Square Dancer, who locked up divisional honors among older horses at Hastings by winning the S.W. Randall Plate on Sept. 13, will be pointed to the Grade 3, $100,000 Premier's on Oct. 12.
For Ashleyluvssugar to advance to the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31, a win in Sunday’s $75,000 King Pellinore Stakes at Santa Anita is a must.
A trio of Grade 3 winners appears likely to battle it out in a $25,000 optional-claiming race that serves as the feature Sunday at Hastings.
Gold Rush Dancer, a sprinter seeking to carry his abundant speed around two turns, headlines Sunday’s $65,000 Gottstein Futurity on closing day at Emerald Downs.
Brereton Jones gets a kick out of Include Betty’s closing kick. It’s what she used to win the Grade 1 Mother Goose in June and it’s what she’ll call upon Sunday when she takes on six other 3-year-old fillies in the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks.
New York lawmakers should examine the statutory requirements imposed on the state’s five offtrack betting corporations with the intent of shoring up their deteriorating financial condition, according to the recommendations of an audit by the New York state comptroller’s office examining the OTBs’ operations over the past five years.
Florent Geroux will be competing on a regular basis at Keeneland after traveling extensively over the last couple of months when using Arlington Park and Churchill Downs as his bases.
Say this about Grade-1 winning turf miler Talco – he is dependable. One-two in six straight races and already ensured a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, Talco will prep for the BC by running Sunday in the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile at Santa Anita.
Jesus Castanon is named on two mounts Sunday at Churchill as the veteran jockey returns from a layoff forced by a tailbone injury that resulted from an Aug. 16 spill at Ellis Park.
Horses from the first crops of Astrology, Caleb’s Posse, Star Guitar, and The Factor highlight the Breeders Sales Co. of Louisiana yearling auction, to be held Tuesday at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe. There are 220 yearlings catalogued to the sale, which starts at 11 a.m. Central.
