Scat Daddy Takes Sanford; Bernardini Favorite To Win Jim Dandy S.

Favorite Scat Daddy blasted to the front with a late run and beat Teuflesberg by a neck Thursday to give trainer Todd Pletcher his third career victory in the $150,000 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

It was the second stakes win in a row at the Spa for Pletcher, Saratoga’s leading trainer for the past four years.

Meanwhile, on Saturday’s Jim Dandy Stakes, 3-year-old colt Bernardini makes his first start since winning the May 20 Preakness Stakes, a race everyone remembers as the one in which Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro shattered his right hind leg in the opening strides.

Bernardini went on to win the Preakness with an impressive performance that was all but forgotten in the wake of Barbaro’s fight for survival, which continues at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.”

With three victories after a career-opening defeat, Bernardini was installed as the 4-5 morning-line favorite Thursday in a six-horse field going 1 1/8 miles. The winner’s share of the $500,000 purse is $300,000.

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