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Beautiful run for Beautiful Bets Casa De Caballos' BEAUTIFUL BETS (Alphabet Soup) ranged up on the outside turning for home and closed strongly to annex the $128,500 Turfway Breeders' Cup S. (G3) by a neck on Saturday. Trained by Glenn Wismer, the six-year-old gray rated patiently in midpack through the early stages under Willie Martinez before putting in her winning run, finishing off the 1 1/16 miles in 1:42 3/5. The mare was disregarded at 15-1 odds and rewarded her backers with mutuels of $33.20, $11.40 and $5.80, while topping the healthy exotics of $196 (exacta), $1647.20 (trifecta) and $2391.80 ($1 superfecta). La Reason (Labeeb [GB]) was content to race well off the pace early but closed very well to garner the place, worth $4.80 and $3.40 at 4-1. Pacesetter Slew Peg (Fusaichi Pegasus) stayed on gamely in the stretch but could not match strides with the top pair late, paying $4.60 for the show at 6-1. Splendid Blended (Unbridled's Song), the 7-5 choice in the large field, had no answer late and finished off the superfecta while 5 1/2 lengths farther back. Sister Star (Langfuhr) was next and followed by Prospective Saint (Saint Ballado), Victoire Bataille (Military), Darluna (Premiership), Pentelicus Dance (Ecu) (Pentelicus) and Tappin For Gold (Pleasant Tap). Stop a Train (Devil His Due), Island Escape (Petionville) and Soul Search (A.P. Indy) were withdrawn. Beautiful Bets earned her second career stakes win in this one, first of which was graded, and upped her career line to 44-7-8-9, $365,412. Among her nine black-type top three finishes, the hard-trying mare has placed in the Shirley Jones Breeders' Cup H. (G2), Hurricane Bertie H. (G3) and Seaway S. (Can-G3). Bred in the Bluegrass State by Tri County Stables, the winner fetched a bid of $22,000 at the 2002 OBS June Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. She was produced from the El Prado (Ire) mare Summerfest and counts an unnamed yearling filly by Citidancer as a half-sister.
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