THOROUGHBRED RACING : Memo Goes for First at Fairplex

Memo will try to end a string of three second-place finishes when the 6-year-old gelding runs Sunday with the high weight of 122 pounds in the $150,000 Pomona Invitational Handicap at Fairplex Park.

Memo’s last runner-up finish was behind Fanatic Boy in the San Diego Handicap, a Del Mar race two months ago.

Lottery Winner is next in the weights at 120 pounds for Sunday’s 1 1/8-mile race. This is the field, in post-position order: Camp Marzio, Memo, Portoferraio, Seahawk Gold, Lottery Winner, Regal Groom, Berillon and Southern Wish.

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There will be betting today on the $200,000 Bay Meadows Handicap, with Beyton the probable favorite in the seven-horse field.

Beyton ran a strong third, losing to Bien Bien by 2 1/4 lengths, in the Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park in July, then got off to a late start and beat only one horse in the Del Mar Handicap on Sept. 5.

Also entered in today’s 1 1/8-mile grass race is Lissitki, who has won three in a row but is untested in stakes competition this year. The high weights at 114 pounds are Beyton and Have Fun, with Slew Of Damascus, Lovely One, River Traffic and Fast Cure rounding out the field.

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Bobby Frankel, trying to spring an upset today with Hawk Spell in the $750,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs, saddled Skimble there Friday for a victory in the $188,500 River Cities Budweiser Breeders’ Cup Stakes.

Hawk Spell, a French horse who has run only twice since joining Frankel at Del Mar, finished seventh in the Del Mar Derby, but was beaten by 2 1/2 lengths and was moved up to sixth after a disqualification.

Peteski, who bypassed the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in favor of the Canadian Triple Crown, is the 8-5 favorite in the Super Derby.

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At Fairplex Friday, another Frankel trainee, Senate Appointee, won the Las Madrinas Handicap. Ridden by David Flores, the 4-year-old filly scored her eighth consecutive victory. . . . Rare Form tries for his sixth consecutive victory in today’s Pomona Quarter Horse Championship Handicap. . . . Individual Style, winner of Thursday’s Gateway to Glory Stakes at Fairplex, is expected to run in the $100,000 California Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Oct. 16.