Evita Argentina wins feature at Hollywood Park. November 17th, 2008
Evita Argentina wins feature at Hollywood Park.
Evita Argentina rallied from eighth at the top of the stretch to win Sundays $111,100 Moccasin Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths at Hollywood Park.
Ridden by Tyler Baze, Evita Argentina covered seven furlongs in 1:21.80 and paid $14.80, $5.80 and $3.40.
Mi Chiamano Mimi returned $3.40 and $2.60, and Palacio de Amor paid $3.60.
Evita Argentina was 11th entering the far turn and only had three fillies behind her when she headed for home.
Me and this filly click, Baze said. Shes straightforward and gives you what shes got. They were going fast and this filly was cool as a cucumber. Shes special to me and I really love her. Shes just awesome.
The victory, worth $71,100, increased Evita Argentinas career earnings to $204,900, with three wins in five starts.
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National Pride wins Big As Pass the Tab Stakes.
National Pride beat Vacation by a nose Sunday in the $74,900 Pass the Tab Stakes for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct.
The chestnut colt improved to 4-for-6 with his first stakes victory. Eibar Coa was aboard for trainer Saeed bin Suroor as National Pride, the 8-5 favorite, paid $5.50, $2.80 and $2.30. Vacation returned $4.30 and $2.80. Z Humor paid $2.80 to show.
Time was 1:37.48 for the one mile. The race, originally scheduled for the turf, was shifted to the main track rated good.
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Good Night Shirt defends steeplechase title.
Good Night Shirt completed a perfect season by winning the Colonial Cup Steeplechase for the second year in a row on Sunday.
The 7-year-old Good Night Shirt edged Preemptive Strike by a neck to run his record to 5-for-5 in 2008. The win all but assured Good Night Shirt a second straight steeplechase championship.
Good Night Shirt trailed the field early in the 2 3/4-mile, 17-fence race, but started closing in on the 10-year-old Preemptive Strike on the turn for home. As the field reached the next-to-last fence, jockey Willie Dowling started to make his move, taking Good Night Shirt to the inside, closing the gap to about two lengths.
Preemptive Strike would keep a slim lead at the last fence and held it down the stretch run. Dowling used an outside-inside move and was able to overtake the race leader and jockey Jody Petty at the wire.
I thought, jumping the last (fence) that Preemptive Strike had me. I didnt think that we would get by him, Dowling said.
Good Night Shirt, through his last races has just kind of killed everybody. Today, I didnt think that going into the last, that he was going to get it done, trainer Jack Fisher said. I thought he was done.
Best Attack was third, followed by Dark Equation and Pleasant Pick.