Searings part ways with trainer Sadler
Owners Lee and Susan Searing and trainer John Sadler have parted company after a 17-year relationship, Lee Searing and John Sadler said Sunday.
Steve AndersenMay 31, 2015
Owners Lee and Susan Searing and trainer John Sadler have parted company after a 17-year relationship, Lee Searing and John Sadler said Sunday.
“And that’s that” is how Woodbine’s longtime announcer, Dan Loiselle, wrapped up his final race call in Sunday’s $125,400 Lady Angela Stakes. Galina Point got up in time to prevail by a head over River Maid in the seven-furlong event, but all ears were on the retiring Loiselle, who decided not to use his patented phrase “picture time,” and just called the winner.
Si Sage, the winner of the Grade 3 Last Tycoon Stakes at Santa Anita on April 26, has been sidelined by a recent bout with colic that required hospitalization, trainer Darrell Vienna said on Sunday.
Catch a Flight, the winner of Saturday’s $200,750 Californian Stakes for older horses, is a changed horse since his American career began last winter.
Hollywood Park ceases to exist. Shortly after dawn on Sunday, the grandstand of the closed racetrack was demolished in a series of implosions, leveling the massive grandstands. The destruction was extensively covered by Los Angeles television stations.
For a man on the verge of making racing history, now less than one week away from attempting to complete the Triple Crown on Saturday with American Pharoah in the Belmont Stakes, trainer Bob Baffert couldn’t have been more relaxed or in better spirits than he was Sunday morning at Churchill Downs.
New Bay, making just his fourth career start and winning for only the second time, powered down the center of the Chantilly homestretch Sunday and won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) by 1 1/2 lengths over Highland Reel.
Magic Tonight took on all comers and refused to be defeated in the 2015 Elitloppet at Sovalla in Sweden on Sunday. The 6-year-old son of Andover Hall took home the race for the best trotters in the world in front of a crowd of 26,842.
There are some shaky morning-line favorites early on the program, and I may be tempted to make some token plays against the likes of BRENDAN G in the opener and PRIMA STORM in the second race.
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