Omar looks like the one they will have to catch and beat in a $35,000 optional-claiming race that headlines the eight-race card at Northlands Park on Wednesday evening.
Calamity Kate pulled a major upset in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Delaware Oaks, triggering a $110.80 payout as the longest shot on the board. It was the first career stakes victory for the filly, who became the second graded stakes winner of 2015 for veteran sire Yes It’s True, according to Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results.
On Monday (July 13), 40 key industry stakeholders met in Columbus, Ohio, to exchange dozens of ideas on how to address the problem of declining foal crops and the challenge of attracting new owners to harness racing at a summit organized by the U.S. Trotting Association.
Los Alamitos ended its summer Thoroughbred meeting Sunday with a 12.7 percent increase in all-sources handle but a decline in attendance and ontrack handle compared with the corresponding meeting in 2014.
Grade 1 winner Strong Mandate will shuttle to Agricola Icha Solari Ltda. in Chile for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
Main Sequence, the champion turf horse and older male of 2014, was retired Monday with a tendon injury following his seventh-place finish in the July 5 United Nations Stakes.
Ron Gierkink's Woodbine horses to watch for the week of July 13.
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. August yearling sale is now available online, featuring 812 horses on offer.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 7/15 card at Northfield Park.
Rain, rain, and more rain has been the story of the last several weeks’ racing at Indiana Grand. Ten race cards have passed since the track last used its turf course back on June 24, and unfortunately the two Indiana-bred turf stakes Wednesday appear to be threatened by another washout.
