Erupt proves wise investment at Longchamp
One of two horses supplemented for approximately $48,000, Erupt won Tuesday’s $666,840 Grand Prix de Paris for 3-year-old colts and fillies at Longchamp Racecourse.
Steve AndersenJul 14, 2015
One of two horses supplemented for approximately $48,000, Erupt won Tuesday’s $666,840 Grand Prix de Paris for 3-year-old colts and fillies at Longchamp Racecourse.
Free: Del Mar Horses to Watch for the week of July 13
Force the Pass, winner of the $1.25 million Belmont Derby, will likely make his next start in the Grade 1 Secretariat at Arlington Park on Aug. 15, according to trainer Alan Goldberg.
Trainer Alan Goldberg began serving a 15-day suspension Monday after test results showed Pool Winner, whom he trains, was over the permitted threshold level for phenylbutazone when she won the 11th race at Monmouth Park on June 13.
Horacio De Paz has the best of both worlds in his new position as trainer for historic Sagamore Farm in Reisterstown, Md. He gets to train some of Sagamore’s horses and also break and develop the farm’s young stock. Sagamore also has horses with trainers Graham Motion and Joe Orseno.
Papacoolpapacool is expected to be strongly favored in the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes, a mile turf race for 3-year-olds which is the traditional opening-day feature at Del Mar.
After a down year in 2014, Jamie Ness has already won 122 races this year, and has been the leading trainer at Tampa Bay Downs and Pimlico. He is currently second in the standings at Delaware Park, third at Monmouth Park, and is active at the recently opened Laurel Park meet.
Considering that the winners of five of the last six Triple Crown races – American Pharoah and California Chrome – ran at Del Mar during the summer as 2-year-olds, there is a compelling reason to pay close attention to what transpires at Del Mar with 2-year-olds over the next seven-plus weeks, beginning Thursday.
It’s okay to haze the new kid a little bit. Go ahead and nail his desk drawer shut. Cram a live chicken in his locker. Have him paged by the principal, all day long. But what they did last summer to David Jerkens in his first season as Del Mar racing secretary went way too far.
Total betting on races in Hong Kong in fiscal year 2014-15 rose to a record for a second year in a row, according to figures distributed by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.