Laurel Park has canceled its Sunday card as the track maintenance crew continues to work on the racing surface following last Thursday’s storm. Laurel received approximately eight inches of snow.
Carpe Diem exited his five-length victory Saturday in the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby in good fashion, trainer Todd Pletcher said Sunday morning from his Palm Beach Downs winter base. The Giant’s Causeway colt most likely will be pointed to the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, an April 4 race in which the Tampa Bay Derby runner-up Ami’s Flatter also might race next, according to his trainer, Josie Carroll.
The numbers are phenomenal. In the four-day National Hunt festival for steeplechasers and hurdlers at Cheltenham Racecourse in the west of England from Tuesday through Friday, Irish trainer Willie Mullins may have as many as 50 runners in 27 races.
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Shared Belief was the brilliant winner of Saturday’s $1 million Santa Anita Handicap, leaving behind 12 overmatched rivals with a turn of foot in early stretch.
Ring Weekend, making his first start of the year, earned the first Grade 1 victory for both himself and jockey Drayden Van Dyke when scoring a 7-1 upset in the $400,000 Kilroe Mile on Saturday at Santa Anita.
Wild Dude was in an odd place in the first half of Saturday’s $250,500 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita. Instead of racing at the back of the field, waiting to make his customary rally, Wild Dude was near the front.
Francisco Torres’s deft touch combined with Mizz Money’s professionalism to produce a third straight victory for Mizz Money in the Alan Lacombe Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Singing Kitty, claimed for $32,000 at Los Alamitos in December, won her second consecutive stakes in Saturday’s $91,650 China Doll Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on turf at Santa Anita.
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Sarah Sis had been edged by a neck and a head in her two stakes starts leading up to the Grade 3, $150,000 Honeybee at Oaklawn Park, but there was no photo finish sign needed Saturday, as she powered to a 1 1/4-length win. It was the first stakes victory for Sarah Sis, who picked up 50 qualifying points for the Kentucky Oaks.
