Ethan’s Baby is likely to be a prohibitive favorite Sunday in the $50,000 Irish Day Handicap at Emerald Downs. First post for the 10-race card is 2 p.m. Pacific, and the Irish Day, for 3-year-old fillies at one mile, is the ninth race on the program.
The Downs at Albuquerque saw increases in handle and purse distribution during its 39-date spring mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses that ended June 18, according to a release from the New Mexico track. Albuquerque handled an average of $207,375 per day on its races from all sources, up from $165,683 at the corresponding meet in 2014. Purses averaged $173,592 per program, up from $162,853 per card in 2014.
Ivan Fallunovalot is gearing up for a fall campaign that could include stakes at Del Mar and Remington Park, trainer Tom Howard said Friday. The multiple stakes winner’s options include the Bing Crosby, as well as the David M. Vance and Remington Park Sprint Cup. Ivan Fallunovalot is based at Lone Star Park.
Between July 2 and July 12 Los Alamitos is running the first of its three mini-meets created from the Hollywood Park dates that neither Santa Anita nor Del Mar wanted to run, as well as the abandonment of racing by Fairplex Park. Blink and you miss this one, though, which is exactly why Los Alamitos is pulling out its promotional stops to lure warm bodies to the opening weekend.
American trainer Wesley Ward has a good thing going.
The Breeders’ Cup announced that registration is now open for the seventh annual Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge, presented by West Point Thoroughbreds.
Diligence of horse owners in keeping their horses free of parasites has resulted in overuse of dewormers. As a result, resistance to current classes of dewormers is a mounting problem worldwide, especially in roundworms and strongyles.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 6/28 card at Balmoral Park.
American Pharoah was as much of an ambassador for racing as an athlete on Friday morning at Santa Anita.
Darren Fox has been appointed sales manager of Darley’s American stallion division at Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky.
