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Wander Mom Finds the Front in My Charmer

Wander Mom, third in the My Charmer Handicap (gr. IIIT) last year, was in control of Saturday's running at Calder, taking the lead within the first quarter mile of the 1 1/8-mile Grand Slam I turf event and hanging on strongly at the end.

 Saturday, December 07, 2002

Band Is Passing, Babae Top Calder's Grand Slam

The Calder racing season hits high gear Saturday with the track's first of two Grand Slam stakes programs. Band Is Passing, Babae, Two Item Limit, Volga and Tour Of The Cat are among the marquee names that will run in the four stakes worth $100,000 each, three of them graded events.

 Wednesday, December 04, 2002

Aqueduct Race Report: Beautiful Babae

Chilean-bred Babae wins back-to-back renewals of the Athenia Handicap.

 Saturday, November 09, 2002

Babae Returns in Aqueduct's Athenia Handicap

Joseph Platt Jr.'s Babae, the likely favorite for Saturday's $100,000 Athenia Handicap (gr. III) for fillies and mares, is poised to capture back-to-back runnings of the 1 1/6-mile turf feature at Aqueduct.

 Thursday, November 07, 2002

Babae Draws Away in Violet Handicap

Babae and jockey Jorge Chavez wore down pacesetter Platinum Tiara before drawing off to a three-length win in the $150,000 Violet Handicap (gr. IIIT) at the Meadowlands on Friday night.

 Friday, September 20, 2002

Tates Creek Tops 12 Entered for Noble Damsel

Twelve horses have been entered for Saturday's $100,000
Noble Damsel (gr. III) for fillies and mares at one mile on the turf at Belmont Park, but that many are not likely to run.

 Thursday, September 19, 2002

Stylish, Babae Favored in Violet at Meadowlands

The Violet Handicap (gr. IIIT) at the Meadowlands Friday night has drawn an overflow field of 16 to compete in the 1 1/16-mile turf event for fillies and mares, 3-years-old and upward.

 Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Tates Creek Wins Diana by a Nose

Juddmonte Farm's Tates Creek nipped favored Voodoo Dancer by a short nose in a furious stretch battle to claim the $500,000 Diana Handicap (gr. II) Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.

 Saturday, July 27, 2002

'The Frankel Show' Returns for Test, Diana

Edmund Gann's You figures to be tough in the Test Stakes (gr. I) for 3-year-old fillies going seven furlongs. In the Diana Handicap (gr. IIT) for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on the turf, trainer Bobby Frankel will saddle Beefeater Baby and Tates Creek.

 Thursday, July 25, 2002

Babae Holds Off Tates Creek in Just a Game

Babae, in her second start of the year, sat second behind early leader Penny Marie, then took the lead and held off a late challenge to win the Just a Game Breeders' Cup (gr. III) Saturday at Belmont.

 Saturday, June 08, 2002

South American-Breds Take Both Divisions of Athenia

Brazilian-bred Verruma tracked the early pacesetters, then rallied through the stretch to win her division of the $137,875 Athenia Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park Friday. Chilean-bred Babae, who Verruma beat in a June allowance race at Belmont, won the second division.

 Friday, October 26, 2001

Babae Needs Top Form in Noble Damsel

In the $100,000 Noble Damsel (gr. IIIT) Saturday at Belmont Park, Joseph Platt Jr's Babae has been in top form and will need to stay there to best a competitive field of fillies and mares going one mile on the turf.

 Thursday, September 20, 2001

Penny's Gold Edges Babae in Ballston Spa

Overbrook Farm homebred Penny's Gold rallied from fourth to win Sunday's $200,000 Ballston Spa Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. IIIT) by three-quarters of a length over Babae at Saratoga.

 Sunday, August 12, 2001

Gino's Spirits Tops Noble Damsel

Peter Bradley and Thomas VanMeter II's Gino's Spirits saved ground along the inside and rallied through the stretch to win the $111,200 Noble Damsel Handicap (gr. IIIT) by 2 3/4 lengths Saturday at Belmont Park.

 Saturday, September 30, 2000

Johnson Saddles Two in Noble Damsel

Hall of Fame trainer Philip Johnson will saddle two fillies in the $100,000 Noble Damsel Handicap (gr. IIIT) Saturday at Belmont Park, including Storm Dream, the lone 3-year-old in the field.

 Friday, September 29, 2000

Storm Dream, Fictitious Head Noble Damsel Probables

Boiling Spring Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. IIIT) winner Storm Dream and Fictitious, winner of the De La Rose Handicap (gr. IIIT), head the six horses listed as probable for the $100,000 Noble Damsel Handicap (gr. IIIT). The one-mile turf race for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up will be run Saturday at Belmont Park.

 Sunday, September 24, 2000