Good Cheer on Friday set her way to the front of Stretch to take the 151st Kentaki ox in Churchill Downs and won her seventh race to start several career.
A dirty track did not slow down the 6-5 betting favorite as he defeated 1-1/8 mi grade 1 Stax Race 1: 50.15 in 1: 50.15 in 50.15 defeated 32–1 Draxel Hill in about three lengths before a rush of 100,910.
Jockey Luis Saaz hired a 3 -year film by Madaglia D’Oro at the speed fixed by Tenma and La Kara. The good cheer in the area of 13 with backstruch was eighth. La Kara, led by the neck coming out of the final turn, briefly gives Tenma a brief way, but good cheers, sent wide by Saaz, quickly passed Bob Befurt-Primant Pilli.
Draxel Hill and 17–1 Blass the Broken also passed the front runners in front, but could not keep pace with bets five times.
It also marked the second win of Good Cheer on a wet track.
Tenma finished fourth.
The favorite paid to win $ 4.78, to place $ 3.62 and show $ 3.02. Draxel Hill paid $ 21.02 and $ 11.76, while blessed by broken $ 7.48.
Trainer Brad Cox scored his third win in one of the top races for the 3 -year -old Philus in the United States. Louisville natives first won with Monomoy Girl in 2018 and two years later with Shedresthedeville.
Godolphin, LLC, owner of Good Cheer, will also receive $ 1.5 million purse guarantee $ 930,000.
The off track was the result of a storm that was blown through Louisville on Friday afternoon. Due to its seriousness, track authorities stopped racing until it was passed. It ended late at the start of the race for about 10 minutes.
Cox, who won his only Kentaki Derby with Mandaloon in 2021, was disqualified for a failed drug test, there will be a chance for the ox-door double as he trains the final gamit in a 1-1-1/4 mile race for 3-year-old children on Saturday. Kenny McPick, another Kent of Kentki, completed Ox-Darby Double with Thorpedo Anna and Mistic Dan last year.
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