The British-bred Casual Smile began her career in her native country but more recently has found a successful niche on the Jersey Shore. With the eyes of the racing world at Monmouth Park on Sunday, she’ll get a chance to score her first graded stakes victory in the Grade 3, $150,000 Matchmaker Stakes for fillies and mares on turf.
Diamonds Dena has been a completely different horse since she arrived at Emerald Downs this spring, and she looks like the horse to beat in a one-mile, $25,000 starter optional claimer that headlines the 10-race card Sunday.
A winner of six straight races last year, Bearrock N Roll will be trying to get another streak going when he runs in a $16,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up Sunday at Hastings.
New guaranteed pools are being added to tracks' wagering menus.
On paper it’s a class hike for the mare Aguafria, but after facing stakes types in Southern California she may appreciate this placement in Sunday’s $50,000 Luther Burbank Handicap at Santa Rosa.
Florida Won earned a career-best 101 Beyer Speed Figure in his runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Dominion Day on July 1, and will be looking to turn the tables on Red Rifle in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Seagram Cup Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on Polytrack at Woodbine.
Free: Del Mar daily double play for Saturday, Aug. 1
Illman: Saratoga pick four play for Friday, July 31
Epiphaneia, winner of the 2014 Japan Cup, has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Shadai Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan in 2016.
The catalog for the 2015 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s British Columbia Division yearling and mixed sale is now available online, with 91 offerings entered.
