She might have difficulty equaling the career of her award-winning mother, but Darlinonthebeach will be looking to turn heads in Saturday’s C$455,000 She’s A Great Lady Stakes for 2-year-old female pacers at Mohawk Racetrack.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 9/3 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Thursday 9/3 card at Yonkers Raceway.
The racetracks in Texas were unable to conduct simulcasting on Tuesday after a midnight deadline passed Monday without funding for the Texas Racing Commission’s administrative costs in place. The tracks are also unable to conduct live racing in a development that immediately impacts Retama Park, which is in the midst of a Thoroughbred meet, and Lone Star Park, which on Sept. 18 is scheduled to open a Quarter Horse meet featuring the prestigious Challenge Championships.
The Saturday broadcast on NBC of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course peaked at 3.4 million viewers as Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh was edged in the stretch by Keen Ice, the network said on Tuesday after releasing refined viewership figures for the race.
Trainer Chad Brown has won three consecutive runnings of the P.G. Johnson Stakes, the last two with maidens. On Thursday, Brown will send out the maiden Ava’s Kitten in the $100,000 P.G. Johnson for 2-year-old fillies on turf at Saratoga.
Trainer Gus Headley was fined $400 by Del Mar’s stewards Sunday for harassing a groom, specifically, according to the statement of decision, “throwing straw which contained dog feces” into the tack room of the groom, Alejandro Alvarez, while Alvarez was in the room.
Bob Baffert will seek his eighth victory in the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Debutante for 2-year-old fillies on Saturday with Pretty N Cool, who will be seeking her third victory, all at this meet.
American Pharoah returned to Del Mar from Saratoga on Monday afternoon, walked Tuesday at the barn of trainer Bob Baffert, and was scheduled to do so again Wednesday. He was scheduled to return to the track to jog Thursday, and on Sunday, between races here, the Triple Crown winner will be paraded for fans.
Apprentice Harry Hernandez, who sustained a fractured wrist in last Friday’s final race at Gulfstream, was scheduled to see a specialist on Tuesday.
