Five stakes winners, including one making her first start since last year’s Breeders’ Cup, hook up in Saturday’s $50,000 Camilla Urso at Golden Gate Fields. Living the Life is the headliner in the six-furlong race.
Dame Dorothy is a graded stakes winner. With her pedigree, what she most needs now is Grade 1 status. That is the reason trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Bobby Flay decided to send Dame Dorothy to a throw-down in California, in the Grade 1, $400,000 Santa Margarita Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita.
I expect American Pharoah to run huge in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park. The field is less than stellar. He looks like lone speed. And he is just that talented.
Race Day, who has been terrific in two starts since moving into Todd Pletcher’s barn, is my preference in Saturday’s Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn Park.
Steve Koch will leave his role as vice president of Thoroughbred racing with Woodbine Entertainment Group to become the executive director of the Safety and Integrity Alliance for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, the NTRA announced Thursday.
He needed 13 tries, but champion jockey A.P. McCoy scored his first winner of this week’s Cheltenham Festival when Uxizandre led throughout Thursday’s $470,250 Ryanair Chase at 2 1/2 miles at Cheltenham Racecourse.
In retrospect, it looks so simple. Untapable was the best 3-year-old filly in the country last year, had a near-perfect season that culminated in a victory over older rivals in the Breeders’ Cup, and was voted an Eclipse Award winner. In reality, things were not that straightforward.
The owner of Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack in Farmington, N.Y., has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the awarding of a casino license to a project slated for a property 25 miles from the track.
The best 3-year-olds at Turf Paradise, both male and female, get a crack at the grass Saturday in the $35,000 Tempe Handicap and $35,000 Scottsdale Handicap.
Sam Houston Race Park in Houston experienced a 15 percent increase in average daily handle on its live races during its 32-date Thoroughbred meet that closed Tuesday, the track announced. Sam Houston also experienced gains in average daily attendance and field size.
