Sparkles' Girl pulls away to win Ontario Lassie
Sparkles’ Girl found her calling going long during a decisive victory Saturday under Emma-Jayne Wilson in the $150,000 Ontario Lassie Stakes at Woodbine.
Ron GierkinkNov 28, 2015
Sparkles’ Girl found her calling going long during a decisive victory Saturday under Emma-Jayne Wilson in the $150,000 Ontario Lassie Stakes at Woodbine.
Carina Mia took the spotlight for herself this time, turning back the favored Stageplay for an emphatic 4 1/4-length score in the Grade 2, $200,000 Golden Rod Stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
Trainer Christophe Clement was looking for a reason not to run his two horses, Tonalist and Red Vine, in Saturday’s Grade 1 Cigar Mile. Good thing he didn’t fine one.
Eddie Castro showed he knows his way around the Gulfstream Park West turf course after winning both grass stakes on Saturday’s closing-day program, the $75,000 Pulpit aboard Swagger Jagger and filly counterpart the $75,000 Wait a While with Lira.
Amis Gizmo ($2.90) established himself as a contender for next year’s Queen’s Plate with a determined score Saturday over the previously unbeaten Aye Aye Captain in the $125,000 Kingarvie Stakes at Woodbine.
Offtrack stabling in Southern California will remain at Galway Downs, Los Alamitos, and San Luis Rey Downs in 2016 after officials with area racetracks and horsemen’s organizations reached “a framework” for a one-year agreement to maintain stabling at those venues, according to Chuck Winner, chairman of the California Horse Racing Board.
Forever Unbridled, who spent the first part of the year giving futile chase to I’m a Chatterbox in three stakes, broke through with a stakes victory of her own when she edged Carrumba after a long drive Saturday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Comely Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.
There would be no tough beat for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin this year in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes as Mohaymen split horses in midstretch and drew clear to a 1 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s $300,000 stakes for juvenile males at Aqueduct.
Though it won’t get high marks aesthetically or on the clock, Lewis Bay passed her stakes and two-turn debut with a 1 3/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct.
California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds at Los Alamitos on Saturday, continuing the buildup to a 2016 campaign that might include two starts in the United Arab Emirates.