Nyquist and Swipe, who ran first and second – in that order for the fourth consecutive time – Saturday in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland, were to return to California in the coming days for a brief rest before gearing up for a run at next year’s Kentucky Derby.
Fame Game will attempt to become the first Japanese-trained winner of Australia’s most famous race, the Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday.
The brilliant Songbird, who rolled by 5 3/4 lengths in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, was packing up Sunday morning to head back to California, with an eye toward an eagerly anticipated 3-year-old campaign.
Heza Dasha Fire won the fourth major stakes of his career Saturday in the $859,400 Los Alamitos Super Derby for Quarter Horses, setting up a showdown with top older horse Moonist in the $600,000 Champion of Champions on Dec. 12.
Found, the Breeders’ Cup Turf-winning 3-year-old filly, left for a return trip to Ireland at 6 a.m. Sunday but will get a chance to build on her late-season success during a 2016 campaign that conceivably could end with a repeat bid in the Turf.
Lovely Day will be favored to win the Japan Cup on Nov. 29 after winning his second Grade 1 race of 2015 Sunday in the $2,593,850 Tenno Sho at Tokyo Racecourse.
Trainer Danny Gargan saddles R Free Roll (#4, ML 6-1) in Sunday's seventh race at Belmont Park, the six-furlong Pumpkin Pie Stakes. Since Jan., 1, 2014, Gargan is winning at a 27 percent clip in sprints, for a return on investment of $3.51. Check out the Positive ROI report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Tepin came out of the race in good shape and will train on for a 2016 campaign, trainer Mark Casse said Sunday morning at Keeneland.
While most of the top older horses who raced in 2015 are heading to the breeding shed or retirement, Effinex, runner-up to American Pharoah in Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland, will remain in training for a 2016 campaign.
The public bet the Tri-State Futurity at Charles Town on Saturday night like it was a two-horse race, and that’s exactly how the seven-furlong race played out with the colt Bullets Fever defeating the filly Aye a Song by a neck after a long battle.
