Valenzuela loses bid to resume riding
The California Horse Racing Board has rejected a request by jockey Patrick Valenzuela to allow the troubled rider to resume his career.
Steve AndersenJul 31, 2015
The California Horse Racing Board has rejected a request by jockey Patrick Valenzuela to allow the troubled rider to resume his career.
DRF handicapper Michael Hammersly outlines his best plays for Saturday's program at Del Mar.
Kharafa has an excellent chance to win the first graded stakes of his career in the $150,000 Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth Park.
The Royal Ascot winners Amazing Maria and Ervedya meet for the first time in Sunday’s $330,000 Prix Rothschild for fillies and mares at a mile on turf at Deauville Racecourse in France.
Edwin Moses, the two-time Olympic gold medal winner who now is chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, will be one of two featured speakers at this year’s Jockey Club Round Table on Matters Pertaining to Racing on Aug. 9 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., The Jockey Club announced Friday.
Bradester, who ended Red Vine’s three-race winning streak in the Salvator Mile and took a 2-1 lead over third-place Valid in their head-to-head races at Monmouth Park, is rematched with that familiar foe Sunday in the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup.
Gimme Da Lute will be a heavy favorite in the Real Good Deal Stakes for 3-year-old state-breds at seven furlongs. Already this year, Gimme Da Lute has won the $200,000 Echo Eddie Stakes for California-breds at Santa Anita in April, the Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes there in June, and the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Derby on July 4.
Trainer Mike Pender was fined $5,000 on Thursday after reaching a settlement agreement with the California Horse Racing Board regarding an infraction for benefiting financially while under suspension in 2014, according to a ruling issued by Del Mar stewards.
Wild Dude and Masochistic, the first two finishers in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes on July 26 at Del Mar, are going their separate ways.
Moulin de Mougin, who won the Grade 2 John Mabee Stakes at Del Mar in 2014 and three other races in a 16-race career, has been retired because of concern over the condition of an ankle, trainer Richard Mandella said.