Airoforce, Camelot Kitten, and Siding Spring swept the trifecta in the Bourbon on Oct. 4 and all three punched their tickets to the BC Juvenile Turf, contested over the same course, with their performances.
Contest action returns to DRFBets on Saturday with a new format. The top two finishers will both receive their seats to the National Handicapping Championship, to be held in January at Treasure Island in Las Vegas. A purse in excess of $2.5 million is expected at the NHC.
Breeders’ Cup consultant Ken Kirchner has seen the event change and evolve while overseeing incredible wagering growth, a betting menu explosion and the creation of the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge in 2009.
The $500,000 West Virginia Breeders’ Classic is one of the most anticipated races of the year at Charles Town – and you certainly don’t want to miss Saturday night’s edition.
Victor Carrasco, the leading rider at the Laurel Park summer meet and the Pimlico spring meet, began getting on horses Monday at Laurel Park for the first time since being injured in a spill at Delaware Park on Aug. 25.
Laurel Park has a nice-looking card on Friday. Seven of the 10 races have at least 10 horses, and the feature is an optional-claiming race for 2-year-olds at a one-turn mile.
At age 10, Salsa Express continues to be a gem of consistency, compiling a 2-3-3 record from eight starts at Northlands Park this year. She will be looking for her 26th career win when she makes her 75th start in a $12,500 claiming race that will be featured on Friday evening at Northlands.
Trainer Brian Lynch saddles Malibu Charlie (#4, ML 5-2) in Wednesday's first race at Belmont Park, a seven-furlong claiming race on turf. Since Jan., 1, 2014, Lynch is winning at a 27 percent clip in claiming races, for a return on investment of $2.47. Check out the Positive ROI report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
Dancing Ashley drops to an inviting spot and experiments over a mile in Friday’s nominal feature at Woodbine, a $40,000 claimer that is scheduled for lane 3 on the grass.
Trainer Graham Motion has been suspended five days and fined $500 by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission after one of his horses who won a stakes races last April at Keeneland tested positive for a prohibited level of a regulated muscle relaxant, according to a commission ruing posted on Saturday.
