Retired Hall of Fame jockey Randy Romero said Wednesday from a Lafayette, La., hospital that doctors have not been able to confirm whether his stomach tumor is cancerous, but they intend to perform surgery as soon as possible for a definitive diagnosis.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Friday 5/22 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Friday 5/22 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Majestic Harbor achieved the rare feat of winning back-to-back off-the-turf allowances within the same month, doing so as the lone main-track-only designee in short fields at Keeneland on April 4 and at Churchill Downs on opening night, April 25.
Tim Boyce has been named sales director of the Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana, the subsidiary of the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association announced. Boyce joins the organization after serving as the Fasig-Tipton Texas sales director for 19 years. Fasig-Tipton recently closed its operation in Texas.
Carve is thriving coming into Monday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Lone Star Park Handicap, trainer Brad Cox said. The horse invading from Churchill Downs will enter the meet’s most prestigious event off a runner-up finish to Race Day in last month’s Grade 2, $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap.
Stakes winners Notacatbutallama and Reload return from layoffs of varying degrees as they try to jumpstart their careers in a $90,000 fourth-level allowance race scheduled for a mile on the turf Friday at Belmont Park.
Horses to watch from Mohawk Racetrack.
There will be no shortage of 2-year-old Quarter Horses chasing the enhanced purse of the $3 million All American Futurity this meet at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico as trials for the track’s first major race for the division drew a record 311 entrants.
