On 8-1 Affirmed Success in the Mile: "He's a tough knocker; a mile is about his limit.
With Jorge Chavez riding, Affirmed Success ran the mile on the turf in 1 34 flat and paid $4.90 for a $2 bet to win.
Affirmed Success was second in the field of six, with Summer Note another three and three-quarters lengths behind in third.
Forbidden Apple stalked Affirmed Success until they were joined by Johnny Dollar and One Won One in the homestretch in a four-horse duel.
FINISH LINES Laissezaller was pulled up on the backstretch with an injured right hind pastern bone and was euthanized.... Affirmed Success, an 8-year-old gelding, surpassed $2 million in earnings after defeating the long shot Voodoo by a length to win the Grade I Carter.
Richie Schosberg, who trains Affirmed Success for Albert Fried Jr., explained the transition in these words: "After he lost two Breeders' Cup Sprints in a row, we decided that the only alternative was to put him on the turf and see if he could make the Breeders' Cup Mile".
Affirmed Success, last year's winner of the Cigar Mile and a $1.5 million earner, was boxed on the rail in the stretch and had to scramble outside in an effort that came up a length and three-quarters short of the winner and a neck shy of the second-place Peeping Tom.
But if you think about creating economic value in a narrow way, if you don't understand the broader and more subtle and longer-term influences on the ultimate sustainability of affirmed success, you can get into a situation where that profit really does come at the expense of society.
The 35th and final stakes of the meet, the Forego, proved a runaway success for Affirmed Success, the 4-year-old son of Affirmed trained by Richie Schosberg.
He rode Hidden Lake, who was named champion older female in 1997, and the hard-knocking stakes winners Affirmed Success, Volga and Tenski, to name a few.
Left Bank, the 2-1 fadedito, fifth to fifth after contesting a fast half-mile of 44.79 seconds with Affirmed Success, who finished fourth.
