The Four Star Grad by Giant’s Causeway notched his second graded win of the year.
A bicoastal showdown looms on Saturday at Santa Anita Park as Richard Mandella’s United (Four Star Graduate) and Chad Brown’s eastern-based Rockemperor head a field of seven 3-three-year-olds and up in the Grade 2, $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes at a mile and one quarter on turf.
Talk Veuve to Me (Violence) left little to doubt as her connections will pop the champagne upon her dominating graduation and being named the newest ‘TDN Rising Star’ at Fair Grounds Sunday.
Go Noni Go, trying synthetics for the first time in her career, earned her first stakes win in Saturday’s GIII Bourbonette S. at Turfway Park. The dark bay filly angled in from her outside post and settled at the back of the field early. She began picking off rivals down the backstretch and charged into contention nearing the stretch, surging past In the Mood with a furlong to run en route to a confident tally.