An epidemiologist who is examining data on fatal injuries in racehorses will provide an updated analysis of the figures at the July 8 Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit at Keeneland.
Trainer Graham Motion saddles Eyeful (#6, 7-5) in Friday’s second race at Belmont Park, a seven-furlong optional claimer on turf. Motion is winning at a 27 percent clip when saddling a horse getting first-time Lasix, for a $2.85 ROI.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, June 13th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
A Massachusetts horse trainer on Thursday urged the state’s gambling commission to reject a plan by Suffolk Downs and the state’s horsemen’s organization to run a three-day meet at the track this summer.
Twentytwentyvision (#2, ML 3-1) returns in Friday’s seventh race at Santa Anita, a one-mile optional claimer on turf. It will be his first start since finishing first by 1 3/4 lengths in an optional claimer May 8 at Santa Anita. The third- and fifth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
Trainer Carl O’Callaghan, suspended by Santa Anita stewards on Sunday for failing to appear at a hearing regarding an unpaid debt, was restored to good standing on Thursday after he reached a financial agreement with the backstretch supply company Angel’s Feed.
Saturday’s card at Santa Anita features two graded stakes events, and I’ll use both of them in individual daily double wagers.
E F Five has been an Aspen regular for the past four years, and on Saturday at Arapahoe Park he will attempt to win the $40,000 stakes for the third time in his career.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends for June 4 to June 7, 2015.
Grade 1 winner Gemologist will shuttle to Haras Santa Olga Farm in Santiago, Chile to stand his first Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
