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Blacktype outlasts Kharafa to take Oceanport Stakes
- Updated: July 31, 2016
6:25 PM ET
Blacktype, fifth in each of his first two tries at the Grade 3 stakes level since arriving from France in the fall of 2014, broke through for his first stakes victory when he outbattled Kharafa in deep stretch to narrowly prevail in Sunday’s Grade 3, $158,500 Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Sixth after the first six furlongs of the 1 1/16-mile turf race went in 1:14.38, the 5-year-old Blacktype ($7.60) launched a four-wide bid on the turn for home under Joe Bravo, pulled within a length of Kharafa at the eighth pole, and got up by a neck. The …
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