Asia, a daughter of the speedy One Hot Wish, makes her much-awaited return to action in the lone allowance of a 10-race Friday card at Gulfstream, a $48,000 first-level allowance at five furlongs on the turf.
Eh Cumpari, the last-to-first winner of the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes here last Saturday on turf, will be given an opportunity on the Kentucky Derby trail, said trainer Michael Dilger.
I thought I would detail my five favorite harness racing experiences in this column. They run the gamut of my involvement in this great sport.
Todd Pletcher said the Grade 3 Ben Ali at Keeneland on April 11 could be next for General a Rod, winner of last Saturday's Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
Today, in the second week of March, Dortmund is absolutely my Kentucky Derby horse.
With both Materiality and Royal Son joining the Derby Watch top 20 this week, Todd Pletcher now has six runners on the list, headed by Carpe Diem, who won the Tampa Bay Derby last week.
Nobody was running any better at the end of the Grade 2 Risen Star than Keen Ice and trainer Dale Romans is expecting an even better performance when his top Kentucky Derby hopeful returns to Fair Grounds and stretches out another sixteenth of a mile later this month in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby.
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Parc Monceau, a dominant winner as the favorite in each of her first two starts at Delta Downs, figures to be a similar short price when she faces six other fillies and mares in Friday night’s $75,000 Gold Coast Stakes.
Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, sustained fractures in both of his legs during an accident in Canada on Monday and has been hospitalized, according to a spokesman for the former rider.
