Wise Dan was sent through what Charlie LoPresti called a “very strong” workout Monday at Keeneland as the two-time Horse of the Year continues to build fitness and momentum toward his much-awaited return to racing.
One Destiny (#13, ML 5-1) returns in Wednesday's eighth race at Woodbine, a seven-furlong claiming race on the all-weather track. It will be his first start since finishing third by 5 1/2 lengths in a claiming race June 28 at Woodbine. The first- and second-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.
A colt from the first crop of Country Day brought $27,500 on Sunday to top the Oklahoma City summer yearling sale put on by Carter Sales Co. The auction also included two horses of racing age, with one selling, a Smoke Glacken filly who brought $20,000.
Hogan: How I'd play Del Mar for Thursday, Aug. 20.
Jockey Weldon Cloninger Jr., who rode regularly in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the Southwest, died Sunday of cancer at Cleveland Clinic Hospital. He was 46.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday approved a raft of amendments to its medication rules and penalties schedule in an attempt to address a recent court case and move the state further toward adoption of a uniform rules policy for horse racing.
Looking for value in the Saratoga pick threes, and this mid-card sequence may be the best shot at it.
Playing Del Mar has been fun so far this meet, and as we head into the weekend of the Pacific Classic, I expect the good times to continue.
The four-race win streak Covert Love has compiled this year began in a modest maiden race on the all-weather surface at Chemlsford City, near London, in early May. The winning streak may be extended when Covert Love starts as the favorite in Thursday’s Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks at York Racecourse in northern England.
Day 2 of the post-Million phase of the Arlington meet came up sparkling, Thursday’s program headed by a graded stakes-class turf-sprint allowance, race 7 on an eight-race card. Also included on the menu are two second-level allowance races (a rare bird this season) going as races 4 and 5.
