Midnight Lute (Real Quiet) was sent off the 1-2 favorite in yesterday's GI Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile H. at Aqueduct, but he couldn't catch Shadwell Stable's Daaher (Awesome Again). Hard held by jockey Garrett Gomez down the backstretch, the odds-on chalk went after front-running three-year-old as they raced out of the turn and looked to have his measure, but Daaher had something left, drawing off the beat Midnight Lute handily. “I was kind of in-between with him because if he makes the lead too easy, his ears go ëBoink!í and he pulls himself up,” explained Midnight Luteís rider, Garrett Gomez. “I tried to time it just right. When I got to the leader, I still had a lot of horse. The other horse just kept kicking and my horse flattened out at the eighth pole.”
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