Blame Wins The Whitney Handicap at Saratoga & A Spot In The Breeders’ Cup Classic
Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Blame, ridden by jockey Garrett Gomez, won Sunday’s $750,000 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga Race Course August 7.
The Whitney Handicap is part of the Breeders’ Cup “Win & You’re In” where the winner automatically gets a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Classic starting gate.
Trained by Albert Stall, Jr., Blame covered 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.88 and paid $8.80, $3 and $2.20. Quality Road, under jockey John Velazquez, placed second and returned $2.40 and $2.10. Musket Man with jockey Rajiv Maragh aboard came in third and paid $2.50 to show.
It was the first loss this year for Quality Road, who was seeking his third straight Grade 1 victory. Sent off at as the 1-2 favorite8, the 4-year-old son of Elusive Quality had been perfect in three starts in 2010, including wins in the Grade 1 Donn Handicap and the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park.
Blame improved his horse racing record to 8-1-2 from 11 starts with earnings of $1,518,214.
“There will be one race between this and the Breeders’ Cup Classic [November 6 at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby],” said race horse trainer Al Stall. “It might be the Woodward [September 4, Saratoga], the Jockey Club Gold Cup [October 2, Belmont Park] or the Hawthorne Gold Cup. The breeders want to do the New York stuff, which I do too.”
Other horses that raced in Saratoga’s Whitney Handicap in order of finish: Haynesfield, Mine That Bird and Jardim.
Tags: Blame, Haynesfield, Jardim, Mine That Bird, Musket Man, Quality Road
"Blame Wins The Whitney Handicap at Saratoga & A Spot In The Breeders’ Cup Classic" was posted on 7 August 2010 11:57 PM under Horse Racing News, Horses, Race Tracks, Stakes Races
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