3/4/23

  13   GP     The Fountain of Youth Stakes (GII) [KYD]

       $400.000             3YO              1 1/16m  Dirt             122lbs

Sometimes, it just doesn’t turn out like you think.  Gorogue Laga and Secret Sweat scratched out of The Fountain of Youth Stakes (GII) on Saturday, the post time favorite didn’t hit the board, and it took a photo to separate the slimmest of margins, as Mb Stables Fear Me Not edged past Arkansas Elite Terabyte for the narrow win, the bulk of the $400.000 purse and the additional KYD points.  It was a length back to a three-horse photo, sorting out the minor money, with Night Rider Stables’ Blue Duck taking that photo over Nakamura Stables Spirit Believer in fourth, then another head to Fractious War Of Backroads in fifth.  The final running time was 1:41.54 for the mile and a sixteenth, and the track was listed as Fast.  Only four lengths covered the field in this one. 

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