Sunday, September 25, 2011

To Honor And Serve Wins Pennsylvania Derby

He also set a stakes record:
To Honor and Serve was expected to be one of the top 3-year-olds of 2011 when the season started. It took him more than nine months, but the Bernardini colt has finally lived up to that billing.
With Jose Lezcano aboard, To Honor and Serve made a sweeping move past pacesetter Rush Now at the three-sixteenths pole and cruised to a dominating 2 1/4-length victory in the Grade 2, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 24 at Parx Racing. It was the first stakes win for the chestnut colt since he bagged the Nashua and Remsen consecutively last fall at Aqueduct.
Sent off as the 8-5 favorite, To Honor and Serve easily held off a belated rally by Belmont Stakes winner Ruler On Ice, who was 3 1/2 lengths in front of third-place Rattlesnake Bridge. The final time for nine furlongs on the fast dirt track was 1:47.34, which was a new stakes record and not far off the track record set in 1974 by Selari Sprint.
Also, Future Prospect won the WinStar Kentucky Cup at Turfway Park.

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