Smack Smack will point to Fifth Season at Oaklawn
Trainer Don Von Hemel said Smack Smack is a candidate for the $100,000 Fifth Season on Jan. 16 at Oaklawn Park.
Mary RampelliniDec 02, 2015
Trainer Don Von Hemel said Smack Smack is a candidate for the $100,000 Fifth Season on Jan. 16 at Oaklawn Park.
Texas Chrome, a three-time stakes winner this year at 2, will miss the $250,000 Springboard Mile on Dec. 13 at Remington.
Trainer Mike Hushion confirmed that Artemis Agrotera, the two-time Grade 1-winning New York-bred filly, has been retired from racing and will be bred in 2016.
The next step for The Pickett Factor could be the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic, a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up bred in Louisiana on Dec. 12 at Fair Grounds.
W. Ted Hill, the Jockey Club steward at New York Racing Association racetracks since 1996, will retire at the end of the year and be replaced by longtime New Jersey steward Jim Edwards, the Jockey Club announced Wednesday.
Princess Violet, a Grade 1 winner earlier in the year, will return from a six-month layoff in Saturday's $100,000 Garland of Roses Stakes, the final stakes to be run over Aqueduct's main track in 2015.
Tiz My Valentine has just one win in 12 starts, but in one important way, he's a standout in the featured seventh race Friday at Tampa Bay Downs, a first-level $23,000 allowance scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on grass.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Friday 12/4 card at Woodbine Harness.
Among them, Freemark, Just Been Jammin, and Best Picture were purchased for a combined $1.3 million at yearling and 2-year-old in-training sales in the last 15 months. They represent a formidable team of first-time starters for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert in a maiden special weight race at 5 1/2 furlongs for 2-year-olds at Los Alamitos on Friday.
The second highest ranking government official in Texas has sent a letter to the Texas Racing Commission's chairman “urging” the panel to repeal historical racing rules at its next meeting, Dec. 15. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick late Tuesday released the letter he sent to the commission's Robert Schmidt.