t think but he’s a competitive little horse. I love Saratoga. It’s great to win here.”

Step Dancer is the lone foal produced by Just Be Steppin, a daughter of English Channel who won one of eight starts with a second and a third for $21,885 in earnings. She scored that lone win in a 1-mile turf maiden claiming race for trainer Merrill Scherer at Fair Grounds in March 2016.

Just Be Steppin ran twice more – in a Churchill Downs $40,000 claiming race and an allowance race at Presque Isle Downs – before she was claimed out of her third-place finish in a 9-furlong dirt race Aug. 11, 2016 at Saratoga. Step Dancer is the leading runner for War Dancer, who stands at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions in Stillwater.

“We called him Step Son early and then he became Step Dancer,” Malatino said. “During training we’d go to see him in Florida and they’d show us all our horses and Barry (Berkelhammer) would say, ‘do you want to see Step Son?’ We’d ask what he thought and he said he’s OK. He’s cute, whatever, stuff like that. Now he’s our best one. … He looked like a monster coming down the stretch there.”

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A Bit o’Irish Sass continues improvement in New York Oaks

By Tom Law

A Bit o’Irish Sass added another stakes win to the ledger of the late Laoban Monday with an emphatic victory over three opponents in the $75,000 New York Oaks at Finger Lakes.

Coming off a maiden victory 25 days ago on a sloppy track at Belmont Park, the gray filly battled for the lead early and put away A Life That’s Good on the way to a 4 ½-length victory over 8-5 favorite U Guys Are No Fun. Ridden by Reylu Gutierrez, A Bit o’Irish Sass won the 1 1/16-mile New York Oaks in 1:47.77.

“She’s really improving,” said Rick Schosberg, who trains and co-owns the filly with Clear Stars Stable and Mitre Box Stable. “We knew when she stretched out she’d run to her pedigree. She’s done everything right. She’s mentally and physically maturing at the right rate.

“She has really, stepped it up. When she saw the racetrack, when we walked up to the track, she got into that cocky dance that horses do when they get pretty confident about their surroundings.”

The fans on hand and others watching at home must have noticed, too, as A Bit o’Irish Sass opened up at 3-5. She eventually drifted up to 5-2 behind U Guys Are No Fun and just below Destinationwnrscir and A Life That’s Good.

“She did everything right and Reylu rode her perfectly,” Schosberg said. “They challenged her again just like she was challenged at Belmont. Once she relaxed and switched over her lead she extended.”

Schosberg entered A Bit o’Irish Sass main track only in the last race Saturday but when the rains didn’t arrive until the evening – and after learning there might be some scratches in the New York Oaks – he readied the filly for the approximately 200-mile trip from Saratoga to Farmington.

A Bit o’Irish Sass earned $45,000 for her connections with the victory, boosting her bankroll to $113,610 and improving to 2-0-3 in six starts.

Bred by Sequel Stallions NY and Harry Landry and foaled at Hidden Lake at Questroyal Farm in Stillwater, A Bit o’Irish Sass is out of the multiple stakes-placed Cactus Ridge mare Irish Ridge. She’s the fifth foal out of Irish Ridge, who is also the dam of the stakes-placed winners Irish Heroine and Irish Danzing.

“We got to Timonium every year and we bought four babies there this year. We like them, too,” Schosberg said. “This filly has really reached our expectations and beyond. The Laobans tend to want to run a little longer, they have this big relaxed long stride. It’s a real shame he died so young.”

 

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Run Curtis Run dominates Rick Violette Stakes

By Tom Law

Run Curtis Run proved he could handle moisture in the racetrack winning an off-the-turf 5-furlong maiden race in his debut at Belmont Park. The 2-year-old son of Summer Front did so again Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course and also showed he could run back on relatively short rest winning the $93,000 Rick Violette Stakes without a serious threat.

