When favored eightyfiveinafifty
blew the first turn of the Whirlaway Stakes, he left a wide open race for the other four entrants. Philip J. Messina’s Peppi Knows
took full advantage of the opportunity. Already a seasoned stakes
performer–he won last year’s Finger Lakes Juvenile Stakes and ran
second to Buddy's Saint
in the 2009 Remsen Stakes (gr. II)–the bay gelding nailed down his
first two-turn stakes victory in a manner as workmanlike as
Eightyfiveinafifty’s was erratic
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