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Major Rhythm marches to victory in Stars and Stripes James Messineo's MAJOR RHYTHM (Rhythm) stalked in the middle of the track just behind the pacesetters in Sunday's $195,500 Stars and Stripes Breeders' Cup Turf H. (G3) at Arlington Park, was shaken up by jockey Earlie Fires in deep stretch and managed to get his head down on the wire to win. Trained by Edward Beam, the seven-year-old gelding ran the 1 1/2 miles on the firm turf in 2:29 4/5 as the 35-1 longshot in the eight-horse field, paying $73.40, $24.40 and $7.40. Come On Jazz (Jambalaya Jazz) was never far away from Major Rhythm during the race, just missing at the wire as the 16-1 third longest shot on the board. He gave back $15.20 and $7.40 while ending the $562.40 exacta for holding Ascertain (Ire) (Intikhab) to third by a neck. Show was worth $5.80 and completed the $2,176.80 trifecta. It was another 1 1/4 lengths back to even-money favorite Silver Whistle (Alphabet Soup), who rounded out the nice $6,741.60 superfecta (7-2-4-6). Next under the line were Watershed Event (Charismatic), Dontbotherknocking (Farma Way), Dynalympic (Dynaformer) and Dreadnaught (Lac Ouimet). Major Rhythm earned his first win since September of 2004 with this one, which is also his first graded score. The bay ran third in three stakes events prior to this race and improved his record to 46-10-6-12 with $547,140 in lifetime earnings. Bred in Kentucky by Bon Marche, he sold for $4,500 as a 2000 Keeneland January yearling and is out of the winning Specifically (Sky Classic), making him a half-brother to recent English One Thousand Guineas S. (Eng-G1) heroine Speciosa (Danehill Dancer).
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