FAIR HILL, Md.--Graham Motion had five stakes winners along with eight other winners over the past month, including two stakes wins at Delaware Park and a G1 win at Saratoga.
Graham Motion (Photo by Coady Photography)Motion began his five stakes win streak on June 14 with a win in the $300,000, 1 1/16 mile, G3 Delaware Oaks for 3-year-old fillies.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Madaket Stables' Fondly won by 3 lengths after taking the early lead and kicking clear in the stretch.
Newstead Stables'' Laurelin won the $150,000,1 mile Penn Oaks Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on the turf by 1 1/4 lengths at Penn National on June.27.
Amerman Racing's homebred Test Score won the $750,000, G1, 1 1/8 mile Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes for 3-year olds on the turf at Saraoga on July 4.
Test Score ran two wide for most of the race, angled out five wide into the stretch and won by 1 1/4 lengths.
Cayton Park Stud's homebred Marksman Queen (GB) won the $250,000, G3 1 1/4 mile Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes for fillies and mares 3 and up on the turf by a head at Delaware Park on July 5.
Motion won a second stakes for Eclipse Partners and Madaket Stables with Roja in the $102,000, 5 1/2 furlong Blue Sparkler Stakes for 3-year-olld fillies on the turf, winning by 3 1/2 lengths at Delaware Park on July 12.
MOTION also saddled four allowance winners during the past month, all at Delaware Park, beginning with Madaket Stables, Bill Strauss and Hal Montz' Light Mood in a $67,200 race for 3 year olds on the turf by a neck.
Cayton Park Stud's Distant Winter (SAF) won a $46,000r, 1 mile and 70 yards ace for fillles and mares 3 and up on the turf by a neck. Shamrock Farm's End of Romance (Ire), won a $46,000, 1 mile and70 yards race for 3 year olds on the turf by 1 1/2 lengths, and Frassetto Stables' homebred Cinder Block won a $47,000, 1 mile 70 yards race for 3 year olds and up on the turf by 1 1/2 lengths.
Motion had two Maiden Special Weight winners with Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Funding in a $30,000, 6 furlong race by a neck at Presque Isle and with Wertheimer and Frere's homebred Longhi in a $70,000, 5 1/2 furlong race at Colonial Downs.
His two Claiming winners were Delayed, who was claimed by Kathleen O'Connor, in a $20,600 race by 1 3/4 lengths at Monmouth Park and with Naptown in a $41,200, 1 1/16 mile turf race by 1 1/2 lengths at Laurel.
KERI BRION saddled KMSN Stable's Like A Dream to win a $25,100, 1 mile Maiden Claiming Race for fillies and mare 3 and up by a neck at Delaware Park on June 25.
She had two winners at Laurel on June 27; R and K Racing's Big Big Star won a $24,660 Starter Optional Claiming race for 3 and up by a nos,e and Court Racing Stable's Arise My Love won a $445,600, 1 1/15 mile Maiden Special Weight for fillies and mare on the turf by 4 lengths.
RICKY HENDRIKS saddled two winners, including one for his mother Wendy, at Delaware Park.
Hunt Lane Racing's Tartan Green won a $20,000, 1 mile Maiden Claiming race for fillies and mares 3 and up by a nose on June 26, and Wendy Hendrik's Major Offensive won a $21,399 Maiden Claiming race for fillies 3 and up on the turf by 1 1/4 lengths on July 12.
MICHAEL MATZ had a stakes winner, a homebred for Michael Moran.
Corinna won the $75,000, 1 1/16 mile Lyphard Stakes for fillies and mares 3 and up by 5 3/4 lengths at Penn National on June 27.
BILLY MEISTER saddled his own Peace Out to win a $13,000, 6 furlong Claiming race by 1/2 length at Penn National on June 25.
