Total handle, attendance up at Belmont fall meet
All-sources handle was up while ontrack handle was down at the 2015 Belmont Park fall meet, according to statistics released Friday by the New York Racing Association.
David GreningNov 06, 2015
All-sources handle was up while ontrack handle was down at the 2015 Belmont Park fall meet, according to statistics released Friday by the New York Racing Association.
It was a good year for trainer Ricky Agarie and a long year for the filly My Monet. On Sunday at Del Mar, Agarie begins the second season of his training career by starting My Monet in the $100,000 Betty Grable Stakes. The seven-furlong sprint for California-bred fillies and mares will be the 13th and final start of 2015 for My Monet.
The $350,000 De Francis Memorial Dash is the headliner on a card that will include six stakes next Saturday at Laurel Park. Stakes purses for the day will total $850,000. Linda Rice said this week she was considering Palace for the six-furlong Dash.
Frivolous has run so well over the main track at Churchill Downs that her connections are seriously considering a run against the boys in the 142nd Clark Handicap as a swan song for the 5-year-old mare.
This has been a year of change in Maryland racing, and on Nov. 20 the Maryland Jockey Club will hold a town hall meeting at Laurel Park to discuss its future plans.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Sunday morning 11/8 card at Yonkers Raceway.
April Rose will try to stay undefeated with she runs in a first-level allowance race that serves as the feature race at Gulfstream Park West on Sunday.
As the leading owner at the recent Keeneland and Belmont Park fall meets, Ken Ramsey is plotting a course to the Claiming Crown – in which, of course, he is the all-time leading owner – with a handful of horses, including Saffron Hall, who will prep for the Dec. 5 series at Gulfstream Park by returning from a layoff of nearly a year in the Sunday feature at Churchill Downs.
Conquest Twister will look to shake off a poor effort on turf in the Cup and Saucer Stakes when he returns to Polytrack for Sunday’s $250,000 Coronation Futurity for Canadian-bred 2-year olds at Woodbine.
Golden Sabre showed what he can do with a clean trip in his most recent start in the Grade 3 Durham Cup Stakes on Oct. 3, and will look to make it two wins in a row in Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Autumn Stakes at Woodbine.