Run Curtis Run, a product of Larry Goichman’s successful New York-based breeding operation, returned in 19 days off his July 2 maiden score to win the 6-furlong Rick Violette. Jose Ortiz rode the 3 3/4-length winner for trainer Mike Maker and owners Mike Dubb and Mike Caruso.

Ortiz rode the Violette-trained New York-breds Samraat and Upstart in the Kentucky Derby and said he arrived at Saratoga “with him on my mind.”

“I wanted to win it,” he said. “I knew I had a shot. My horse ran very good first time out. It was great for me to win the race named after him, especially with his family here. I have a lot of good memories with him. I rode my first Kentucky Derby for him with Samraat and I rode my second Kentucky Derby for him on Upstart.

“He gave me great opportunities at a very young age. He believed in me. He knew I was up and coming and that meant a lot to me that he believed in me at that point in my career.”

The Rick Violette was part of the all-day inaugural New York Thoroughbred Aftercare Day hosted by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc., New York Racing Association and New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association.

Run Curtis Run’s career is just starting, and in a promising way.

He dueled for the lead with Surprise Boss before wearing down that foe late to win his debut as the even-money favorite in a field of seven. Maker breezed Run Curtis Run a half in :47 on the Saratoga main track July 17, fastest of 139 at the distance that morning, the day after he entered the colt in the Rick Violette.

Run Curtis Run didn’t face a serious challenge from Surprise Boss, also running back in 19 days, or the other two runners left in the field after Maker scratched Barese, in the early stages. Ready A. P., a daughter of More Than Ready taking on males for Christophe Clement, applied some pressure early while Run Curtis Run clicked off the opening quarter-mile in :22.77.

Run Curtis Run continued to lead by a half-length from Ready A. P. through a half in :46.12, shrugged off that rival into the stretch and opened up. Run Curtis Run flew past the eighth pole 3 ½ lengths in front and extended it another quarter-length more on the wire with Ready A. P. second by a neck from 7-5 favorite Coinage. Surprise Boss trailed throughout and finished fourth. Run Curtis Run won in 1:12.48.

“He has some natural speed and with him drawing the inside post, it wasn’t that hard to figure out in a small field,” Maker said of the strategy.

“I broke quite well and he was fast out of there, so I didn’t have to ask him for a lot,” Ortiz said. “He put me on the lead and I was very happy with that. I had the rail and I wanted the lead. He was going nice and relaxed in the first part of the race and when I asked him to go, he was there for me. All credit goes to Mike, who had him ready, and the guys at the barn.”

Foaled at Edition Farm in Hyde Park, Run Curtis Run is the sixth foal out of the stakes-winning Grade 3-placed Forest Wildcat mare My Magic Moment. Bred in New York and raced by Goichman, My Magic Moment earned $149,813 during three seasons, winning the Missy Moo I Love You Stakes and finishing third in the Grade 3 Miss Grillo Stakes in 2008 and placing in two stakes in 2009.

Goichman, through consignor Indian Creek, sold Run Curtis Run for $45,000 to Sean S. Perl Bloodstock LLC at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale.

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Americanrevolution blasts New York Derby field

By Tom Law

Fasig-Tipton rolled out the catalog for its Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale Monday morning and by the afternoon the cover needed an update after 2018 graduate Americanrevolution stormed to victory in the $150,000 New York Derby at Finger Lakes.

The seventh most expensive horse sold at that year’s Saratoga New York-bred sale on a bid of $275,000 from China Horse Club and Maverick Racing, American Revolution won the New York Derby less than a month after breaking his maiden going 6 furlongs at Belmont Park. The son of Constitution won the 1 1/16-mile New York Derby by 7 1/4 lengths under Luis Saez, who made the trip west from Saratoga Race Course for trainer Todd Pletcher and owner WinStar Farm.

The 3-5 favorite in the field of six – reduced with the scratches of Devious Mo and Here’s Waldo – Americanrevolution improved to 2-for-3 with the victory. He finished fourth, behind eventual Grade 1 winner Mandaloun and stakes-placed three-time winner Bob’s Edge, in his debut against open company last October at Keeneland.

