Jockeys Richard Eramia, Deshawn Parker, Luis Quinonez, Adrian Ramos, Ricardo Santana Jr., and Jamie Theriot are all named to ride horses on the Stars of Texas program Saturday night at Lone Star Park.
Ringneckdove will be making a couple of notable moves when she starts in the sixth race Friday at Louisiana Downs. She will be returning to dirt and shortening up in distance for the first-level allowance for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs.
The Pickett Factor might have positioned himself for a shot at stakes competition last Friday with a powerful second-level allowance win at Louisiana Downs. He was making his two-turn debut, and after tracking the pace early, the 3-year-old won by 5 3/4 lengths over older horses, earning a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 85.
Juan Vazquez, the trainer who has been banned from tracks across the mid-Atlantic, has been granted an appeal of a $2,000 fine for a positive drug test at Penn National Racecourse for a regulated medication that has a sedative effect, according to the Pennsylvania Racing Commission.
California Chrome was comfortably settled into the quarantine barn on the Arlington backstretch Wednesday after arriving Tuesday afternoon on a flight from Amsterdam.
The year has started somewhat slowly for Work All Week, one of two graded-stakes performers for the sprawling Midwest Thoroughbreds operation of Rich and Karen Papiese. But the other Midwest star of 2014, The Pizza Man, popped back into action this season in excellent form.
John Velazquez will ride Tonalist again in the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 8. He plans to ride him a little better than he did in the Grade 2 Suburban, when he made a premature move and was beaten a head by Effinex.
Horses that are at greater risk of suffering fatal injuries are becoming easier to identify because of the isolation of several high-risk factors gleaned from a six-year-old injury database, according to the epidemiologist analyzing the data for the U.S. racing industry.
Options abound for Ready for Rye, the Grade 2 Swale winner who on July 4 made a sparkling turf debut winning a second-level allowance race here by 2 3/4 lengths.
Wicked Strong did not find a soft spot in which to make his turf debut in Saturday’s $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes at Belmont Park.
