Last at the top of the stretch, Seek Gold closed from out of the clouds to steal the $844,500 Stephen Foster Handicap (gr. I) from Perfect Drift at the wire at odds of 91-1 at Churchill Downs Saturday.
Trainer Bobby Frankel, only minutes removed from Milwaukee Brew's triumph over Congaree in the Santa Anita Handicap,kicked back in the press box late on the afternoon of Mar.1,sporting a grin that seemed to utter, "Well, I hate to say I told you so".
Roses in May never ran in the Kentucky Derby, the race he was named for, which is held the first Saturday in May.
Never Retreat picked up her second grade II win of the season on the Woodbine turf when she outlasted a deep field to capture the $309,145 Canadian Stakes (Can-IIT) Sept. 18.
