Melatonin Locks Up Classic Spot with Determined Gold Cup Score
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Tarabilla Farms’ Melatonin clinched his second Grade 1 of the year on Saturday in the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita and earned an automatic starting spot in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 5.
The 5-year-old Kodiak Kowboy gelding found himself in a stretch battle with Win the Space late in the 1 1/4-mile dirt test at Santa Anita Park, but he gamely put the 24-1 longshot away to win by 1 1/2 lengths.