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Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, injured in a spill here on the July 3 opening day card, is set to return to race-riding on Wednesday at Saratoga, where he is named to ride one horse on the eight-race card.
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The highs and lows of a trainer were evident in the William Walden barn on Thursday, as he had to send one promising filly to the sidelines in the morning while unveiling a potential future turf stakes horse in the afternoon.
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Grand Job will be heavily favored Sunday in the Grade 2, $250,000 Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga, where she will try to erase the memory of painful defeats in her last two starts while setting herself up for the Grade 1 Ballerina.
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Gulfstream Park will run its third of eight consecutive Monday programs on July 27, offering another mandatory payout on the 20-cent Rainbow 6. The multi-race wager featured six-digit pools for the first two Monday cards of the meet and is expected to again attract bettors with a healthy slate of races this week.
The $285,000 Governor's Cup Futurity on Sunday at Los Alamitos drew a field of eight and is led by trial race winners Niece Laura, Quite Perfect, and Still Standing. The final three races on the card are six-figure stakes.
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Formidable Man and Gold Phoenix have won two of the last three runnings of the Eddie Read at Del Mar. To gain a second victory in the $250,000 turf stakes on Sunday, they will not only need to contend with each other, but also their stablemates.
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Jose D'Angelo made a bold decision to run the last-out maiden winner Azam in the Peter Pan . That start didn't go to plan, but if the colt can get back on track in an allowance Sunday at Gulfstream Park, it could re-energize his trainer's ambitions.
Souper Sporty goes back to the Tapeta off a longshot tally on turf in Sunday's $150,000 Thunder Bay, one of two six-furlong stakes on the Woodbine card for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds, along with the $150,000 Lake Superior.
Driver Corey Callahan guided filly trotter Tuis Star and gelding pacer C Millertimeagain to victories in their respective $110,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund finals for 3-year-olds on Thursday night at Harrington Raceway.
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The second leg of Indiana Sire Stakes action for 2-year-old colt and gelding trotters headlined at Harrah's Hoosier Park on Thursday (July 23), with Swan Good Bi, driven by Jordan Ross for trainer Henry Graber Jr., tasting victory first in his $46,000 flight in race four. Later, Nectar Of The Gods won in a thriller for $46,000 in the eighth race. Meanwhile, in race 11, the longest shot on the board Temporal Power stunned in his $45,500 split.
