OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Dubyuhnell and Arctic Arrogance turned Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen Stakes into their own private match race, with Dubyuhnell prevailing by a half-length to put himself on the 2023 Kentucky Derby trail. Under Jose Ortiz, Dubyuhnell stalked, from second, Arctic Arrogance from the middle of the clubhouse turn until deep stretch, where he edged away in the final 70 yards to get the hard-fought victory. Arctic Arrogance, coming off a victory in the Sleepy Hollow Stakes for New York-breds, finished second by 11 1/4 lengths over favored Tuskegee Airmen. Quick to Accuse finished fourth, followed by Midnight Trouble, Il Miracolo and Prove Right. The win was the second straight for Dubyuhnell, a son of Good Magic owned by West Paces Racing and Stonestreet Stables and trained by Danny Gargan. The win capped a fabulous 30 minutes for Stonestreet, which one race earlier won the Grade 2 Demoiselle for 2-year-old fillies with Julia Shining. :: DRF Bets members get FREE DRF Past Performances - Formulator or Classic. Join now! Both Gargan and Ortiz thought there was plenty of speed in the Remsen and that Dubyuhnell would be sitting midpack. But the pace didn’t materialize like they figured and, after entering the first turn third and three-wide, Dubyuhnell was second and within a half-length of Arctic Arrogance by the middle of the turn. The two stayed in close contact through a half-mile in 48.13 seconds, six furlongs in 1:12.23 and a mile in 1:37.47. It wasn’t until inside the sixteenth pole that Dubyuhnell was able to begin to get clear from Arctic Arrogance and jockey Jose Lezcano. “When we hit the second turn I knew it was going to be just me or him, so I went after him,” said Ortiz, who had won on Arctic Arrogance first time out and “knew that horse was going to run big. … I think he’s a nice horse, but we were better today.” Ortiz added that when Dubyuhnell “put his ears up as soon as he put a head in front. He’s still a little immature. I wish he would run by horses a little bit better, but he hopefully he keeps improving with age.” Dubyuhnell covered the 1 1/8 miles over the sloppy track in 1:50.88 and returned $10 as the fourth choice. Gargan has always been high on Dubyuhnell since before he ran. On Sept. 3, at Saratoga, Dubyuhnell finished fourth in a seven-furlong maiden race, but the winner of that race, Instant Coffee, came back to win the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs on Nov. 26. Dubyuhnell was coming off a maiden victory in an off-the-turf race run in the slop here on Oct. 2. “He’s learning to run,” Gargan said. “The other day, he won, but he was goofing off the whole race and he still got up and won. Today, I thought it was a more professional effort, but he’s got a lot left to learn and a lot more talent.” Dubyuhnell earned 10 points toward the May 6 Kentucky Derby under a system Churchill Downs employs in the likely event more than 20 horses enter the race. The second- through fifth-place Remsen finishers earned 4-3-2-1 points, respectively. Gargan said Dubyuhnell would soon ship to South Florida, but he didn’t rule out bringing him back to New York for a race like the Withers, typically run the first week in February. Gargan said he would love to win the Wood Memorial, a race typically run at Aqueduct the first week in April. Meanwhile, Arctic Arrogance made a good showing in his first start facing open company. Trainer Linda Rice earlier in the week expressed reservations about running the son of Frosted 1 1/8 miles at this point of his career, but in the end was glad she did. “He ran super, he just didn’t win,” said Rice, who will keep the horse in New York for the winter. Lezcano said Arctic Arrogance appeared more one-paced when he asked him to run over the sloppy track Saturday than he was when he asked him to run over a fast surface in the Sleepy Hollow. Luis Saez, aboard 6-5 favorite Tuskegee Airmen, said he was out of horse by the top of the stretch. “He never responded,” Saez said. “We broke from there, never got into the bridle, he was getting in a little bit and at the top of the stretch I ran out of horse.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.