Dullahan Mows Down Hansen in Blue Grass
from bloodhorse.com: Dullahan, with big strides down the center of the racetrack, ran down champion Hansen in the late stages to win the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) by 1 1/4 lengths April 14 at Keeneland. Kent Desormeaux guided the son of Even the Score for trainer Dale Romans. He is owned by Donegal Racing.
The time of 1:47.94 for 1 1/8 miles was a new stakes record on the Keeneland Polytrack.
When last seen at Keeneland, Dullahan won the Breeders’ Futurity (gr. I) in the fall of 2011, and his brilliant run in the Blue Grass was not all that different than that come-from-behind victory. The chestnut colt was near the back of the field for much of the way while saving ground under Desormeaux, angled out near the quarter-pole, and charged through the center of stretch to collar Hansen, who had set the pace from the outset.
Dullahan, who made his season debut last month when running second to Howe Great in the Palm Beach (gr. IIIT) on the Gulfstream Park turf, will make his next stop at Churchill Downs for the May 5 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). A half-brother to 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, he is out of the Smart Strike mare Mining My Own.
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