Bakken (#6, ML 7-5) returns in Thursday’s eighth race at Belmont Park, a six-furlong optional claimer. It will be his first start since finishing second by 3/4 lengths in an optional claimer May 1 at Belmont Park. The first-, third-, and fourth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
Bob Pandolfo's sharp horses and track trends for June 11 to June 14, 2015.
A Kentucky circuit court judge has thrown out a one-year suspension levied by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in 2014 on trainer Daniel Werre, citing the commission’s improper reclassification of a drug found in one of Werre’s horses after a race at Turfway Park in 2012.
With the baby race season just in its infancy, the resurgence of the great racehorse and sire Somebeachsomewhere is becoming increasingly obvious.
A day after the highest-priced offering in the history of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale left the ring, another juvenile tied the record, hammering for $575,000 during Wednesday’s session. The Into Mischief colt sold to Frank Fletcher Racing Operations and tied a Scat Daddy colt who sold to Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum on Tuesday as the auction’s all-time most expensive offerings.
JK Endofanera may be trainer Ron Burke's best chance to capture the 3rd leg of the Graduate series at The Meadowlands.
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Friday 6/19 card at The Meadowlands.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Friday 6/19 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Friday 6/19 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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