The purse of the $192,000 Fleet Treat Stakes at Del Mar on July 25 has been ordered redistributed after race winner Big Book tested in excess of the permitted level of the tranquilizer acepromazine, according to a statement released by the California Horse Racing Board.
The Jack Betta Be Rite is a tricky race. The two most accomplished runners are Carameaway and Miss Da Point, both of whom have earned more than $400,000. Each has questions to answer in this race.
Obviously, who finished third in the Woodbine Mile in Canada on Sept. 13, will not start in the $200,000 City of Hope Mile at Santa Anita and will be trained toward the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
Because Keeneland’s main track is 1 1/16 miles around, the two-turn Breeders’ cup Dirt Mile will start in front of the stands, and the first finish line will be utilized, meaning not all of the 1,236-foot stretch run will come into play.
Sheer Drama’s final road trip of the year will be a 15-hour van ride from Gulfstream Park to Keeneland, where on Oct. 30 she will be favored to win a third straight Grade 1 race.
Two of the more popular horses on this circuit, Untapable and Runhappy, had serious workouts early this week toward their respective races on the huge FallStars Weekend that opens the Keeneland fall meet.
Major League Baseball legend Yogi Berra famously said when you come to a fork in the road, “take it,” so that’s what Al Stall Jr. will do this weekend with Departing.
Bluegrass Singer, who has made all 10 previous starts during his 3-year-old season against stakes company, will come up tagged and take on older horses for the first time if he runs in Friday’s $46,000 main event at Gulfstream Park, a second-level optional $62,500 claimer at 7 1/2 furlongs on turf.
On closing day of the fall Thoroughbred meet, Los Alamitos will try something different to kick off the Friday card – five starter allowance races that are labeled overnight stakes.
Marcia Dall, the chief financial officer at Erie Indemnity Co. since 2009, has been hired by Churchill Downs Inc. as the company’s new CFO, Churchill announced on Wednesday.
