Sunday, 11 2-year-old fillies will attempt to win the Grade 3, $200,000 Miss Grillo, which will probably propel the winner to the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf next month at Keeneland.
Bettors probably cannot wait to double their money banging a daily double on races 7-8 on Saturday at Santa Anita, right? Wow, the $2 double from Beholder to Songbird might actually pay $4.
Gulfstream Park’s $75,000 Added Elegance Stakes could prove to be a stepping-stone to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint for Kiss to Remember. But first, she’ll have to get past the red-hot Flutterby
Catch a Flight, the winner of the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar in July, is scheduled to undergo a nuclear scan on Tuesday to determine the cause of body soreness that kept him from a start in Saturday’s $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita.
A fascinating matchup among three of the top maiden-winning juvenile males at the Saratoga meet is on tap Sunday in the most unlikeliest of spots – the $150,000 Bertram F. Bongard Stakes for New York-breds at Belmont Park.
The events that propelled Julien Couton to Emerald Downs began Sept. 6, 2014, the day he was arrested in California on charges of domestic violence against his girlfriend. If he was looking for a fresh start and a second chance in his new home, he certainly got them.
There could be two wars within the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sunday. Desert Dynamo, Classy Class, and Souper Colossal figure to be making their case on the front end, while a stretch battle could erupt among closers Tale of Verve, the runner-up in the Preakness; Mobile Bay, the winner of the Super Derby; and Bold Conquest, who exits the Indiana Derby.
Promising Run, a Kentucky-bred filly by Hard Spun, won her stakes debut Friday in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Newmarket Racecourse in England.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 9/27 card at Balmoral Park.
Quirky, winner of the $100,000 Charger Bar Handicap for fillies and mares in January, will be favored to win her fifth consecutive stakes Sunday in the $100,000 Mildred Vessels Handicap for Quarter Horse fillies and mares at Los Alamitos.
