In addition to winning the Santa Anita Handicap with Shared Belief on Saturday, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer captured the San Carlos Stakes with the sprinter Wild Dude, who returned to his best form while making his second start following a nine-month layoff.
With the local older fillies and mares lacking a clear-cut leader until two-time champion Beholder gets back to the races, a number of runners from out of state are set to invade Santa Anita for Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Santa Margarita Stakes, the championship race of the meet for the division.
He’s won down the hill, he’s won going 1 1/16 miles, but the sweet spot for Boozer, trainer Mark Glatt believes, is a mile. That, not coincidentally, is the distance he will be asked to travel on turf in Thursday’s featured seventh race at Santa Anita.
For the seventh consecutive year, Charles Town will renew its partnership with CANTER Mid-Atlantic to help transition former racehorses into new careers off the racetrack.
Due to lost training days resulting from recent winter weather, Laurel Park has rescheduled two $100,000 stakes for 3-year-olds from this Saturday to March 21.
EL KABEIR won his third points race on the road to the Kentucky Derby, following victories in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs last fall and the Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct earlier this year. He fires every time and has braved a brutal winter, no doubt owing to both his fortitude and the care of trainer John Terranova and his wife, Tonja.
This has been a very long winter, just ask Trevor McCarthy. McCarthy, the leading rider in Maryland, broke his right wrist during the gallop-out following a race at Laurel Park on Dec. 20. He will resume riding Thursday at Gulfstream Park, where he has three mounts.
Faugheen led a parade of winners for Irish trainer Willie Mullins and jockey Ruby Walsh at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday, stretching his unbeaten record to nine races with a frontrunning win in the $600,000 Champion Hurdle.
Trainer Jeff Bonde said that El Camino Real Derby winner Metaboss is set to fly to Kentucky on March 17 for his appearance in the Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park on March 21.
A tight photo for the win in the eighth race Friday at Gulfstream had some fans howling afterward, and who could blame them?
