Winning
his second stakes in his fourth start since arriving in North America,
Andreas Jacobs’ Sanagas (GER) took the lead down the stretch and won the
17th running of the $100,00 Sycamore on Thursday in track-record time before a Keeneland crowd of 6,943.
The
Sycamore, a Grade 3 race, was to be run at 1½ miles on the turf course
but because of persistent rain was moved to the main track and held at 1
5/8 miles.
Ridden
by Rajiv Maragh for trainer Graham Motion, Sanagas was the 9-5 second
choice in the Sycamore field of six 3-year-olds and older horses. He
raced in fourth place while Bim Bam led the field through fractions of
:25.05, :49.25 and 1:39.23.
Sanagas
was one of three horses on Thursday to break track records. In the
fifth race, Hammers Terror lowered the mark for the Beard Course
distance of seven furlongs and 184 feet when he won in :1:24.31. The
winner of the ninth race, Baby Afleet, lowered the 1 1/16-mile mark to
1:41.61
A
total of five track records have fallen during the first 10 days of
Keeneland’s 17-day Fall Meeting. On October 14, Applauding lowered the
six-furlong mark to 1:07.76. On Wednesday, the 3-year-old Newsdad won at
1¼ miles in 2:00.61.