Get Happy Mister, the winner of the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes at Santa Anita on April 19, has remained with trainer Mark Tsagalakis in Southern California for an expected start at Los Alamitos or Del Mar in coming months.
Treve, so slow to find herself last year at 4, returned for her 5-year-old season with an emphatic win Friday at Saint-Cloud in the Group 2 Prix Corrida. Her 2015 campaign began with a resounding victory, and her connections hope to cap it with a third straight win in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Molly Morgan was what trainer Dale Romans called “a big-day performer.” The 6-year-old Molly Morgan was retired this week due to injury, with her final record standing at eight wins in 29 starts and $882,159 in earnings.
Emerald Downs has a new voice. Matt Dinerman, a 22-year-old San Diego native who wowed Emerald officials during a recent audition, has been hired as the replacement for longtime track announcer Robert Geller, who leaves for Woodbine next month.
immy Graham said he intends to ride this summer at Del Mar in Southern California, where Brad Pegram has agreed to take his book.
California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, is scheduled to have a workout at Ascot, England, on Thursday in advance of a scheduled start in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at the same venue on June 17. Jockey Frankie Dettori is scheduled to work California Chrome and may ride the popular 4-year-old in the Prince of Wales’s at 1 1/4 miles on turf, trainer Art Sherman said.
Oliver’s Tale makes his stakes debut in Sunday’s $75,000 Siren Lure Stakes on Santa Anita’s hillside turf course, a race that fits well in the 6-year-old’s schedule, according to owner and trainer Mark Tsagalakis.
U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, a New York Democrat representing the district that includes Saratoga Springs, plans to introduce a bill that would create a federal panel that would craft the sport’s medication policies and direct the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a private company, to enforce the policies, the congressman announced on Friday.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 5/31 card at Balmoral Park.
Lady Eli will try to stretch out a little longer, first in Sunday’s $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Belmont Park and again in five weeks in the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Oaks Invitational at 1 1/4 miles, also at Belmont.
