Mysterious Night romps in Summer, Last Call upsets Natalma to earn Breeders’ Cup spots
Heavily favored Mysterious Night won the “Win and You’re In” Summer (G1) at Woodbine. Longshot Last Call broke her maiden in the Challenge race for the Juvenile Fillies Turf ( G1).
Godolphin's Mysterious Night won the $389,038 Summer (G1) by 5 3/4 lengths. Appraise finished second, 1 1/2 lengths behind. Ninetyfour Expos tired to fourth, followed by Stayhonor Goodside, Sammy Stone, and Chiseler. The Chad Brown-trained Appraised finished 1.1/5 lengths ahead of Philip My Dear. Mysterious Night's record is 6-3-1-2, $308,369. Althiqa is a North American Grade 1 winner. She is out of the Shamardal mare Mistrusting.
Last Call won the $383,006 Natalma (G1) at the distance. She was the 21-1 longest shot on the board. Last Call is the daughter of English Channel. The jockey Rafael Hernandez gave Last call a clever ride. Cairo Consort finished second and G Laurie third. Wickenheiser, Adora, Collecting Flatter, Courtly Ro, and Star Candy finished in the order of finish. X-Men Racing 2 and SF Racing’s Lastcall won her debut on July 23. On August 20 she won a Grade 1 race.
