Whenever trainer Armando de la Cerda comes to Woodbine from his Arlington base, it’s time sit up and take notice, and he sends out Tamazula in Friday’s headliner, a second-level optional claimer for fillies and mares.
Horses to watch from Mohawk Racetrack.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 7/2 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Thursday 7/2 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Multiple Grade 2 winner and globetrotting sire Twining died Sunday in Japan due to an aortic rupture.
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The 6-year-old State Treasurer, purchased for a mere $6,500 at the 2010 Standardbred Horse Sale, is a multiple-stakes-winner with more than $1 million in earnings. Last weekend, he won his elimination for Saturday’s $500,000 Ben Franklin Pace for older male pacers from post nine by a neck over Dynamic Youth in 1:50 3/5 over a sloppy track at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
After canceling its Monday and Tuesday cards due to a safety issue involving deer in its infield, along the outer rail of its backstretch, and crossing its racing surface, Presque Isle Downs plans to resume racing Wednesday with a new post time.
Work All Week not only won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and a division championship last year, he also has the distinction of not finishing worse than second in his last 15 starts coming into Sunday’s Grade 2 Smile Sprint. Like Work All Week, Grande Shores has also finished first or second in each of his last 15 starts, a skein that extends back to January 2014.
Kauto Star, the winner of two Cheltenham Gold Cup and 16 Grade 1 steeplechases in England and Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2011, was euthanized on Tuesday as a result of paddock injuries suffered last week.
Despite a purse cut revealed last weekend and sky-will-fall rhetoric as the race week expands from three days to four, the first Thursday card of the 2015 Arlington meeting looks pretty good.
