Trainer Sylvea Gregory could have a big day at Hastings on Monday. She is probably going to win the 3-year-old fillies division of the $60,000 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Sales Stakes with Quatre Cat. She also has a good chance of winning the 2-year-old colts and geldings division with Fear of the Cat.
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Bootleggers Wife remained undefeated with an easy win over Raise a Dancer in the $51,850 Bird of Pay Stakes at Northlands Park on Friday evening. She paid $2.50 as the prohibitive favorite in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 2-year-old fillies that drew four horses.
The strategy went wrong, but the result was right when Smokey Image extended his unbeaten streak to four races in Friday’s $150,000 I’m Smokin Stakes at Del Mar.
We’ll take a $140 crack at Saturday’s $750,000-guaranteed late pick four on races 9-12, which covers the Spinaway, Woodward, and Glens Falls and ends with a competitive optional-claiming turf route.
Free: Del Mar pick three play for Saturday, Sept. 5
A total of 464 horses have been cataloged for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s fall mixed sale, for which the catalog is now available.
A colt from the first crop of Florida Derby winner Dialed In brought $55,000 to top the Equine Sales Co. of Louisiana consignor select yearling sale Wednesday. The auction was held in Opelousas, La., at facilities near Evangeline Downs.
In a race that nearly finished in a dead heat, Royal Posse edged out a game but unlucky Saratoga Snacks by the slimmest of margins to capture the $100,000 Evan Shipman Stakes on Thursday at Saratoga. Zivo, making his first start since the Breeders’ Cup Classic, finished fourth as the 4-5 favorite.
Vyjack, entered and scratched on two previous occasions at the meet, will try to make it to the starting gate in Monday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap on closing day.
