The connections of Nitrogen are raising the degree of difficulty for their champion filly while taking a shot at making history. Nitrogen, a 12 3/4-length winner of the Ogden Phipps earlier this month, will make her next start against males in the $1 million Whitney at Saratoga.
Soon after losing his weight allowance on June 29, apprentice jockey Yedsit Hazlewood will move out of the Mid-Atlantic region to take mounts at Ellis Park this summer. It will mark a major turning point in the 18-year-old Panamanian rider's career, one in which he has already attained incredible success.
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The challenge to fill races in California gets tougher in spring at Los Alamitos, which begins the second week of its three-week daytime meet on Friday.
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Despite the narrow loss, there was a lot to like about the last race from Inspeightofcharlie, a nose defeat May 10 at Aqueduct. Aside from the price, there certainly is a lot to like about Inspeightofcharlie Friday, when he makes a second attempt at clearing the first-level New York-bred allowance condition going 1 1/16 miles over Aqueduct's inner turf course.
Four of the seven 3-year-olds entered in Friday's $70,000 optional-claiming and allowance feature will come into the race off a victory. But it will be the stakes-placed Wootun who could garner the most attention from bettors.
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Good losses tend to be underappreciated, and Rhetorical definitely had one in the Manhattan Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga.
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White Abarrio, vanquisher of Breeders' Cup Classic winner Sovereignty in the Oaklawn Handicap, shipped earlier this week from his base at Gulfstream Park to Churchill Downs for Saturday's $2 million Stephen Foster Stakes.
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Commandment has the Jim Dandy Stakes on Aug. 1 as his next target, a prep for the $1.25 million Travers four weeks later.
If you were to judge a creature strictly by the company he keeps, you would expect American Promise to win the featured 10th race Friday at Churchill Downs.
Mr. A. P., unraced since finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last fall at Del Mar, did not work last weekend as usual, but no worries. Trainer Vladimir Cerin said Mr. A. P. was coming around too quickly, and Cerin did not want the colt ready too soon, hence the skipped work.
