Nahrain lands Flower Bowl Nahrain was a game winner of the Grade One Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday night. Roger Varian's charge was being rowed along turning for home and had to be brave when challenging between rivals down the home straight. However she repeatedly responded to John Velazquez's urgings to reel-in Zagora close home for a narrow success. Dream Peace, who collided with the winner turning for home, was third ahead of David Simcock's I'm A Dreamer. There was a stewards inquiry into the scrimmaging but the result was allowed to stand. Varian said: "She showed us in her last start when she was third at the Curragh that she was coming back to herself. Her first two runs in the summer, the level of form she showed was incomparable to the high level of form she showed last year, so when we went to Ireland we were just hoping she was going to show us something. "When she ran third - of course, we would have liked to have won that day, it was only a Group 2 - it was her first race this year where she finished strongly to the line and showed she was on her way back." On a start in the Breeders' Cup he added: "We're in [the Breeders' Cup] now, aren't we? We were second last year. From when she was second last year we were keen to have another toot at it this year. She's shown up today, hasn't she?" O'Brien's Treasure Beach ran a sound race to finish second in the Grade One Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes to the favourite Point Of Entry. The TVG Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational Stakes was won in good style by Game On Dude, ridden for the first time by Rafael Bejarano, who replaced Chantal Sutherland in the saddle.
