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Acclamation wires Whittingham
"We've gotten lucky the last couple of races where the speed has scratched," Warren observed, "and there wasn't a lot of speed to go with him, so we didn't have a lot of strategy to go ahead and lead the way. I told (Santiago Reyes) him that he runs so well on the turn that, when you get to the middle of that (far turn), kick and go on wherever you are. Kick and go. Make a run for it right there. He loves this course. We'll see how he comes out of this race, and there is the Sunset H. (G3) on the last day of the meet (July 18).'' The 14-1 Hyades returned $11.40 and $8 for his promising stakes debut. Brushburn (Unusual Heat) got up for third, another three-quarters of a length back, and provided $8.60 at 14-1. The $1 exotics were worth $45.60 (exacta), $393.30 (trifecta) and $1,515.80 (1-8-7-5 superfecta) with 8-5 favorite Loup Breton (Ire) (Anabaa) along for fourth. Battle of Hastings (GB) (Royal Applause [GB]), Unusual Suspect (Unusual Heat), Rendezvous (Victory Gallop), Scintillo (GB) (Fantastic Light) and Porfido (Chi) (Mash One [Chi]) rounded out the order of finish. Carry Gulch (Arg) (Thunder Gulch), who had stalked in second for the initial half-mile, faded turning into the stretch, was pulled up in distress and vanned off. Red Sun (Redattore [Brz]) and Great Siege (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar [Ire]) were withdrawn, with the latter opting for Sunday's 7TH race instead. Acclamation's scorecard now stands at 19-4-2-6, $497,048. While the four-year-old colt has really turned the corner in his past two, he had run well at the graded level previously without managing to win. Third in last year's Hollywood Derby (G1), Del Mar Derby (G2) and San Gabriel H. (G2), as well as the Strub S. (G2) earlier this season, he was fourth in the Inglewood H. (G3) two back. Acclamation was also second in the 2009 Ralph M. Hinds Pomona Invitational H. Bred by Old English Rancho, Acclamation is the last registered foal from the unraced Winning in Style (Silveyville), who is also responsible for the stakes-placed pair of Strut Your Stuff (Bold Badgett) and Always in Style (Lucayan Prince). Another of Acclamation's half-siblings, Flying in Style (Flying Sensation), is the dam of 2007 Derby Trial S. winner, Flying First Class (Perfect Mandate). This is the family of Grade 3 victor and multiple Grade 1-placed Stylish Winner (Obraztsovy), and further back, multiple stakes queen Fleet Treat (Fleet Nasrullah). Multiple Grade 1 star and $2.3 million-earner Marlin (Sword Dance [Ire]) descends from another productive branch of this female line.
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