Whether Talco can extend his winning streak to three races depends on his ability to show further improvement in a tough running of Saturday’s $100,000 American Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita.
A handful of 3-year-olds with graded stakes experience will see action in three separate overnight races that highlight the Saturday card at Gulfstream Park. Distinta, Desert Image, and Winter Dawn are up first, in a first-level optional $75,000 claiming sprint for 3-year-old fillies that goes as the fifth race.
Supermason was a memorable winner of the most recent race in the Texas Stallion Stakes series in February, and if he runs back to that performance in Saturday night’s $75,000 division for colts and geldings at Lone Star Park, he might be tough to contain. Supermason was a 14-length, front-running winner of the Sam Houston division and earned a career-high 91 Beyer Speed Figure.
I was impressed with Radiator’s recent U.S. debut at Keeneland, and she is my preference in Saturday’s Beaugay Stakes at Belmont Park.
When Monmouth Park begins its 70th season Saturday, there will be a few tweaks that should appeal to bettors, a new face in the announcer’s booth, and the return of a local hero to the jockey colony.
The speedy Shock Hazard, part of red-hot trainer Jon Arnett’s uncoupled trio of geldings, heads Saturday night’s $70,000-added John Wayne Stakes, a six-furlong sprint for Iowa-bred colts and geldings.
Trainer Anita Bolton is hoping Brother Duster can take his game to the next level when he runs in the first race Saturday at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-old non-winners of two or British Columbia-bred non-winners of three drew five horses. Post time for what appears to be a wide-open event is 1:50 p.m. Pacific.
he $75,000 Decathlon Stakes, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and upward, drew a competitive field of 14 on opening day Saturday at Monmouth Park.
Unspurned came out guns blazing in her season opener, winning the Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes in her first race with Lasix. She will try to double up Saturday at Woodbine in the Grade 3 Hendrie Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint with a base purse of $150,000.
After a cold winter in Arizona where he won just three races from 48 starts at Turf Paradise, trainer Greg Tracy is off to a hot start at Northlands Park, where he has equaled his win total in the desert from his first 11 starts in Edmonton. Last year he dominated the trainers’ standings at Northlands, and there is every indication he will do so again this year.
