![]() ![]() Decorated Invader with Irad Ortiz heading to the winner’s circle. Decorated Invader wins with (11) Cadet Connolly finishing second and on the rail Vitalogy. ![]() He won by 1 ¾ lengths over the longshot, in a tight battle with Vitalogy, the colt that had come all the way from England and Ireland, seeking a berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. Loving the underdog, Cadet Connolly at 109 to 1, finishing second for trainer Teresa Connolly.īut the star of the show was Decorated Invader, who bumped with Vitalogy leaving the gate, settled in mid-pack and closed three-wide around the final turn. Local star Keep On Trucking was the well regarded at 3 to 1 after winning his first race at Woodbine by 11 3/4 lengths and the Clarendon Stakes by 7 3/4 lengths. Jamie Spencer, aboard Vitalogy, wearing the claret and gold silks of Qatar Racing. He had broken his maiden at Woodbine the previous week. And then there was Pablo Morales, all the way here to ride a 109 to 1 shot, Cadet Connelly, an $1,800 yearling purchase who had spent his time at minor tracks, with far more races under his belt.Ĭadet Connelly finished second. His fellow jockeys in the race read like the Who’s Who of jockeydom: British star Jamie Spencer was on British colt Vitalogy, trained by Joseph O’Brien, son of famed Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien Tyler Gaffalione, who won the Preakness aboard War of Will this year veteran, leading money-winner John Velazquez, on race favourite Mystic Lancelot, trained by Todd Pletcher Javier Castellano. ![]() He’d broken his maiden in his previous start at Saratoga. Ortiz, a third-generation jockey from Puerto Rico, won the $250,000 Summer Stakes on 2 to 1 shot Decorated Invader, a $200,000 yearling purchase trained by Christophe Clement. That gave Ortiz the nod as top jockey of the week on a Jockey’s Guild ballot.īut back to drizzly Woodbine, where a fine mist coated everything. He also won a third stakes race, the $200,000 Iroquois Stakes at Churchill Downs in Kentucky with the highly regarded Dennis’ Moment, winner of his first race by 10 lengths at Ellis Park on Saturday. On Sunday, he won both of the Breeders’ Cup Win-and-You’re-In races for 2-year-olds on the grass. ![]()
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