Mubtaahij stays busy
An official three furlong breeze by the busy Mubtaahij and an unofficial one from Tale of Verve highlighted yet another rather uneventful morning on the Belmont Stakes watch in New York.
Mike WelschMay 27, 2015
An official three furlong breeze by the busy Mubtaahij and an unofficial one from Tale of Verve highlighted yet another rather uneventful morning on the Belmont Stakes watch in New York.
Trainer Eric Reed has been “shopping around” for the right spot to get Street of Gold back on the winning track. It looks like he’s found one in Friday’s $60,000 Amelia Island Handicap.
M B Prize, a speedy 3-year-old filly trained by the meet co-leading trainer Jon Arnett, towers over her seven Iowa-bred rivals in Friday’s $60,000 Bob Bryant Stakes.
Strict Compliance, a winner of consecutive races at Gulfstream Park and Keeneland this year, will make her stakes debut in Saturday’s $150,000 Penn Oaks at Penn National and not the $400,000 American Oaks at Santa Anita, trainer Chad Brown said on Wednesday.
He may be new to Kentucky racing fans, but this sure isn’t the first rodeo for Joe Kristufek, whose image and voice have become a daily staple this spring at Churchill Downs by way of the simulcast signal.
A sextet of juveniles tied for the fastest time over one furlong on Tuesday during the Barretts May 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale under-tack show, stopping the clock in :10 seconds flat.
A catalog of 485 weanlings and yearlings will be on offer during the Japan Racing Horse Association July select sale, including several horses with North American ties. Among the horses cataloged are a pair of yearlings from the first crop of I’ll Have Another, winner of the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, who entered stud in Japan upon his retirement. He stands at Big Red Farm in Hokkaido.
Trainer Todd Pletcher competed against Mylute numerous times while on the Triple Crown trail in 2013 and again last season in the older handicap division. On Friday, Pletcher will not rooting against Mylute but for him when he sends him out for the first time from his own barn in the afternoon’s $85,000 allowance feature at Belmont Park.
Trainer Marvin Johnson saddles Wild About Irene (#2, ML 12-1) in Wednesday’s seventh race at Indiana Grand, a six-furlong optional claimer. Since Jan. 1, 2014, Johnson is winning at a 35 percent clip when saddling a horse switching from route to sprint, for a return on investment of $3.90.
Mia’s Miracle will try for the hat trick when he runs in a $17,500 claiming race on Friday at Northlands Park. His task will be made difficult by Espresso Springs and Lovely Start, however. The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew five horse and goes as race 2 on an eight-race card that begins at 6:30 p.m. Mountain.