My Sweet Addiction’s next race has not been determined, trainer Marty Jones. The options include the $100,000 Adoration Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita, or the $200,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs.
Far Right, 15th in the Kentucky Derby in his last start, is “all systems go” for the June 20 Ohio Derby, said trainer Ron Moquett. The winner of the Smarty Jones and Southwest stakes at Oaklawn this past winter, Far Right already has breezed three times since the Kentucky Derby.
Former NBA Commissioner David Stern had some advice for racing: Clean up your act if you want to improve the prospects for racing, and you need to do that before you can market it. Well, he did not say those exact words Friday, but those in attendance at the inaugural Pan American Conference, held in New York City on Thursday and Friday, could well take away that message.
Work All Week came out of his runner-up finish in the Aristides last weekend at Churchill Downs in good order and will be considered for either of two upcoming stakes, trainer Roger Brueggemann said Friday from the Trackside training center. Those six-furlong races are the $125,000 Iowa Sprint Handicap on June 26 at Prairie Meadows and the Grade 2, $250,000 Smile Sprint on July 5 at Gulfstream Park.
Gas Total has never run 1 1/2 miles on turf, an assignment she faces for the first time in Sunday’s $75,000 Possibly Perfect Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.
Trainer Christophe Clement won last year’s Monmouth Stakes with Speaking of Which and will be represented Sunday by Middleburg, who finished a troubled third last time out in the Grade 3 Fort Marcy Stakes at Belmont Park on May 2.
There’s something for horseplayers of all wagering persuasions on this 13-race Belmont Stakes card, whether they like to shoot for the moon in the four guaranteed multirace exotic pools or make solid percentage plays on legit favorites, or both.
There are a lot of people excited about Urban Achiever arriving at Hastings this weekend. A 2-year-old colt by Idiot Proof, Urban Achiever is the first horse owned by the Hastings Racing Club.
Lea will make his first start since finishing third in the March 28 Dubai World Cup against the Todd Pletcher-trained pair of Commissioner and Protonico in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs next Saturday night, June 13.
Prospect Park starts over Sunday at Santa Anita, where the former Kentucky Derby candidate will be tough to beat in a small field of 3-year-olds that entered the Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes.
