NEW YORK — Lido Palace knows how to win the Woodward Stakes. Next up is a bigger prize: the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Moving past the leaders in the final 50 yards, Lido Palace beat Gander by three-quarters of a length and won his second straight Woodward at Belmont on Saturday.

        A strong showing in the $1 million Gold Cup at Belmont on Sept. 28, and Lido Palace could find himself running in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Oct. 26 against another Frankel horse — Medaglia d'Oro.

        Lido Palace, 5, was not nominated for the BC Classic, but owners John and Jerry Amerman indicated they were considering putting up the $800,000 supplemental fee required to get their horse to the race.

        In other Grade 1 races at Belmont:

        • Imperial Gesture went wire-to-wire for a convincing 2 1/2-length victory over Select Stable's Take Charge Lady in the $250,000 Gazelle Handicap. Owned by Sheik Mohammed's Dubai-based Godolphin Racing, Imperial Gesture won for the fifth time in nine career starts. Take Charge Lady was making her first start in 3 1/2 months.

        • With Anticipation caught Balto Star about 70 yards from the wire and won the $500,000 Man o'War for the second year in a row.

Baffert nominates 13 for Kentucky Cup races

               The ninth Kentucky Cup Day of Champions on Sept. 14 at Turfway Park drew 131 nominations to the five different stakes.

        Three-time Kentucky Derby winning trainer Bob Baffert led with 13 horses nominated. Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, who has saddled the most Kentucky Cup winners, nominated seven, as did Todd Pletcher.

        The feature event — the Grade II $400,000 Kentucky Cup Classic — drew 25 nominations, led by the second- and third-place finishers of the Grade II Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap, Abreeze and Dollar Bill. Abreeze, who had a three-race win streak snapped in the Saratoga race. Dollar Bill, the hard-luck horse of the 2001 Triple Crown season, is still waiting for the elusive stakes victory this year.

        Repent, who won the Kentucky Cup Juvenile last year before finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, is also nominated. Others: Hero's Tribute; Nothing Flat, third in the Travers Stakes; Pure Prize; Tenpins and Cigar Stakes winner There's Zealous.

        Baffert, who won the Grade III Kentucky Cup Juvenile two years ago with Point Given, trains six of the 30 juveniles nominated to this year'srace and is expected to start Vindication and Echeverria.

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