Gulfstream Park
-Bell Racing’s recently signed stakes winner Anna’s promiserunner up in the 2025 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2), he is likely to get one more start before returning to trainer Carlos David’s primary string of South Florida ahead of the 2026-2027 Championship Meet.
Just 15 minutes before David’s trained 2-year-old Stick Talk won the Palm overnight hurdle, he watched the promising 4-year-old Anna’s gate to the wire to win the Palm’s first elusive victory on Oct. 3.
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In four previous stakes attempts, Anna Promise’s best finish was second in the 2025 Park Oaks Gulfstream, an effort that convinced David and Bell Racing’s William Belford to send the daughter of Promise to the Kentucky Oaks (G1), where she finished fifth at 29-1.
David said. “He took us on a trip to the oaks, and it was great.”
Jevian Toledo teams up with Anna Promise to win the Twixt Stakes at Laurel ParkJim McCue/TMJC
After the Kentucky Oaks, Anne ran a promising third in the Monomoy Girl last June at Monmouth Park, before leaving for the rest of the year, Jan. 15. back at Gulfstream. He ran third and second in two subsequent starts at the Championship Meet, returning to the winner’s circle on May 24 at Churchill Downs.
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Earlier in Twixt, Hannah was fourth in the Sea Hulman George Memorial Race on July 11 at the Indianapolis Horseshoe. The following type answered David’s secondary string at Keeneland.
“We’re going to run it in Churchill sometime, and then we’ll see if it needs a break or if it runs here in the winter,” said David. “I think it’s just going to get better with that senior.”Gulfstream Media Relations
Laurel Park
-Blueblood filly Blackfin (IRA)Trained by the winner of the Eclipse Award for five years, he somehow slipped through the betting cracks in Saturday’s ninth race, drawn up in the furlongs and mares on the turf at one mile in the first grade.
Dam’s Blackfin One (UK)he was a European transplant who was an educator Chad Brown they turned a huge monster into the grass. Between April 18, 2018 and June 29, 2019, the sea is more than ready for five unbeaten starts, including Step 1 Matriarchae Stai Del Mar. The following year, Uni drew two Grade 1s, culminating in a victory over the males in the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) and the Eclipse Award as champion female turf.
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He won one other Grade 1 in 2020, the First Lady Stakes at Keeneland, before selling to Peter Brant’s White Birch Firm for $4.1 million as a colt prospect.
Purchased from overseas, Uni is based at King Juddmont’s European flagship, and her first baby, Blackfin, was born on Irish soil on February 18, 2022.
Blackfin received his initial training in Maryland, recording 2 years of workouts at Fair Hill for Brown before being sent to the trainer’s base at Payson Park in Florida.
Bay was not fully due until September of his 3-year-old season, finishing sixth in the 10th in a special weight maiden at Aqueduct. Until it was reborn in June of this year, Blackfin gradually improved from start to finish. He shot the board in the first two of 2026, then graduated in the special weight maiden Monmouth on September 7, his final start before Saturday’s victory.
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AGASO Luis Rivera Jr. Let Blackfin find a consistent rhythm with running between horses behind the bad guys like Let’s Dance Again moderated splits of :24.56, :49.03, and 1:13.06.
War Madam moved to the lead in the upper stretch, but Rivera put Blackfin between her rivals, and the nearest Correto did by a head in 1.36.72 on the firm turf to deny her race. Madam War finished another half-length behind. Then came Let’s Dance Again, Screen Test, favors Cozy Rosie, Fire, Finch, and Miss Picky. Gripen, Fabia, Chilling Factor, and Verdant Tones.
Blackfin paid $16.80 to win the sixth choice.
“It went exactly how he planned it,” Rivera said in the winner’s circle. “I didn’t see myself progressing in this class. I wanted to.” [Correto] to get a little closer to the pace so I could follow her and have someone good to track in front of me. He took me to the quarter pole, and at the quarter pole I let go of my horse, and there he was for me.
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Rivera was quick to complete Brown’s operation.
“Those horses that are trained here are amazing,” he said. “When you ride her, you always know you’ve got a lot of horse under you. When she saw the clearance in the stretch, she was ready to run. She was just waiting for my cock. She was completely exhausted. She crossed the wire, and I couldn’t even pull it out. She just wanted to go.”
A winner in two of five starts, Blackfin earned $72,110Dan Illman / Maryland Sports Club
Rem Park
-Trainer Steve Asmussen and his son AGASO Eric Asmussenspent the night in Oklahoma City, teaming for each wins five in the X-type card. The big night included a run of four consecutive hits.
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A big evening of winning started in the fifth race of the night with Oban ($3 to win), claiming the $10,000 stakes event at 6-1/2. From there it began to appear that Father and son Asmussen would not lose the operation again in the night, which they would repeat the victories in the next three races.
Can’t Stop Munnings ($4.40) won six furlongs in the $10,000 level claim race. The seventh race, about a mile on the turf, went to the First Player ($6) in salary. In 1980, Extra Anejo ($3.40), a graded stakes winner in 2025, earned a salary to make it four straight night wins over Asmussen. But there would be one more win before the card ended.
In the nightcap, race 10, a $7,500-grade maiden event for Oklahoma-breds at six furlongs, Crossing Roses ($6.80) finally figured things out in his eighth career effort to graduate. It provided the fifth victory of the evening for master driver and fourth win of the night for owner Steve Asmussen of Arlington, Texas.
Pass Roses notches the fifth part on Oct. 9. card at Remington Park for the father/son team of coach Steve Asmussen and driver Eric AsmussenCoady Media
After clearing the track and matching the victory, Steve Asmussen boasted 41 training wins during the first 23 nights of the season, leading the training stations by 30 over Scott Young and Austin Gustafson.
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Eric Amussen passed David Cabrera for a slight lead in the standings, 38 wins to 34.
Standing master Steve Asmussen tops the pile with 17 victories, 11 ahead of defending master Bryan Hawk and his first six.Day Dale / Remington Park
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