Perhaps the best race of the weekend took place in the $300,000 Grade 1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita Park. Argentinean bred 3-2 favorite Suggestive Boy continued his stellar form with a nose win over 5-1 Silentio who finished a very close second.
The main event at Santa Anita on Saturday was the $750,000 Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap for older horses willing to go 1 1/4 miles. 2011 winner of the Big Cap Game On Dude was dominant in leading gate-to-wire and recording an astounding 7 3/4 length win.
In the Grade 2 Top Flight Handicap at Aqueduct, 6-5 favorite Summer Applause looked more like the filly we saw last year when she bested the eight horse field by 2 3/4 lengths Saturday, avenging a last place finish in her only other start so far in 2013.
The $200,000 Grade 3 Tom Fool Handicap came our way from Aqueduct Racetrack Saturday. Favored at 2-1, Peter Miller trained Comma to the Top won and bettered a third place finish from just a week ago.
In the biggest race of the weekend - the Grade 3 $400,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack - it was Vyjack that made it four straight wins with an impressive 2 1/4 length win.
Santa Anita Park hosted the Grade 2 $200,000 San Carlos Stakes for older horses on Saturday. Sahara Sky posted his second straight Grade 2 win by three quarters of a length at 6-1 odds.
Data Link did what many expected on Saturday - he won the Grade 3 $150,000 Canadian Turf Stakes at Gulfstream in come-from-behind fashion. Sent off as the heavy favorite in the Canadian Turf, Data Link finished a length ahead of the field for his second straight graded stakes win.
It was Live Lively that raced to victory in the Grade 2 Davona Dales Stakes at Gulfstream on Saturday. The 2-1 second choice registered a 1 1/2 length win in her stakes debut for her third straight win overall finishing ahead of 9-10 favorite Dreaming of Julia, the reigning third place finisher in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Private Ensign was another 5 3/4 lengths back in third while Lady banks was fourth and Twice Told Tale trailed in the small field of five.
In arguably the most important race of the weekend, the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park for Kentucky Derby hopefuls, Shug McGaughey's fast improving, 5-1 second choice Orb earned his first stakes win in his first stakes start and along the way earned a valuable 50 points on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby".
