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Takeover Target charges hard to win Dixie Stakes
- Updated: May 21, 2016
7:27 PM ET
BALTIMORE — Takeover Target was last for much of the 1-1/16-mile Dixie Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, but when set down by jockey Joel Rosario in upper stretch, he delivered a furious closing charge to overtake Ring Weekend by a neck at the wire of the Grade 2 turf race.
Takeover Target, trained by Chad Brown, was making his fourth career start over a grass course listed as less than firm. He had won his career debut over a yielding course at Belmont Park in the fall of 2014, won the Grade 3 Hill Prince over a soft Belmont course last fall, and finished second over yielding turf in his most recent start, the Danger’s Hour Stakes at Aqueduct in April.
Takeover Target did not have the smoothest of trips in the …
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