2/28/26

  1  OP    The Razorback Hcp (GIII)

$500.000    1 1/16th Mile  Dirt   4yo&Up        Hcp Weights

A bit chalky, but the Green Card hands out the exacta as Mb Stables keeps their domination going with a one/two/four finish in Saturday’s Razorback Hcp (GIII) at OP.  Edward The Good, the nearly 3/1 post time favorite, battles his stablemate Exploration Bay to the finish, and takes the win by a neck, stopping the teletimer at 1:40.42 for the mile and a sixteenth distance.  The track was listed as Fast.  This was the 5yo chestnut gelding’s eighth win from twenty-one lifetime starts, and his first win of the ’26 season.  He now shows lifetime earnings of $2,864.420. 

Exploration Bay did all of the heavy lifting, setting the pace to deep stretch, before being overtaken by his barn buddy, and held on to take the runner up spot by a head over Asgar’s Parisian Arrow in third.  It was another length back to another Mb Stables trained foe, Stumble, taking the minor share of the purse.  Only four lengths covered the field of nine and there were no scratches. 

$2 Mutuel Prices:

Track: Fast           Time: :22⁴  :46²  1:10¹  1:40²
$1 Exacta: 7 – 5 Paid 13.70       $1 Trifecta: 7 – 5 – 3 Paid 1,766.30
Scratched: None

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