Room for Me ruled ineligible to run Wednesday
Room for Me, the 3-5 morning-line favorite, will be scratched from Wednesday’s $72,000 third race at Aqueduct because she is ineligible, the New York stewards confirmed Monday.
David GreningApr 13, 2015
Room for Me, the 3-5 morning-line favorite, will be scratched from Wednesday’s $72,000 third race at Aqueduct because she is ineligible, the New York stewards confirmed Monday.
Things are going so well for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin this month that he was hoping for a slight change to the racing calendar. “I want to see if they could move the [Kentucky] Derby to the fourth Saturday in April,” he joked Monday morning at Belmont.
After 35 races in which horses could earn points toward a berth in the Kentucky Derby on May 2, the prospective field is largely set, though the final composition of the maximum 20-horse field could undergo a few tweaks over the next 2 1/2 weeks, since there are a handful of horses currently in the body of the race whose status is cloudy.
Turf racing returns to New York on Wednesday with three races scheduled for the grass, including a $75,000 second-level allowance in which – no surprise – trainer Christophe Clement has the horse to beat.
Top Billing closed stoutly when beaten a nose by Noble Bird in a second-level allowance here last week, and he might run back for the same condition or could jump back into stakes company.
The racing future of Misconnect is in doubt after the ridgling suffered a fractured sesamoid to his left foreleg last month.
Arnaud and Leigh Delacour have made Tampa Bay Downs their winter home since the 2007-08 season, and during that time horseplayers have learned runners from the Delacour operation should never be taken lightly.
Imagine two intense rivals battling head and head to the finish. That is the essence of horse racing, and as the Tampa Bay Downs race meeting heads into its final three weeks, a pair of very intense competitors are battling for the top spot in the race for leading trainer.
Brad Free's Santa Anita Horses to Watch
The winners on another eventful stakes weekend at Keeneland emerged in good shape, and all will go their separate ways in the coming weeks.