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Echo Sound Holds Off Justinqueso by a Neck to Win the Dream Supreme at Churchill Downs

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November 14, 2026

Echo Sound, with Luis Saez aboard, edges Justinqueso at the wire to win the Dream Supreme Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Echo Sound added a fifth stakes win to her record Saturday at Churchill Downs, digging in under Luis Saez to turn back a relentless Justinqueso by a neck in the $300,000 Dream Supreme, the richest race on the Louisville track’s Saturday card.

Gabriel ‘Spider’ Duignan’s Echo Sound tracked pacesetter Mystic Lake, grabbed a narrow advantage leaving the turn, and gamely turned back a fierce challenge from Justinqueso to win Saturday’s $300,000 Dream Supreme (L) by a neck at Churchill Downs.

Ridden by Luis Saez for trainer Rusty Arnold, 4-year-old filly Echo Sound ran six furlongs in 1:10.28 to collect her fifth career stakes win. Overall, it was her seventh win in 12 career starts and the $185,000 first prize increased her lifetime earnings to $762,495.

Echo Sound won the Myrtlewood at Keeneland as a 2-year-old, and last year’s 3-year-old campaign included triumphs in the Miss Preakness (G3) at Pimlico and Victory Ride (G3) at Saratoga in back-to-back efforts. In July, she won the Regret at Monmouth Park.

On Saturday, Echo Sound broke fine from post 3 and settled behind front-runner Mystic Lake, who rattled off early fractions of :22.42 and :45.23. Echo Sound was never far from the leader’s right hip and Justinqueso sat just behind Echo Sound.

Echo Sound and Justinqueso converged on the tiring Mystic Lake around the turn and battled shoulder-to-shoulder through the stretch. Echo Sound was able to hold off the on-coming Justinqueso under a long and sustained drive.

“She’s a very nice filly and we sat a good trip,” Saez said. “Down the lane, she really dug in to not let (Justinqueso) get by.”

Echo Sound, the even-money favorite after a fourth-place finish in the Oct. 3 Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) at Keeneland last time out, returned $4.20 for the win.

Justinqueso bested Indy Bay by 7¾ lengths for second. A. Z. Wildcat and Mystic Lake completed the order of finish. Haulin Ice was scratched.

“She’s a very nice filly,” Arnold said. “After her last two starts we gave her six weeks until this race and I think that helped. Going into the race we thought (Justinqueso) was an improving filly and had a lot of respect for her. Down the lane, we know how tough it is to get by Luis on the lead.”

Echo Sound is a daughter of Echo Town out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Eagle Sound and was bred in Kentucky by Springhouse Farm, Vision TBs, Bruce Pieratt, and Patricia Pieratt.

The Dream Supreme is named after the six-time graded stakes winner who won the 2001 Humana Distaff Handicap (G2) at Churchill Downs. Trained by Bill Mott, Dream Supreme won two Grade 1 sprints in her 16-race career and earned $1,007,680 between 1999-2001.

Arctic Wolf Goes Wire to Wire to Win the $175,000 Awad Stakes at Belmont Park

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November 14, 2026

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Arctic Wolf, number 9 with Kendrick Carmouche aboard in black silks with pink polka dots, winning the Awad Stakes at Belmont Park.

Five starts at five different tracks, and Arctic Wolf keeps finding the winner’s circle. The grey son of Frosted took the field gate to wire Saturday at Belmont Park, winning the $175,000 Awad Stakes by three lengths under Kendrick Carmouche.

The Awad, run as the eighth race, was scheduled for the Widener turf course and moved to the new Tapeta track, where Arctic Wolf set fractions of :22.83, :46.00 and :57.28 before finishing six furlongs in 1:08.99. He paid $13.90 to win and earned $96,250 for owners MHM Stables LLC, Chad Calvert and John F. Goldthorpe.

Metallican finished second, a length and three quarters ahead of Riyadh Way in third. Titan Ready was fourth and More Champagne fifth.

Trained by Jack Sisterson, Arctic Wolf was bred in Kentucky by Flying B Ranch Thoroughbreds and is by Frosted out of the mare Firewolves. Carmouche said after the race that Sisterson’s instructions were simple: take the lead and do not hold back.

The Awad was Arctic Wolf’s second stakes win of the fall. He won the Speakeasy Stakes at Santa Anita on October 3 by two and a quarter lengths, and his five career starts have now come at five different tracks.