Sustainability (#8, ML 5-2) makes his return in Wednesday’s seventh race at Gulfstream Park, a 1 1/16-mile maiden claimer on turf. It will be his first start since a fourth-place finish by two lengths in a one-mile maiden race on turf April 22 at Gulfstream Park. The third- and sixth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
Canterbury Park looks forward to another prosperous season when its 25th racing season begins this Friday night at 6:40 p.m. Central.
Stakes winner Mischief Clem has been turned out and will miss the $200,000 Snow Chief Stakes next Saturday, May 23.
Canterbury Park kicks off its 25th racing season Friday night with an eight-race card highlighted by a competitive renewal of the $60,000 10,000 Lakes, a six-furlong stakes for Minnesota-bred colts and geldings.
Black Bird Rock has earned a solid living while competing for a $62,500 tag in second-level optional-claiming company, and should be favored in such a spot going seven furlongs on Friday at Woodbine.
A full sister to California Chrome, last year's Kentucky Derby winner and Horse of the Year, makes her debut in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden race for 2-year-old fillies Friday at Golden Gate Fields.
Down Town Allen, a favorite at Charles Town where she won 24 of 38 starts dating back to 2009, was euthanized Monday due to injuries she suffered during the Original Gold Stakes on the April 18 Charles Town Classic card.
Trainer Robin Graham cross-entered her promising 3-year-old filly Gypsy Judy in both the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan and the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes on turf at Pimlico on Friday. On Tuesday, Graham said Gypsy Judy would run in the $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan at 1 1/8 miles.
When one of the top three finishers from a race in a horse’s past performances wins next out, that horse’s name becomes italicized in the company lines – highlighting the race as potentially being of above-average quality. Sugar Sweet, one of 11 fillies and mares entered in a second-level optional claimer that goes as the seventh of eight races Thursday evening at Churchill Downs, shows exactly that in her PPs – with the horse that was third behind her on March 6 at Fair Grounds, Sweet Basil, being italicized after winning an optional claimer on April 11 at Gulfstream Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Classic Day is Saturday at Pimlico for the Preakness Stakes. Carryover Day is Thursday at Santa Anita, where the pick six begins with a pool of $129,769 and the Super High 5 starts with $27,421.
