Flashaway tries turf in featured allowance
The fast-working comebacker Flashaway makes his turf debut Friday at Woodbine in a featured first-level allowance.
Ron GierkinkMay 27, 2015
The fast-working comebacker Flashaway makes his turf debut Friday at Woodbine in a featured first-level allowance.
Horses to watch from Mohawk Racetrack.
For P H Supercam, the most dominant horse in the George Morton Levy series, post eight in the rich final proved his undoing. On Friday night, racing luck could be better as the Jeff Bamond Jr.-trained veteran goes for the upset in Friday’s $150,000 Molson Pace at Western Fair.
Laura’s Melody (#8, ML 9-2) and Roll On Red Raider (#3, ML 10-1) return in Wednesday’s eighth race at Albuquerque, a 6 1/2-furlong allowance. It will be their first starts since finishing fourth and fifth, respectively, in a six-furlong allowance April 19 at Albuquerque. The first-, second-, and third-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
Finger Lakes has canceled its Friday card due to a lack of entries. The first stakes of the meet, the $50,000 Susan B. Anthony, had been scheduled for Friday.
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Thursday 5/28 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 5/28 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
On Tuesday, an offshoot of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted to recommend the state adopt a two-tier threshold level for cobalt, the naturally occurring mineral shown to be abused worldwide in horseracing sports.
Dave Litfin's Horses to Watch at Belmont Park for the week of May 25.
Anybody looking for a reason to side against American Pharoah in his quest to win the Triple Crown in the June 6 Belmont Stakes surely couldn’t have found one after watching his half-mile breeze Tuesday morning from Churchill Downs.