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Arlington | Posted 8/8/2009, 7:35 pm
Gio Ponti shines in Million win
By Marcus Hersh
Four-Footed Fotos
Gio Ponti wins Saturday's Arlington Million by 1 1/4 lengths under jockey Ramon Dominguez.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - There must be a ceiling to Gio Ponti's ability somewhere up there. But after his scintillating 1 1/4-length victory in the 27th Arlington Million on Saturday at Arlington Park, it's hard say just where that ceiling sits.
"There's no telling how good he is," jockey Ramon Dominguez said.
Well, let us endeavor to enumerate the nuts and bolts of what certainly is goodness, if not greatness. Gio Ponti ($5) won his fourth Grade 1 in a row Saturday. He now has won nine of 14 starts, with earnings over $2 million. His recent Grade 1 streak encompasses races as short as one mile and as long as 11 furlongs, at venues as far apart as California and New York. Gio Ponti wins whether the turf is wet, dry, somewhere in between, or not even turf. Since he won over Santa Anita synthetic last winter, his connections are turning over the possibility of the Breeders' Cup Classic. His win in the Million, a Breeders' Cup Win and You're In race, earned him a guaranteed berth in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 7.
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Arlington | Posted 8/8/2009, 7:35 pm
Gio Ponti shines in Million win
By Marcus Hersh
Four-Footed Fotos
Gio Ponti wins Saturday's Arlington Million by 1 1/4 lengths under jockey Ramon Dominguez.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - There must be a ceiling to Gio Ponti's ability somewhere up there. But after his scintillating 1 1/4-length victory in the 27th Arlington Million on Saturday at Arlington Park, it's hard say just where that ceiling sits.
"There's no telling how good he is," jockey Ramon Dominguez said.
Well, let us endeavor to enumerate the nuts and bolts of what certainly is goodness, if not greatness. Gio Ponti ($5) won his fourth Grade 1 in a row Saturday. He now has won nine of 14 starts, with earnings over $2 million. His recent Grade 1 streak encompasses races as short as one mile and as long as 11 furlongs, at venues as far apart as California and New York. Gio Ponti wins whether the turf is wet, dry, somewhere in between, or not even turf. Since he won over Santa Anita synthetic last winter, his connections are turning over the possibility of the Breeders' Cup Classic. His win in the Million, a Breeders' Cup Win and You're In race, earned him a guaranteed berth in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 7.
Read the rest:
http://www.drf.com/news/article/106224.html