Harness: PA Harness Week for April 11
Each week DRF Harness will bring you PA Harness Week. This 30-minute show highlights the best of Pennsylvania harness racing as well as what is happening on the national scene.
webmasterApr 10, 2015
Each week DRF Harness will bring you PA Harness Week. This 30-minute show highlights the best of Pennsylvania harness racing as well as what is happening on the national scene.
Via Strata, an eight-length winner of a second-level allowance race at Keeneland on Thursday, could make her next start in the Grade 2, $250,000 Ruffian Handicap at Belmont Park on May 9, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Friday.
La Verdad, who won the Grade 2 Distaff Handicap and five other races last year, will likely make her 5-year-old debut in next Saturday’s renewal of the $200,000 Distaff
While the Kentucky Derby points list continues to take shape, so too are horsemen assessing the prospective field for its sister race, the May 1 Kentucky Oaks.
Wicked Strong had his first workout since returning to New York from Florida, breezing five furlongs in 1:01.55 over the Belmont Park training track on Thursday. What he is working toward is a question that has yet to be answered.
Three fillies – Cat Coin, Queens Ring, and Rouge Buck – risk unbeaten records in Sunday’s $1,533,842 Japanese 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Hanshin Racecourse. Prerace expectations suggest that one of them will remain unbeaten after the Grade 1 race at about a mile on a right-handed turf course.
Ocho Ocho Ocho, third in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 4, will have his next start at Churchill Downs on May 2.
The Breeders’ Cup has designated eight new stakes as Win and You’re In races for the 2015 event, the organization announced on Friday, bringing the total number of 2015 stakes races guaranteeing a berth in the event’s 13 races to 78.
Rafael Bejarano, the runaway leader in the jockey standings at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, has withdrawn an appeal of a three-day suspension, track stewards announced in a ruling on Thursday.
Secret Circle, who won the $2 million Golden Shaheen in Dubai on March 28, resumed exercise at Santa Anita on Friday and could return to racing in early June in New York, trainer Bob Baffert said.