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Highly Motivated wins the 2020 Nyquist Stakes on the Breeders Cup undercard
Owner Klaravich Stables and trainer Chad Brown already campaigned a winner in a Kentucky Derby qualifier in New York when Risk Taking captured the Grade 3 Withers last month. On Saturday, they will look to earn “Run for the Roses” points with stakes-winner Highly Motivated in the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham for sophomores at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The one-turn mile event is the penultimate local qualifying prep race for the Grade 1, $3 million Kentucky Derby on May 1 at Churchill Downs, awarding the top-four finishers points via a 50-20-10-5 scale. The historic event has been a stopping point for all-time greats like 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, whose final winning time of 1:33.40 was only one second and one-fifth off the world-record time set by 1967 Gotham winner Dr. Fager s 1:32.20 in the 1968 Washington Park Handicap. In 1989, Ogden Phipps Easy Goer broke Secretariat s
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Dylan Davis and California-bred Capo Kane winning the Jerome at Aqueduct
Bing Cherry Racing and Leonard Liberto s Capo Kane, a pace-setting third last out in the nine-furlong Grade 3 Withers, turns back to a one-turn mile in Saturday s Grade 3 Gotham at Aqueduct.
Trainer Harold Wyner put Capo Kane through a smart training session on Feb. 26 at Parx with the California-bred working behind a pair of horses before circling his company and completing the five-eighths breeze in 1:00.21.
“He worked real well. We had two horses set off in front of him and he sat behind them and got the dirt in his face and passed them. He finished off his work real strong,” said Wyner. “I know there s going to be a lot of speed in the Gotham and I don t think he needs to be on the lead.”
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Withers winner Risk Taking gets a post-race hug from jockey Eric Cancel
Klaravich Stables Risk Taking earned a career-best 89 Beyer Speed Figure for his triumphant stakes debut in Saturday s Grade 3, $250,000 Withers at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y.
Trained by Chad Brown, the son of Medaglia d Oro broke well from post 5 and settled in sixth in between horses before inching his way closer to the front under little asking from Eric Cancel. Nearing the sixteenth pole, Risk Taking confronted and overtook pacesetter Capo Kane en route to a 3 ¾-length win as the post-time favorite. He earned 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.