Front-running upset

Inimitable Romanee pulled a 28-1 upset with a front-running victory Saturday in the $200,000 Long Island Handicap for fillies and mares on the turf at Aqueduct in New York. The longest price in the field, the gray 5-year-old held off Tabreed by a length for her first stakes victory, and third win in 20 starts. Chris DeCarlo was aboard for trainer Graham Motion as the 5-year-old ran 1½ miles in 2:34.28 on the course rated good. Inimitable Romanee paid $58.50, $19.80 and $9.60. Tabreed returned $6.90 and $4.10 while Left a Message paid $3.10 to show. The Long Island was one of the few races jockey Javier Castellano didn’t win at the Big A as Anjaz, his mount in the race, was scratched. He went 6 for 7, equaling the New York Racing Association record for victories on a card. The now-retired Ramon Dominguez was last the rider to tie the mark in 2012 at Saratoga. The feat has been accomplished 20 times at either Aqueduct, Saratoga, Belmont Park or the defunct Jamaica Race Course.

A 45-year-old female jockey died in a hospital from injuries sustained in a race fall north of Brisbane, Australia, on Saturday. Racing Queensland said in a statement today that Desiree Gill was taken to a hospital after falling from her mount, Celtic Ambition, in the fifth race at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club at Caloundra. She died early today. Gill was the wife of leading Queensland trainer

Barry Gill and she had previously worked for Racing Queensland in the training department. She spent 30 years in the racing industry and won four races at Bundaberg on Melbourne Cup day. Racing Queensland said Gill “was widely admired and loved for her passion for the racing industry.”