Saez kept Americanrevolution in third early while John Davila Jr. took an aggressive approach aboard Purple Hearted, leading the field through strong early splits of :23.12 and :46.72 for the opening half-mile. Lobsta, third last time out in the Mike Lee Stakes for trainer Gary Sciacca, tracked in second around the first turn and into the backstretch.

Purple Hearted continued to lead past 6 furlongs in 1:11.75, left Lobsta on the far turn but couldn’t hold off Americanrevolution, who went by in a flash turning for home. Saez shook the reins, tapped the chestnut colt a few times left handed and hand rode to the wire for the clear win. Purple Heart held second, 5 ¾ lengths ahead of Lobsta with longshot Jaa Mode fourth. Americanrevolution won in 1:45.19

Bred by Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding and foaled at Irish Hill Century Farm in Stillwater, Americanrevolution is the second foal out of the winning Super Saver mare Polly Freeze. Out of the Strike the Gold mare Elusive Gold, Polly Freeze is a half-sister to Korean champion Cheongdam Dokki, graded stakes winner and $493,367-earner Gouldings Green and stakes winner Filare L’Oro, the dam of multiple graded stakes winner Silver Dust and Grade 3 winner Forza Di Oro.

Hertrich bought Polly Freeze in foal to Wicked Strong for $75,000 at the 2016 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. She’d previously sold as a yearling for $155,000 at the 2014 Keeneland September sale. Her first foal, the Kentucky-bred Wicked Strong filly Text Dont Call, had made three starts in Southern California when Americanrevolution went through the Saratoga sales ring, placing twice. She eventually won two of 16 starts and earned $42,109.

Polly Freeze’s third foal, the New York-bred Hard Spun colt named Bold Journey, sold for $80,000 to McMahon & Hill Bloodstock, agent, at this year’s OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale. Polly Freeze is also the dam of a Kentucky-bred yearling filly by Collected and was bred to Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso last year.

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Rinaldi leads all the way in Grade 3 Forbidden Apple

By Tom Law

Jim Bond calls Rinaldi a “one-banjo monkey.” He also calls him “miraculous.”

Both seem apropos and Friday at Saratoga Race Course the latest chapter of the improbable New York-bred gelding went in the book. Rinaldi, near death less than two years ago after suffering an injury after a routine training session, became a graded stakes winner in the Grade 3 Forbidden Apple doing it his way on the lead. One might guess just like a one-banjo monkey.

“Amazing horse,” Bond said on the way to saddle a runner in the finale after a two-win day that also include a score with Giacosa in the third, a 1 1/16-mile turf optional.

Rinaldi and Giacoso race for the family’s Bond Racing Stable, which also includes a few partners. Luis Saez rode both winners, along with Absolute Love in the fifth, to give him a meet-leading six two days into the 2021 season at Saratoga.

Rinaldi started his 2021 Saratoga season the same way he’s done the last two. He won a state-bred optional on the grass and the West Point Stakes on Saratoga Showcase Day – both on the lead – during the spectator-free 2020 meet and the Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Stakes to start the 2019 season. He earned a trip to the Grade 3 Saranac after the Stallion Stakes and finished fourth, beaten just 1 1/4 lengths in his lone graded stakes start before Friday.

Bond regrouped after that race and started to train Rinaldi for a fall campaign at Belmont Park and Aqueduct. In late September after breezing for the first time after the Saranac, Rinaldi stepped on a nail walking back to Bond’s private barn on Gridley Street from the Oklahoma Training Track. Infection set in and the gelding was sent to Rood and Riddle Saratoga on Henning Road, where a team led by Dr. Kathryn Dern went to work.

“It was miraculous,” Bond said. “He was close to death. We had to flush and flush and flush. He was at the hospital and Dr. Kathryn Dern, she’s in Kentucky now but she was at Rood and Riddle (Saratoga) then. Sweetheart. She saved his life.”

Bond said the process involved “a fusion where they just keep flushing the coffin joint.”

