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NATIONAL ROUNDUP : Sky Beauty Extends Her Stakes Streak to Five

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<i> From Associated Press</i>

Sky Beauty won her fifth consecutive stakes Sunday, the $100,000-added Rare Perfume for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park.

Sky Beauty covered the mile under Mike Smith in 1:35 3/5 and returned $2.60, $2.20 and $2.10 after winning by 1 3/4 lengths.

In the co-featured $100,000-added Jamaica Handicap, Mi Cielo won by 2 3/4 lengths over longshot Prospector’s Flag. Cherokee Run was another 1 3/4 lengths back in third in the field of eight 3-year-old colts.

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Ridden by Smith, who won all four weekend stakes at Belmont, Mi Cielo covered the mile in 1:35 1/5 and returned $7.00, $4.40 and $3.20.

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Grand Jewel, the only 3-year-old in the field, scored a 1 1/4-length victory in the $110,700 Fayette Stakes at Keeneland.

Ridden by Jerry Bailey, the Java Gold colt ran the 1 1/8-miles in 1:46 4/5 to equal the stakes and track record set by Good Command in 1987.

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