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Pleasant Home takes Distaff; Ashado third

By Jay Privman
Daily Racing Form

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Pleasant Home, who had never won a Grade 1 race and was dismissed as a 30-1 outsider in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff on Saturday at Belmont Park, roared past her opponents at the top of the stretch and turned a seemingly wide-open race into a one-sided route. She won by 9 1/4 lengths over Society Selection, who beat favored Ashado by a neck for second. That second-place photo cost Ashado enough money to deny her from overtaking Azeri as the all-time money-winning filly or mare in North ...

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