Second to Carpe Diem last weekend in the Tampa Bay Derby, Ami’s Flatter is an Ontario-bred colt who is eligible for the biggest race in Canada, the Queen’s Plate on July 5.
Saturday’s $50,000-added Camilla Urso sprint for older fillies and mares will have a Breeders’ Cup headliner. Trainer Gary Mandella will use the six-furlong race for Living the Life’s 2015 debut.
Dave Litfin's horses to watch at Aqueduct for the week of March 10.
Before you know it, Graham Motion and Rajiv Maragh will be halfway around the world to team together with dual champion Main Sequence in the $6 million Dubai Sheema Classic on March 28.First, however, there’s the everyday stuff to attend to. Motion will give Maragh a leg up on Magic of Reality in the Thursday feature at Gulfstream Park, a $50,000, second-level allowance at 1 3/16 miles on turf. Magic of Reality, a 5-year-old Niarchos family homebred, just missed by a neck in an identical spot here one month ago and figures as the horse to beat in a field of seven older fillies and mares.
Thursday’s feature at Aqueduct is an open-company second-level allowance for female sprinters, but as was the case six weeks ago when this kind of race was run, the strength of the field lies with the New York-breds.
Mahoning Valley Race Course in Austintown, Ohio, has added a six-furlong, $75,000 stakes race for 3-year-old fillies to its stakes schedule. The Austintown Filly Sprint will be run Saturday, April 18.
Take Charge Brandi will miss both the Grade 2, $750,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Saturday and the Kentucky Oaks after the champion 2-year-old filly of 2014 was diagnosed with a non-displaced bone chip in her right knee, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said on Tuesday.
CARPE DIEM was making his first start since finishing second last fall in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. He had received rave notices for his workouts at Palm Beach Downs by Daily Racing Form’s onsite clocker and came off the bench with a terrific performance to serve notice that he belongs among the elite Kentucky Derby contenders.
Get a listing of the top three finishers from every track with vital information, including the winner’s Beyer Speed Figure, race fractions, and the running style of the winning horse.
Bold Chieftain’s third crop of foals is beginning to hit the ground, with more than a dozen already here.
