A globetrotting star could be coming to Tampa Bay Downs for the $100,000 Turf Dash, a five-furlong turf sprint for 4-year-olds and up Jan. 9. Mongolian Saturday, who won the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at 15-1 on Oct. 31 at Keeneland, was among 29 nominees to the Turf Dash, and if he works well this weekend, he likely will show up, according to his connections.
More than eight weeks have passed since American Pharoah left trainer Bob Baffert's stable for good, bound for Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
Dance With Ravens, a Grade 2 winner and veteran Mid-Atlantic stallion, has been sold to Saudi Arabian interests and will stand in that country for the 2016 breeding season. The 13-year-old son of A.P. Indy previously stood at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., for a fee of $3,000.
Santa Anita began its winter-spring meeting on Saturday with strong attendance and handle figures compared with the corresponding day in 2014.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Northfield, Meadows and Monticello.
On Saturday, both John Servis and his son Blane run horses in the Grade 3, $200,000 Jerome Stakes, now the first race for 3-year-olds on this circuit that could lead to the Kentucky Derby.
Beginning Friday, the New York Racing Association will no longer air its nightly 30-minute recap show or the “National Racing Report” on the Madison Square Garden network.
The freakishly fast but frequently fragile Mean Season is nearing a return to the races.
Matt King Coal, an impressive maiden winner at Belmont in October, will be forced to skip Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Jerome Stakes after getting sick for the second time in a month.
The Kentucky attorney general's office has issued an opinion stating that the state racing commission cannot delegate rule-making authority to private companies like racetracks, putting in jeopardy a plan by Keeneland to write races in which the race-day administration of the regulated medication Lasix would be prohibited.
