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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Graham Motion and Keri Brion won multiple races

FAIR HILL, Md.--Graham Motion won seven races while Keri Brion won four and Michel Matz won one during the past months.

No Show Sammy AdamCoglianeseNo Show Sammy Jo (GB) (Photo by Adam Coglianese)All three trainers are based at the Fair Hill Training Center.

Motion's wins  included two stakes, an allowance and four maiden special weights while Brion's included two maiden special weights and two claiming races and Matz won a maiden claimer.

Newstead Stables' No Show Sammy Jo (GB)  won the $125,000, 1 3/8 mile Via Borghese Stakes for fillies  and mares 3 and up  on the turf by 5 3/4 lengths at Gulfstream Park on Christmas Eve.

The 5 year old mare saved ground off the pace, advanced three wide around the turn and drew off in the stretch to win comfortably.

No Show Sammy Jo's win ran her career totals to six wins and three seconds from 13 starts, including three stakes wins, and $503,225 in earnings.

Head of the Plains' homebred Jaxer won the !25,000, 1 mile Notebook Stakes for New York bred 2 year olds on the turf by 1 length at Aqueduct on Nov. 14.

Jaxer ran seventh of 10 until put to a drive entering the stretch, closing strongly for the win.

Jaxer had previously won a maiden race at Belmont after finishing eighth and then second in his first two races. 

 

MOTION saddled Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Swgoolam's One Strike (SAF) to win a $59,000, 1 mile Allowance Optional Claiming race by 5 1/4 lengths at Gulfstream on Dec. 26.

His Maiden Special Weight winners included Wertheimer and Frere's homebred Alakan in a $51,615, 1 1/16 mile, 2 year old  turf race b 2 lengths at Laurel on Nov.9, and Sierra Thoroughbreds' Siouxse in a $85,000, 1 1/16 mile, 2 year old filly race on the turf by  3 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Nov, 15.

H0pe Jones' homebred Cruise the Nile  won a $56,000, 1 mile turf race for 3 year olds and up by  2 1/12 lengths at Gulfstream on Dec. 19, and Alex Campbell's homebred Brat Pack won a $10,000, 1 1/16 mile, 2  year old race by a neck at Gulfstream on Christmas Eve.

Brion saddled Damchu Stables' homebred Unmizaken to win an $80,000, 6 furlong Maiden Special Weight for NY-bred 2 year old fillies by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Nov. 22.

Brion then ran her back in the New York Stallion Sire Stakes on Dec. 6 at Aqueduct in which she finished fourth.

Paul and Molly Willis, Rising Sun Racing Stables and Con Errico's Margarita Molly won an $80,000.1 mile Maiden Special Weight for NY-bred fillies by 5 3/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Dec. 26.

Margarita Molly tracked the pace, went to the lead on the turn, drew away in the stretch and was eased to win as much the best.

Brion also saddled two winners owned by Michael Foster at Laurel on Dec. 19.

His Rumint won an $18,0640, 5 1/2 furlong Claiming race for fillies and mares 3 and up by 1 1/2 lengths, and his Noradi won a $23,720 1 1/16 mile Maiden Claiming race by 16 1/4 lengths.

Matz saddled Runnymoore Racing's On the Beam to win a $24,728, 5 1/2 furlong Maiden Claiming race for 2 year old fillies by 3/4 length at Penn National on Nov. 12.   

 

 

 

 

 

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