SARATOGA SPRINGS — Bigger Is Bettor won by a head in a four-horse battle to the wire to take the $100,000 Evan Shipman Stakes at Saratoga Race Course for horses bred in New York.
Joe Rocco Jr. rode the Rodrigo Ubillo-trained 5-year-old, who ran 1¹/8 miles in 1:51.07 and returned $25.20, $9.60 and $4.40. Favored Awesome Vision paid $3.80 and $2.70 and Readthebyline, third of six, paid $2.60 to show.
Bigger Is Bettor earned $60,000 for owners Chester and Mary Broman.