Improvement projected for first-time gelding
Trainer Mike Machowsky expects Wanstead Gardens to race with more focus when he makes his first start as a gelding in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Thursday.
Steve AndersenMar 31, 2015
Trainer Mike Machowsky expects Wanstead Gardens to race with more focus when he makes his first start as a gelding in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Thursday.
Laurel Park concluded its winter meet, which ran from Jan. 1 to March 29, with a 14.6 percent gain in average daily handle.
The opening of Pimlico Race Course on Thursday, following seven months at Laurel Park, means spring is in the air – if not completely here yet - and that the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes is not far off.
While the majority of the New York-based horses stabled in south Florida for the winter are already heading home, trainers Christophe Clement and Bill Mott will each keep a large contingent behind for the next month. Both are hoping to take advantage of the grass races at Gulfstream Park.
Saratoga Snacks ended a 16-month win drought in his last race after being reunited with trainer Gary Sciacca. On Thursday, Saratoga Snacks will try to start a streak when he faces five rivals in a seven-furlong, no-conditions allowance for older New York-breds.
Far From Over, winner of the Grade 3 Withers Stakes and among the favorites for Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, is injured and off the Kentucky Derby trail, his connections said Tuesday.
Grade 2 winner and sire Sharp Humor was reported to have died March 18 at Let’s Run Stud Farm on Korea’s Jeju Island.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 4/1 card at Northfield Park.
Ike Walker, who has seen graded stakes rivals, and Caribbean Cowboy, who is undefeated in three starts, lead an optional $50,000 claiming allowance at Oaklawn on Wednesday. The race for 3-year-olds carries first-level allowance conditions.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 3/31 card at Yonkers Raceway.