Eventually Rinaldi recovered, left Rood and Riddle and earned the remainder of the year off at Jim and Tina Bond’s Song Hill Thoroughbreds in nearby Mechanicville. Bond gives most of his stable, and especially his turf horses, the winter off and Rinaldi started up late last winter and spring.

“We got him back … (and) had him ready for the beginning of April and then the world shut down,” Bond said, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic that halted racing in New York for a significant period last spring.

Rinaldi made up for lost time and factored in Bond’s strong Saratoga meet, where the stable won 12 of 40 starts with eight seconds and earned $619,218 in purses. Rinaldi finished the year with a sixth in the Mohawk Stakes on Empire Showcase Day at Belmont Park and a close fourth against open company in the Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct.

Bond didn’t run Rinaldi during the Belmont spring-summer meeting, where the stable went 0-for-35, after a second in the Dangers Hour Stakes in early April at Aqueduct. He tried to run Rinaldi in the Kingston Stakes but heavy rain forced it to the main track.

“He’s a good horse, he’s a better two turn horse, I’ve always thought it,” Bond said. “We got rained off on New York-bred day and I just thought, ‘let’s regroup, bring him here and get him ready. See what happens. See if we can get two starts here.’

“Luis, I don’t have to say anything to him. He just puts him where he’s got to be. Hopefully I did my job. The horse is just all heart. He’s a cool horse.”

Rinaldi took Saez to the lead from the break and they carved out easy splits of :24.31 and :48.83 for the first half-mile under light pressure from longshot Made You Look with Value Proposition and Logical Myth just behind. Rinaldi used his speed on the bend to open up on the far turn and led through 6 furlongs in 1:12.70

Saez kept him close to the inside turning for home and they opened up 2 lengths in midstretch on the way to win in 1:35.70 for the mile on the firm inner course. Value Proposition held second, a neck in front of Delaware to give trainer Chad Brown a 2-3 finish.

“We tried to have a good break and control the pace and everything went to plan,” Saez said. “He likes this track. This is like his backyard. When I turned for home, I had a lot of horse. I let him run and he gave me a pretty fast kick. In the end, I had a feeling he was going to get there, and he did.”

Rinaldi improved to 4-for-5 on the grass at Saratoga, each of the wins on the inner turf, and 5-for-11 overall with $429,990 in earnings.

“He loves this course,” Bond said. “And he’s a good miler. He’s a miler. Two turns with a small horse, small and compact, kind of steals away on the turns. You don’t realize it and all of sudden he’s got another length on you. He’s that quick.”

Bred by Barry Ostrager and sold to Bond for $5,000 as a weanling out of the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga October mixed sale, Rinaldi is the ninth foal out of the winning Dynaformer mare Dynamite Cocktail. A Kentucky-bred who raced exclusively at Woodbine, Dynamite Cocktail is also the dam of Canadian champion and $598,028-earner Hollinger, the Bond-trained stakes-placed and $250,000 yearling Hot and Spicy and Aviva’s Pride, whose two foals include stakes winner Lake Sebago.

The Bonds named the gelding for an Italian wine – as they often do – and subsequently learned he has a neighbor with the same last name.

“We named him after a really good wine and then we became really good friends,” Bond said. “Basically we cut them in for 10 percent and the other partner is Craig Allen from All-Star Wines. He’s been a dear friend for a lot of years. He beat stage-four cancer a few years ago, came to me and begged me to buy horses. I said ‘we’ll lose our friendship. I don’t want to lose our friendship.’ It really does, it’s sad but it happens.

“Short story, the horse was like seven days away from racing and I’m like ‘ok, let’s put them in.’ And he had Giacosa today, they’re 10 percent owners in her too. This partnership thing, we’ve put over 70 people into the partnership. It’s so much fun. All these new people that just didn’t experience the game before. Then we had a great Saratoga, which never hurts. Aqueduct was fair. Belmont I thought I was going to die.”

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