Brown has numbers going for him in Pennine Ridge
Trainer Chad Brown will apparently utilize the strength in numbers approach when it comes to Saturday’s $200,000 Pennine Ridge Stakes at Belmont Park.
David GreningMay 27, 2015
Trainer Chad Brown will apparently utilize the strength in numbers approach when it comes to Saturday’s $200,000 Pennine Ridge Stakes at Belmont Park.
Treve, the two-time winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, makes her 2015 debut on Friday at Saint-Cloud in the Group 2 Prix Corrida.
The supplemental catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age is now available online, featuring 21 juveniles and one older horse.
Pat Dupuy has been maximizing his opportunities. The veteran trainer typically trains just a horse or two at a time, but mostly because of a couple of promising 3-year-old fillies named I’m a Looker and Classy Corinthian, Dupuy has won at a nifty 29 percent rate (seven for his last 24) since last September. Having seen both through their first allowance condition in their respective last starts, Dupuy has entered them for Glenmare Farm as a stable coupling versus five other 3-year-old fillies in the $54,000 feature Friday at Churchill Downs – although Classy Corinthian, favorably drawn in the far outside post, likely will be his only starter.
On Wednesday, a field of 11 was entered for the third running of the $500,000 Penn Mile at Penn National Race Course. The Saturday evening card will have a first post of 6 p.m. and is front-loaded with an all-stakes pick four to begin the program.
Events unfold at a slower pace on the Santa Anita turf course these days. Since the start of the spring-summer meeting on April 24, final times of turf races have been noticeably slower than the last weeks of the track’s winter-spring meeting that ended on April 19. The slower times are a result of ongoing maintenance to avoid surface compaction, a rare May rainstorm that produced approximately an inch of rain, and cool recent weather.
Willcox Inn, a Grade 2 winner and first-year sire, was euthanized due to injuries from a paddock accident on May 24. The 7-year-old son of Harlan’s Holiday was finishing his debut season in the breeding shed at Saratoga Stud in Stillwater, N.Y., where he was standing for an advertised fee of $5,000.
Work All Week will start from the outside post in a field of seven older horses Saturday when making his first start since he won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint last fall. Bred and owned in Illinois by Midwest Thoroughbreds, the 6-year-old gelding will have Florent Geroux back aboard as a heavy favorite in the Grade 3, $100,000 Aristides.
At the finish of the Kentucky Derby, Keen Ice and Mubtaahij were separated by a half-length, or approximately four feet. On Thursday, with both preparing for the June 6 Belmont Stakes – and a second meeting with each other and Derby and Preakness winner American Pharoah – Keen Ice and Mubtaahij were separated by 772 miles and their trainers’ ideology.
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