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Tale of Ekati Wins Wood Memorial at Aqueduct; War Pass Places Second
Tale of Ekati, ridden by jockey Edgar Prado, won the $750,000 Wood Memorial (gr. I) by half a length over Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion War Pass on Saturday, April 5, at Aqueduct.
Trained by Barclay Tagg, Tale of Ekati raced 1 1/8 miles in 1:52.35 and paid $19, $6.30 and $3.60. War Pass with jockey Cornelio Velasquez aboard returned $3.70 and $2.60. Court Vision under jockey Garrett Gomez paid $2.40 to show.
The son of Tale of the Cat, Tale of Ekati, who is named after owner Charles E. Fipke’s Canadian diamond mine, won for the third time in six career starts and earned $450,000 from the Wood Memorial.
New York-bred Giant Moon was a neck back, fourth in Aqueduct’s Wood Memorial, followed by Anak Nakal, Spurrier, Roman Emperor, Texas Wildcat and Inner Light. First Commandment was scratched.
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[…] the pool’s final day and was the 6-1 third choice. Tale of Ekati, who upset War Pass in the Wood Memorial (GI), closed at 18-1 after his odds had floated as high as 77-1 early in the […]
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[…] the pool’s final day and was the 6-1 third choice. Tale of Ekati, who upset War Pass in the Wood Memorial (GI), closed at 18-1 after his odds had floated as high as 77-1 early in the […]