Ghost Locket ($25.20) responded to an aggressive ride from jockey Shane Laviolette to register a half-length win in Friday night's $100,000 Saylorville, a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares.
Delaunay seized command from the outset and bounded clear for a 5 1/4-length tally in Friday’s $125,000 Iowa Sprint Handicap, the featured event on opening night of the Iowa Festival of Racing.
Diva's Diamond finished strongly to prevail by a neck in a dramatic finish to Friday night's $100,000 Iowa Distaff, winning the race for the second consecutive year.
Sunday is not an easy day at Belmont Park. I think a lot of the races are wide open. I am going to try to key a pick three on races 4-6 around Unbridled Juan in the final leg.
Some competitive races toward the back of this closing-day program give a late pick three some appeal.
Lone Star Park was forced to cancel its fifth through ninth races Friday night due to heavy rains and lightning, according to Diantha Brazzell, spokeswoman for the Grand Prairie, Texas, track. It was the fifth full or partial card cancellation at the meet, she said. The cancellations have all come at the hands of inclement weather.
Obrigado and driver Mark MacDonald were insistent on getting the front and once in command never looked back to win a leg of the TVG Free-For-All trot at the Meadowlands on Friday night.
The Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association successfully lobbied the Illinois Racing Board in a meeting this past Tuesday not to permit Arlington to run fewer than eight races per day, saying that if overall purse expenditures at the ongoing meet had to be reduced, they would prefer a purse cut to an immediate reduction in racing opportunities.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Monday 6/29 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Monday 6/29 card at Yonkers Raceway.
