Sunday Notes
Stylish Sultana, in her first start off a nine-week layoff, won the Louise Kimball Stakes for fillies and mares at Suffolk Downs on Saturday by a neck after making a big move coming out of the far turn and splitting horses in mid-stretch. It was her third victory of the year. Stylish Sultana’s last win came in the African Prince Stakes in June.
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Turfway, with its new Polytrack surface, might be the safest racetrack in America: “Comparative entries in the equine ambulance response log show a 100 percent improvement in September over entries for the 2002 and 2004 September meets” (Lexington Herald-Leader). Over the course of the month, only 11 horses had to be vanned off the track, compared to 16 the year previously. None had to be euthanized. More praise for Polytrack: “It’s no overstatement that Polytrack could revolutionize thoroughbred racing” (Courier-Journal).
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Saved from slaughter, a mare makes her second career start at the Meadowlands (Philadelphia Inquirer).
