Blind Spot wins Our Expensive Peggy for Joseph

HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida,– Edgard Zayas produced a stalking experience aboard 8-5 favourite Blind Spot to ship the characteristic US$65 000 Our Expensive Peggy Stakes for Barbadian coach Saffie Joseph Jr at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Florida on Saturday.

Going a mile and 70 yards in race 9, the 28-year-old Puerto Rican mixed with the roan to beat the two-year-old fillies by three-quarters of a size in a time of 1 minute, 32.21 seconds.

For Joseph, the win was one in every of two on the 11-race card staged on the penultimate weekend of the marketing campaign.

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His different win got here courtesy of one other Zayas effort in race three, this time the proficient rider steering favourite Tamarindo to a three-quarter size win over the three-year-old and upward maiden fillies and mares.

Going a mile and sixteenth, 10-1 alternative Cross Fleet made the working whereas being chased by longshots Gyurza and Ines’s Hat, with Zayas sitting Tamarindo simply off the tempo.

Tamarindo made wonderful progress on the flip, picked up the working approaching the sixteenth pole, after which held off her challengers within the lane.

Within the characteristic, Zayas broke Blind Spot sharply however then reined her in, permitting By way of By way of, Jellybean, and Dropkick Queen to battle for the lead by the primary quarter run in 24.21 seconds.

By way of By way of then took the sphere to the half in 49.69 with Stephanie’s Allure becoming a member of the fray on the entrance however Zayas nonetheless took Blind Spot in hand.

Zayas attacked approaching the flip and was third behind the dueling By way of By way of and Stephanie’s Allure on the high of the stretch. He discovered an additional gear, nevertheless, and the filly breezed previous the leaders to achieve the wire first.

Joseph holds an enormous lead within the trainers’ championship and can be topped champion of the summer season marketing campaign subsequent weekend.

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