Silent Poet managed to hold of City Boy to win the $290,000 Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes for trainer Nick Gonzalez, whose wife and assistant, Martha, died of cancer earlier this month.

Gonzalez, Martha R. 79, of Zion, formerly of Waukegan, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, December 19, 2010, at Vista Medical Center East, in Waukegan, surrounded by all of her family. Martha… ...