Treve solidifies status as Arc favorite
This is Treve’s fourth season of racing, and from the look of her win Sunday in the Group 1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp, her passion for competition has hit an all-time high.
Marcus HershSep 13, 2015
This is Treve’s fourth season of racing, and from the look of her win Sunday in the Group 1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp, her passion for competition has hit an all-time high.
Trainer Phil D’Amato saddles Obviously (#1, ML 3-1) in Sunday's 10th race at Woodbine, the $1 million Woodbine Mile on turf. Since Jan. 1, 2014, D'Amato is winning at a 30 percent clip when saddling a horse coming off a layoff longer than 180 days, for a return on investment of $2.68. Check out the Positive ROI report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
It goes without saying that everyone in the game is thrilled with the great progress Lady Eli has made in her terribly unlucky bout with laminitis. Nevertheless, it remains impossible not to wonder what this brilliant, undefeated filly might have accomplished were it not for the random misfortune of stepping on an isolated nail. And that is because of what those Lady Eli crushed have gone on to do.
He’s Comin in Hot returned to his home state Saturday night after racing at Saratoga and won the $75,000 colts and geldings division of the Texas Stallion Stakes at Retama Park. The race for 2-year-olds was one of four restricted stakes on a program designed to complement inductions into the track’s Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Honor Code and Tonalist finished first and second in the Metropolitan Handicap and first and third in the Whitney Stakes. Before they are expected to meet again in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, both horses will go their separate ways for their next starts.
Stormation seized command early and continued his dominance of the locally based juveniles with a 2 1/2-length win Saturday in the $75,000 Shakopee Juvenile.
Ohio Super Night at Scioto Downs on Saturday belonged to driver Ronnie Wrenn, Jr as the 29-year-old won five races and posted an upset with Doo Wop Hanover in the $225,000 Jim Ewart Memorial. Wrenn took home three rich purses by also winning two of the eight $225,000 championship finals for 2- and 3-year-olds of both gaits and sexes.
A talented group of 13 older trotters, including two mares, were separated into two $40,000 eliminations for the Maple Leaf Trot. The top five finishers from each division punched their ticket to next week’s C$680,000 final.
The rain may have fallen heavily before and during the 3-year-old New York Night of Champions program, but the way races were decided at Yonkers on Saturday night looked incredibly familiar. It was of course about speed once again over the half-mile track that has been lightning fast of late but a little slower due to a sloppy surface on Saturday. The rain didn’t dampen the spirits of drivers Jason Bartlett or Jim Morrill Jr. The two shared honors capturing a pair of $225,000 finals apiece.
Some doubted the two-turn ability of sprinter Ambitious Brew prior to the $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes on Saturday at Los Alamitos. Ambitious Brew erased those doubts with a sharp 1 3/4-length victory in the mile race for Cal-breds.