Forte Dei Marmi Wins Northern Dancer
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Stella Perdomo’s Forte Dei Marmi showed tremendous desire in holding off his stretch-running stablemate Perfect Timber to take the $300,000 Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf, presented by VTech, Sunday at Woodbine.
Forte
Dei Marmi, a seven-year-old son of Selkirk, held on for the neck
victory in 2:28.46 for the mile and one-half distance over a ‘firm’ E.P.
Taylor Turf Course. Perfect Timber was ¾ of a length ahead of
third-place Stormy Len.
Forte Dei Marmi, trained by Roger Attfield, was ridden to his 10th career win and third straight graded stakes score by Eurico Rosa Da Sliva.
Turkish set early fractions of :25.89 and :51.56, while Forte Dei Marmi sat fourth amongst the seven-horse field.
Da
Sliva and Forte Dei Marmi began his bid and moved to second a half-mile
from the wire, but when the field turned for home, the pair engaged the
leader, Stormy Len. Forte Dei Marmi took command in the stretch and was tough as nails to score the victory.
“He's
at the best he's ever been,” said Attfield. “He's done it now three
times in a row in three different situations. He's a tough little horse
and the way he is right now, he's tough to beat. We gave him a good run
down the lane with my other horse (Perfect Timber).”
Forte
Dei Marmi returned $3.80, $2.70 and $2.10, pairing with Perfect Timber
($7.40, $4.40) for a $30.50 (2-5) exactor. A 2-5-6 (Stormy Len, $3.20
to show) triactor was worth $119.70. Irish Mission completed a $1
Superfecta (2-5-6-3) worth $307.40.
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