Saratoga Mischief sidelined by ankle chip
One horse who will not make the Champagne Stakes is Saratoga Mischief, runner-up to Exaggerator in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on Aug. 16.
David GreningSep 14, 2015
One horse who will not make the Champagne Stakes is Saratoga Mischief, runner-up to Exaggerator in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on Aug. 16.
The opening three days of the 11-day Churchill fall meet produced a handful of impressive performances by 2-year-olds making their career debuts, including Gun Runner and La Appassionata from the Steve Asmussen stable.
For Kentucky horse trainers, there’s probably no busier time of year than this week. Not only are Churchill Downs and Kentucky Downs conducting race meets, but there are future prospects to be scouted and purchased at the Keeneland September yearling sale.
For those who watched his pre-race behavior, it wasn’t a surprise that Force did not live up to his name when sent off the favorite in the $250,000 Albany Stakes for New York-breds three weeks ago at Saratoga.
Trainer Linda Rice had big plans for Palace this year, including getting him to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint for a second consecutive year, but myriad issues have limited the multiple Grade 1 winner to just two starts in 2015, and it appears time is running out to make the major fall sprint races.
Curls for Girls will be able to add Florida to the list of states in which she has competed following Thursday’s ninth race at Gulfstream.
East Hall will be coming off one of his strongest races of the year next month when he goes in the $75,000 Fort Loudon at Gulfstream Park.
Fresh off weekend stakes wins with Spelling Again and Uncle Brennie, Cox will send out Cash Control as a viable contender in the nominal Twilight Thursday feature at Churchill, a $44,200 turf mile governed by a third-level allowance condition and an $80,000 claiming option.
Tom Amoss, the trainer ranked 32nd in the U.S. by purse earnings in 2015, will begin a 45-day suspension imposed by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission on Thursday, running through the end of October and the two-day Breeders’ Cup event at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
Terre Noire will attempt to win her seventh straight race Wednesday at Louisiana Downs. She is in the sixth race on a nine-race card that ushers in the final week of the meet. The first-level allowance is for fillies and mares over 7 1/2 furlongs on turf and drew a field of 13.