Up With the Birds and Mr Speaker have combined to win one race from seven starts in 2015, yet they still look like the principals in the Grade 2, $200,000 Commonwealth Cup on Saturday at Laurel Park.
Southwind Frank is the 2-5 morning line favorite in Saturday’s C$373,000 William Wellwood Memorial for 2-year-old male trotters at Mohawk Racetrack. The colt has won seven of eight career races -- all stakes events -- and enters Saturday with a six-race win streak.
Force the Pass is the 6-5 favorite Saturday at Laurel Park in the Grade 2, $400,000 Commonwealth Derby, and could slip even lower facing at most seven rivals, none of whom on paper appear his equal.
The filly Runninforhoody is picking up where the ice-bucket challenge left off. And if the results of a horse race hinged on good vibes, she would be a cinch on Saturday in the Barretts Debutante at Los Alamitos.
Smile Again Theta isn’t the most reliable horse, but she looks like the one to beat Saturday in the $50,000 Fall Classic Distaff at Northlands Park.
Last month Successful Native was favored to win his third straight race in the $75,000 Bonita at Gulfstream Park, but he ended up third. Successful Native can make amends Saturday at Gulfstream in the $75,000 Treasure Coast.
Some of harness racing’s top older pacers will descend on the hub of Delaware Monday September 21 for the 9th Annual $150,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial Invitational at Harrington Raceway.
For Cash looks formidable and will be less than even money when he runs Saturday in the $50,000 Alberta Breeders’ Handicap at Northlands Park The 1 1/16 mile race for 3-year-olds and up headlines an 11-race card that features seven $50,000 stakes restricted to Alberta-breds. First post is 1 p.m. Mountain. Fall Classic Day serves as an advertisement for the Alberta Division of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s sale Sunday at the Edmonton EXPO Centre.
Coffee Clique, who surpassed $1 million in earnings earlier this summer, breaks from the rail and heads a field of nine fillies and mares entered in Saturday’s $200,000 Noble Damsel at Belmont Park.
The September gravy train reaches the end Saturday at Kentucky Downs, where the last four of 12 stakes are interspersed throughout a 13-race meet finale.
