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booth He expanded his victory to four races, earning his third consecutive Triumph a popular front running score on Saturday with a popular third-year junior year, $150,000. Maryland Sprint At Pimlico.
Trained by Hall of Fame Steve Asmussen and riding on the 2024 apprentice, his son Eric, Eclipse Award-winning Booth ($3.80), completed the distance at 1:10.39 on the main track rated main track. Each victory during his streak was front-end by the length of the 8 3/4 combination.
This was the fourth victory of the Maryland sprint for Steve Asmussen, who previously won Group 1 winner Switzerland (2018) and fellow billionaires New York Central (2019) and Jackson Traveler (2022).
Booth agreed and broke, tied to a simple lead with mild pressure outside from grade No. 1 stakes winner Epic Ride, posting 23.30 and 45.99 seconds of minutes. The Epic Ride tried to challenge it with the stretch top, but the booth swayed and sprinted into transparent to win by length under the hand ride.
The Celtic candidates and SS Sinatra completed the finishing order. After a problematic break, the glory of the concrete was not injured. According to a statement from Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. to Gabby Gaudet on Fanduel TV, the horses in the adgacent stall acted, concrete glory turned their heads and could not see the gates open due to outwardly eye inflammation. He lived, bolted to the left, went back to the right, never placed in the race.
The Prince of Jericho and ninethrentmaddie were hurt.
Booth, a $225,000 boy training purchase in March 2023, was improved to 5:4-0-0 for the 4-year-old season of owners William Heirigbrod, Corinne Heirigbrod, Jackpot Farm and Whisper Oaks Farm. His bull, the big billionaire Mitol, was the 2019 champion male sprinter after winning the 2018 Chick Lang at Pimlico and winning fourth-year races, including the Met Mile and Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
“I was worried how hard it was to ship him out after his last three runs,” Steve Asmussen said after the race. “But when he broke like that, he was himself. There was a horse that was pretty fast there. But when he broke like that, it’s pretty clear that in his final race he was pretty hard enthralled from him more than anything before him.
“He broke so well, he left about three jumps from there and raised his ears and I knew they were in trouble,” Eric Asmussen said of the booth race. “He was in cruise control overall. He’s fast, really fast. When I went in the first quarter at 23, he did so easily, so I felt like I was in the morning gallop with him.
The victory was a family event, with three generations of the Asmussen family, son Eric Riding, and the winner circle. “I look back on it beautifully,” Asmussen said. “The best question I was asked was, “When you let him go, are you a parent or a trainer?” It’s when I’m proud of it, I’m very proud of it. that. “
