Friday’s featured eighth race is an optional claimer for open company, but New York-breds account for six of the nine entered for turf in the six-furlong dash on the inner course, headed by the hard-knocking veterans Sandy’z Slew and Summer Breezing.
A full sister to a pair of Grade 1 winners sold for $1.5 million to Zayat Stables and Coolmore, in partnership, Wednesday at the Keeneland September yearling sale.
A War Front colt created early fireworks on the third day of the Keeneland September yearling sale, going for $1.15 million to Coolmore as the ninth horse through the ring on Wednesday.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 9/17 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Trainer Mark Salvaggio saddles Vicksburg Bluffs (#5, ML 7-2) in Wednesday's third race at Penn National, a six-furlong allowance. Since Jan., 1, 2014, Salvaggio is winning at a 37 percent clip when saddling a horse switching from turf to dirt, for a return on investment of $3.51. Check out the Positive ROI report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
Ed Seigenfeld, the retired executive vice president for the defunct Triple Crown Productions, died early Wednesday in palliative care in Louisville, Ky., following a brief illness. He was 78.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Thursday 9/17 card at Yonkers Raceway.
One last batch of inflated purses will be up for grabs Saturday at Kentucky Downs, where a five-day meet ends with four stakes amid a 13-race card at the turf-only track in south-central Kentucky.
Wild Catomine ran well only to lose her last race, and she could finally win for the third time in Friday’s Woodbine headliner, a non-winners of three combo route for Ontario-sired allowance stock and $40,000 claimers.
Run Zippy Run (#1, ML 8-1) returns in Wednesday's 10th race at Kentucky Downs, a one-mile optional claimer on turf. It will be her first start since finishing first by a nose in an allowance July 25 at Ellis Park. The second- and third-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts. Get the Key Race report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
