Sam Britt and Michael House’s Gabriel Charles, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint Preview Stakes last fall, scored his first graded stakes win Saturday in the $251, 250 Del Mar Derby (G2). Far back in the early going, the 3-year-old colt by Street Hero rallied on the outside, hit the front inside the final furlong and won by a length and a quarter. Sold for $160,000 by Price Thoroughbreds at the 2012 OBS April Sale, his second stakes win leaves him 7-3-2-0 with earnings of $289,800. watch his under tack video
Michael Langford’s Dunkin Bend stalked frontrunning fellow OBS graduate Yes I’m Lucky (April ’13) in the $96,000 Sapling Stakes (G3) at Monmouth on Saturday, then ran by him in deep stretch and won by a length and a quarter. Jumping straight from a maiden win into the Sapling, the 2-year-old colt by Dunkrik is now 3-2-1-0 and has earned $117,000. He was sold to Langford for $110,000 by Wavertree Stables, Inc. (Ciaran Dunne), Agent, at the 2013 OBS April Sale. watch his under tack video