Smart Transition a threat in Discovery Handicap
There are only seven entrants in the Grade 3 Discovery at Aqueduct on Wednesday but the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds is anything but clear-cut.
Jim DunleavyNov 09, 2015
There are only seven entrants in the Grade 3 Discovery at Aqueduct on Wednesday but the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds is anything but clear-cut.
Strut the Course encountered trouble in the stretch of the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes on the Woodbine turf on Oct. 18 and will return to Polytrack to face males in the $125,000 Sir Barton Stakes, trainer Barbara Minshall said.
Missing Sefa will be scratched from the 10th race Wednesday, but the 13-year-old mare isn’t quite finished racing, said owner-trainer Jamie Grubbs.
It’s hardly possible to elicit a more bittersweet reaction to victory than the eighth race Saturday at Churchill, where Mesoma outfought two rivals to win a $57,000 allowance in a three-horse photo.
Trainer Mark Casse is closing in on his ninth consecutive Woodbine training title, and as the 2015 meet winds to a close, preliminary plans are beginning to take shape for next season.
Frontier Ranger paid $98.40 when he won his debut in a in a one-mile maiden special weight race on firm turf at Gulfstream Park West on Oct. 10. He’ll be a significantly lower price there on Thursday when he makes his second start in a $75,000 optional-claiming race.
No one knows the ultimate destinies of Whitmore and Piracy, but one thing is certain: Sending them out to win their career debuts last weekend at Churchill was an absolute blast for trainer Ron Moquett.
Roy Sedlacek, a New York-based trainer, has been suspended indefinitely by New York stewards after two of his horses tested positive for a powerful banned synthetic sedative after racing at Belmont Park, according to state records.
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Trainer Cassidy planned to start Holy Lute in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, but a racing official mistakenly pre-entered him in the BC Sprint. The blunder was discovered late. Holy Lute was moved to the Turf Sprint, but relegated to the also-eligible list. He shipped to Kentucky, and did not draw in. Holy Lute returned home to California with an option – a $59,000 allowance turf sprint on Thursday at Del Mar.