Nathan Hayden’s homebred Here Mi Song made a bold mid-race rally and gamely held off O Besos to win Saturday’s $125,000 Jeff Hall Memorial at Ellis Park.
Ellis Park will stage four $100,000 turf stakes Sunday at the Henderson, Kentucky track: the Twinspires Turf Sprint, Centennial Distaff Turf Mile, Laguna Distaff Turf Sprint, and the Henderson Turf Mile.
The first time Necker Island raced at Ellis Park, he used his time at the Pea Patch to prove he deserved a chance to test himself against the best of his generation at the classic distance.