Lopez has a big weekend
What looked like an evenly matched jockey colony early in the Monmouth Park meet is once again turning into the Paco Lopez show.
Jim DunleavyJun 30, 2015
What looked like an evenly matched jockey colony early in the Monmouth Park meet is once again turning into the Paco Lopez show.
Los Alamitos officials face the challenge of convincing owners and trainers to stop and run horses on their way from Santa Anita to Del Mar as well as the challenge of drawing the attention of fans eager to spend time at the San Diego beachside track.
There are big races planned at Monmouth Park, Parx Racing, and Finger Lakes over the holiday weekend. Monmouth is scheduled to run four stakes, topped by the Grade 1, $500,000 United Nations Stakes on Sunday. The U.N., a 1 3/8-mile turf race, is a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
Wise Dan has begun daily galloping at his home base of Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., as trainer Charlie LoPresti begins thinking about a possible next race for the two-time Horse of the Year.
The $300,000 Zia Park Oaks will again serve as the richest race at the Hobbs, N.M., track when it has its third running on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 25. The Oaks is part of a 33-race, $4 million stakes schedule Zia announced on Monday, with 19 of the stakes for Thoroughbreds.
Hard Aces won the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on Saturday to highlight a big day for sire Hard Spun. According to Daily Racing Form's SirePowered Results, Darley's son of Danzig was represented by three winners on Saturday.
The U.S. Department of Labor has sued trainer Steve Asmussen with allegations that his stable is breaking federal labor law by not paying proper overtime to workers at Churchill Downs, in a lawsuit filed late last week in U.S. District Court in Louisville, Ky.
Legendary equine cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq and Eclipse Award-winning writer Bill Heller will be honored at the Equine Advocates annual awards dinner and charity auction
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission unanimously approved on Monday a series of amendments to the Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders’ Incentive Fund, including measures to allow pregnant mares covered by a Kentucky stallion and purchased at a public auction outside of the state to nominate for the fund.
Embattled trainer Juan Vazquez has been indefinitely barred from the grounds of Delaware Park.