Following this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will be back in Northern California on Sunday. and two days later he will welcome his star Shared Belief back to the barn.
A stakes doubleheader is on tap for Belmont Park on Friday, with 2-year-olds scheduled to go a mile on the Widener turf in the $100,000 Awad, and fillies and mares clashing in the Grade 3, $200,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap.
The stakes winners Bal a Bali, Big Cazanova, Ganesh, and Texas Ryano start in an optional claimer at a mile on turf Friday at Del Mar that could lead to appearances in graded stakes next month.
Key contender profiles for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Sprint at Keeneland.
Key contenders for Friday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland.
two of the highest-regarded Europeans, Hit It a Bomb and Cymric, drew terrible posts, 14 and 13, for Friday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.
Keeneland Racecourse, which will host the Breeders’ Cup on Friday and Saturday, did not change any of its track-maintenance procedures despite a spate of catastrophic breakdowns early in its meet, according to track officials who cited the advice of a renowned surface expert who reviewed the track’s condition and the maintenance crew’s procedures in the wake of the injuries.
Key contender profiles for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland.
There was no place on the Breeders’ Cup travel team for Found Money, the 2-year-old stakes winner trained by Doug O’Neill. With the stable represented by juveniles such as Land Over Sea and Nyquist at Keeneland on Saturday, Found Money was left behind in Southern California for Friday’s $200,000 Golden State Juvenile for California-breds at Del Mar.
A California-bred yearling colt by Good Journey sold for $140,000 at Tuesday’s Barretts fall sale of yearlings and horses of all ages at Del Mar, the most expensive hip of the sale company’s final event of 2015.
