Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from a huge Labor Day racing weekend highlighted by a pair of $1 million races, the FanDuel Racing Pacific Classic Stakes Saturday at Del Mar and the Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes Sunday at
Dean Reeves cuts a well-known figure at the racetrack. He is tall, affable, and always gives a great interview when the horses of Reeves Thoroughbreds win. With his wife, Patti, by his side, they have won major races including Mucho Macho Man’s brave victory by a nose in the 2013 Breeders Cup Classic.
Highland Falls, a Brad Cox-trained Godolphin homebred turned-in a decisive victory in the $1 million Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes going 1 1/4 miles on Sept.
Mixto always showed trainer Doug O'Neill that he had ability, but the 4-year-old colt had never put it together enough to stand in the winner's circle more than once in 13 prior tries.
At odds of 31-1 in the $500,000 Grade 2 Flower Bowl Stakes that attracted some of the best distance turf fillies and mares to Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, Aug.
