Fox Hill Farm’s Havre de Grace avenged back-to-back losses to
five-time Grade 1 winner Blind Luck after gaining the lead at the top
of the stretch and fending off a late charge from her familiar for to
win the $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion Stakes (G2) by a neck Saturday at
Parx Racing.
The three-year-old Saint Liam filly suffered consecutive narrow
defeats by Blind Luck in the Betfair TVG Alabama Stakes (G1) at
Saratoga Race Course on August 21 and the Delaware Oaks (G2) on July 10
at Delaware Park.
The Cotillion’s scenario appeared to unfold in similar fashion,
despite 7-to-10 favorite Blind Luck’s ten-pound weight difference to
her main challenger.
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