Judy the Beauty, the champion filly and mare sprinter of 2014, moved another step closer to her 2015 debut after working six furlongs in 1:12.70 at Churchill Downs over a “good” track on Monday.
Tonalist, last year’s Belmont Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, will be returning to Belmont Park from Florida this weekend, trainer Christophe Clement said Monday, though where the multiple Grade 1 stakes winner will make his return to the races is still not decided.
Indiana Grand Racecourse commences its 2015 racing season Tuesday, with a new summer date for the Indiana Derby, an attractive and stable purse structure - and one nagging issue that won’t go away.
Victory Mast figures to be a short price when he runs in a $16,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up at Gulfstream Park Wednesday. The mile and a sixteenth race on the turf , which is restricted to horses that have never won two races, kicks off the eight-race card.
Santa Anita completed its 68-day winter-spring meeting on Sunday with increases in all-sources handle and attendance but a decline in ontrack handle, track officials said.
For the better part of the last four years, Bolt The Duer has had to compete and contend with one of the greatest pacing classes of the last 20 years. The son of Ponder appeared on the doorstep of greatness so many times, but at each juncture there was a horse as fast, as tough, and as durable to keep him from reaching the pinnacle of success.
The reigning Trotter of the Year, Shake It Cerry, will make her 2015 debut on Friday evening at The Meadows in the $51,100 Meadows Maturity. The Jimmy Takter-trained mare will tackle a field of eight competitors including Classic Martine.
They start playing out the string at the Keeneland spring meet Wednesday as folks on the Kentucky circuit get ready to move westward to Churchill Downs. Three straight allowances anchor an abbreviated eight-race card that kicks off the final three-day stretch of a meet that ends Friday.
King Leatherbury, the fourth-winningest trainer in history, made good on his first appearance on the Hall of Fame ballot by being voted into the Hall of Fame along with the late jockey Chris Antley, and the horses Lava Man and Xtra Heat, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame announced on Monday morning.
Eric Hamelback, the general manager of Adena Springs in Kentucky, has been hired to be the chief executive of the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, the organization announced on Monday.
