Search Results Outslugs Miss Brazil In Busher
Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 3:50 pm |
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Updated: March 6, 2021 at 6:22 pm
Search Results (Flatter) gave her sire a second 3-year-old stakes winner Saturday, outgaming pacesetting
Miss Brazil (Palace Malice) in the final furlong to take Saturday s $250,000 Busher S. at Aqueduct and earning 50 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks in the process.
Sent off an easy-in-the market 2-1 second favorite after touching 3-2 early on, Search Results was put into the race by Javier Castellano and took up pace-pressing duties from second as Miss Brazil led them along through controlled splits of :24.53 and :49.64. The duo raced side-by side past the quarter-pole, as they began to get away from their four rivals and clearly had the race between them as they entered the final eighth of a mile. Shoulder to shoulder into the last half-furlong, Miss Brazil dug in determinedly, but Search Results–racing on her incorrect lead–was i
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