Eskenformoney tunes up for Kentucky Oaks
At Palm Beach Downs on Friday, trainer Todd Pletcher sent out his Kentucky Oaks hopeful Eskenformoney to breeze an easy four furlongs in 49.58 seconds in company with Curalina.
Mike WelschApr 17, 2015
At Palm Beach Downs on Friday, trainer Todd Pletcher sent out his Kentucky Oaks hopeful Eskenformoney to breeze an easy four furlongs in 49.58 seconds in company with Curalina.
Racecaller Larry Collmus and turf writer John Scheinman have been selected to receive the Old Hilltop Award, which recognizes excellence in covering Thoroughbred racing, according to the administrator of the award, Pimlico Race Course.
Coronation Futurity winner Decision Day will begin his local preparation for the Queen’s Plate when he faces four rivals in the $100,000 Wando Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on Woodbine’s Polytrack on Sunday.
A key horse in the Grade 3 Santa Barbara (race 7) gives the pick three involving races 6-8 some appeal. The mare gives us a chance to take a stand and doesn’t figure to be too short a price to boot.
Atomicseventynine will return to action in Friday’s fourth race at Santa Anita, a one-mile optional claimer. It will be her first start since a first-place finish by 5 1/4 lengths in a one-mile race March 28 at Santa Anita. The second- and third-place finishers from that maiden race came back to win their next starts.
Any reservations trainer Rick Violette may have had regarding how his Kentucky Derby hopeful Upstart would be affected by the sinus infection he contracted over the weekend were erased in 59.47 seconds, the time it took the Florida Derby runner-up to work a half-mile and gallop out five furlongs Friday morning at Palm Meadows.
Los Alamitos has reduced the purse for the Los Alamitos Derby and the number of stakes for its two-week Thoroughbred meeting in July.
California Chrome is on schedule for a European debut in the $522,550 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in England on May 16, trainer Art Sherman said Thursday.
Rainbow Heir was named New Jersey’s 2014 Horse of the Year on the strength of a campaign highlighted by a pair of stakes victories at Monmouth Park
In each of the first four races Sunday at Keeneland, Mike Maker and his former assistant, Joe Sharp, both have scheduled starters. Maker has the morning-line favorite in every one of those races, while Sharp has the second choice in three of the four.