Artemis Agrotera, the multiple-Grade 1-winning New York-bred filly who has not raced since last year’s Breeders’ Cup, worked a sharp five furlongs in 1:00.43 Monday morning over a dull Belmont Park training track.
Trainer Jimmy Toner won the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf with Soaring Softly, who recently died as a result of injuries suffered in a paddock accident at Darby Dan Farm. Toner is hoping he can get back to this year’s Filly and Mare Turf with Recepta, whose dam, Honor Bestowed, is a half-sister to Soaring Softly.
It was always a reach that Sammy Mandeville might give his stable a shot at winning the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile for a third straight year.Maybe, next season. Instead, the graded stakes-placed colt will seek a confidence-building win in a second-level optional claimer that goes as race 2 on Thursday at Santa Anita.
Golden Horn, the winner of Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and a possible contender for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, will stand at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England beginning in 2016. A fee will be announced at a later time.
The catalog for the 2015 Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders’ Association fall mixed sale is now available online, with 61 horses on offer.
The six graded stakes races contested last Saturday at Belmont Park were about the near-term. A maiden race run when all the stakes were completed late Saturday afternoon could have significant long-term implications.
Both the ontrack handle and the all-sources handle declined during the recent six-day San Joaquin Fair meet at Stockton.
Ron Gierkink's horses to watch at Woodbine for the week of Oct. 5.
Back at Belmont for the first time in three months, Lady Kreesa and Rumble Doll look like the major players in a $77,000 first-level, open-company allowance race that serves as the feature on Thursday’s nine-race program.
Mark Casse has won the Sovereign Award for top trainer in Canada a remarkable seven times, but that’s not the whole story. All of North America now seems to be his domain, and that includes Keeneland, where the 54-year-old Indianapolis native enjoyed a fall meet opening weekend he won’t soon forget.
