Si Sage will skip Whittingham, point to shorter stakes
Si Sage, the winner of the Grade 3 Last Tycoon Stakes on April 25, will not start in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita on May 24.
Steve AndersenMay 17, 2015
Si Sage, the winner of the Grade 3 Last Tycoon Stakes on April 25, will not start in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita on May 24.
Dan Excel became the first horse to win consecutive runnings of the $3.95 million Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji Racecourse in Singapore on Sunday, leading throughout for a half-length win over Military Attack, the winner of the race in 2013.
Since returning to Santa Anita from Dubai, Distinctiv Passion has worked so well that trainer Jeff Bonde is planning a start in the $100,000 Los Angeles Stakes on May 25.
American Pharoah can run. And, after this race, we also know he can swim. Braving conditions even more treacherous than what he encountered in his 3-year-old debut in the Rebel Stakes, American Pharoah rolled to a seven-length victory, and now moves on to the Belmont Stakes with a chance to become the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years.
It’s not Big Apple Showcase Day, but New York-breds dominate the Sunday program at Belmont Park. All five non-claiming races are for statebreds, including the first three legs of the late pick four, which we will take a swing at here.
American Pharoah is off to New York to try for the Triple Crown – but first, a return to Louisville.
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The favored Polar Plunge ($4.80) responded in a determined fashion for a head victory in Saturday's $60,000 Lady Slipper Stakes, a six-furlong race for Minnesota-bred fillies and mares.
Bee A Magician, with regular driver Brian Sears in the sulky, blew away a field of top trotters to easily score in the $183,650 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial at the Meadowlands on Saturday night. Undefeated in 2013 during a Horse of the Year campaign, Bee A Magician won for the third straight time as a five-year-old with this perhaps her most impressive effort in some time.
Under the dark skies over Pimlico, American Pharoah shone brightly in the Preakness. He not only displayed his usual high speed, but he was the only one of the key contenders who handled with aplomb the wind, the driving rain, the mu,d and even a lightning flash right at post time.