The last time Turco Bravo raced over Aqueduct's inner track, he won the $98,000 Stymie Stakes as the 9-1 longest shot in a five-horse field. It was his only win in nine starts to date in 2015. On Saturday, Turco Bravo will return to Aqueduct's inner track and likely be a longshot again when he runs in the $100,000 Queens County Stakes at 1 1/8 miles.
Dom the Bomb won the Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity in December 2014 at Hawthorne by 5 1/4 lengths with a Beyer Speed Figure of 82. On Saturday, his half-brother, Richie the Bull, won the Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity by 9 1/4 lengths with a Beyer of 80. But Richie the Bull's connections, trainer Larry Rivelli and owners Richard Ravin and V-Leaf Stables, surely hope the two horses' story lines diverge from here on out.
Trainer Jinks Fires on Monday morning was heading home to Oaklawn Park with Discreetness, one of his candidates for the track's stakes series for 3-year-olds. The pair was traveling from Remington Park, where Discreetness captured the $250,000 Springboard Mile on the final card of the meet Sunday.
It really isn't May. It just feels that way around these parts. One race that may have handicappers flashing back to the spring is Thursday's second-level allowance feature at Aqueduct, where Momameamaria and Clothes Fall Off have a rematch of their May 30 tilt at Belmont Park.
The prominent young sire Scat Daddy died of a suspected cardiac event Monday at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky. The son of Johannesburg was 11.
Unusual Heat, one of California’s perennial leading sires, is booked full for the 2016 breeding season with an advertised fee of $20,000, but is accepting approved mares to a waiting list.
After toiling in the second-level allowance condition on turf for the better part of the year, Taghleeb finally cleared that hurdle in an off-the-turf race over Keeneland's main track on Oct. 29.Now, Taghleeb will try to confirm his fondness for the dirt when he runs in Wednesday's $75,000 third-level allowance/optional-claiming feature going a mile and 70 yards over Aqueduct's inner track.
Jockey Tyler Gaffalione was involved in a scary-looking spill after the start of a race last week, but fortunately for the recently turned journeyman, Gaffalione escaped from the mishap with only minor bruising to his knee, missed only one day of riding, and bounced back from the incident with a bang by winning four races over the weekend, including Saturday's Grade 3 Rampart with Cali Star for trainer Marty Wolfson.
Woodford Thoroughbreds has named Matt Lyons vice president and general manager of its farms in Versailles, Ky., and Reddick, Fla.
Ima Fearless Hero won his fifth consecutive race and his second major futurity of the year in Sunday’s $1,957,175 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity for 2-year-old Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos.
