Great Mills wins Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga
July 28, 2011SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Favored Great Mills wore down Fudgesicle in the final sixteenth-mile and won the $75,000 Quick Call Stakes for 3-year-olds by a head Thursday at Saratoga Race Course.
Julien Leparoux rode the Steve Asmussen-trained Great Mills, who ran 5 1/2 furlongs over the main turf course in 1:01.31 for his third win from five starts this season. Bug Juice was third in a field of seven.
Great Mills paid $7.20, $4.30 and 3.60 and earned $45,000 for owner Millennium Farm. Fudgesicle paid $7.10 and $4.90 and Bug Juice paid $5.90 to show.