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Rowdy Irishman finished a neck ahead of Avanico, who was a neck ahead of High Card.

Rare Loss for Mack Lobell Indus was a neck ahead of Mack Lobell, who suffered his second loss in eight starts this year.

Seabreeze shot into the lead in the closing stages of the race and won easily by two lengths from Estafette, who was a neck ahead of Love in Idleness.

Dispersal, trying to win the Bluegrass for his trainer, Bud Delp, and his owners, Harry and Tom Meyerhoff, 10 years after their Spectacular Bid did it, finished nine lengths in front of Tricky Creek, who was a neck ahead of his stablemate, Feather Ridge.