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Stablemate could spoil Plensa's quest for second Kentucky Downs stakes win
The third start of Plensa's 2026 campaign, the $500,000 Tapit Stakes on Sunday at Kentucky Downs, is meant to be his best start of his campaign.
Marcus HershAug 28, 2026
The third start of Plensa's 2026 campaign, the $500,000 Tapit Stakes on Sunday at Kentucky Downs, is meant to be his best start of his campaign.
Trainer Blaine Wright has apparently seen enough of Si That Tiger around two turns, as the trainer has him entered in a $30,000 allowance at five furlongs on Sunday rather than waiting for the 1 1/16-mile Muckleshoot Tribal Classic a week later.
Souper Survivor makes his much anticipated stakes debut in Sunday's $300,000 Simcoe, one of four Tapeta stakes for graduates of Canadian yearling sales on the Woodbine card, along with the Muskoka, Algoma, and Elgin.
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Vernon Beachy seems to have found a magic formula when it comes to racing 2-year-old trotting colts in the Ohio Sires Stakes: team up with Gitup Racing, Ryan Smith and Todd's Auto to go to the yearling sales, spend just over $20,000 on Ready For Moni colts, enlist Ronnie Wrenn Jr. to drive, get away third from post five, make it to the front just after the opening quarter and continue to lead the mile to win in 1:54 and change.
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Meeting for the sixth time this year, Somemore Blue, driven by Marcus Miller for trainer Erv Miller, slugged it out with her rival Whoomp to secure a statement win in the lone $95,000 division of the seventh leg of Indiana Sire Stakes for 3-year-old filly pacers on Thursday (August 27) at Harrah's Hoosier Park. The "series" is now tied at three wins apiece between Somemore Blue and Whoomp, alternating victories in each meeting.
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There are a number of elements which provide the lifeblood that keeps the industry alive and healthy. Certainly near the top of the list are people who spend their money at the sales and purchase horses publicly and privately in all denominations.
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In reviewing the autopsy of what happened to the 3-10 favored Dandy Ideal in the Grade 3 $100,000 Always B Miki Invitational, the concluding race on Saturday's (August 22) Sun Stakes card, handicappers had to be puzzled how the 4-year-old that was dominant in the Dan Patch at Hoosier Park just eight days earlier succumbed in the stretch at his home track. For it was Dandy Ideal a year earlier to the date that took on and beat the best in the sophomore division in the Max Hempt Memorial.
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For young trainer Cam Capone the conditions at Woodbine Mohawk Park have been ideal. Last year he brought Madden Oaks to Ontario and the sophomore was dazzling in the North America Cup and fought valiantly but came up a tad short of Louprint's stunning performance. So, when Capone showed up with Ocean Storm for last week's William Wellwood, it was worth taking notice. Much like Madden Oaks, Ocean Storm had but one career start, and that was in an Excelsior leg of the New York Sire Stakes at Tioga. Taking on the best in North America in the Wellwood appeared something out of reach.
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Opening up two lengths on the field soon after the start under Flavien Prat, Wood Island cruised around the track uncontested and came home a 2 3/4-length winner of Thursday’s $200,000 Skidmore Stakes for 2-year-old males at Saratoga.