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Midnight Storm keeps graded grass streak alive
- Updated: July 18, 2016
1:02 PM ET
DEL MAR, Calif. — Midnight Storm was hounded early by Bolo, challenged late from all sides by Ashleyluvssugar, Flamboyant, and Si Sage, but never relinquished the lead and bravely earned a deserved victory on Sunday in the Grade 2 $251,380 Eddie Read Stakes, marking the third straight year he has won a graded grass race at Del Mar.
Midnight Storm, now 5, won the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby at age 3, and last year won the Grade 2 Seabiscuit. His connections have tried him at distances ranging from 6-1/2 furlongs on turf to 1-1/4 miles on dirt, but it’s clear anything from a mile to 1 1/8 miles on turf is in his wheelhouse. The Read, at 1-1/8 miles, came on the heels of his first Grade 1 victory, last time out in the Shoemaker Mile.
Trainer Phil D’Amato originally was planning on skipping the Read, but Midnight Storm was so sharp following the June 4 Shoemaker Mile that he put him in the Read. That sharpness showed, as Midnight Storm would not …
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