Sensitively may step up into stakes
Sensitively won her debut in a maiden race by 9 1/4 lengths Feb. 21 and could go for a stakes in her second start this spring, according to trainer Phil D’Amato.
Steve AndersenFeb 25, 2015
Sensitively won her debut in a maiden race by 9 1/4 lengths Feb. 21 and could go for a stakes in her second start this spring, according to trainer Phil D’Amato.
The field that will oppose Shared Belief in the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 7 is expected to range from a Grade 1 winner last fall to a 6-year-old gelding with one win in 66 starts.
Megyns Gold is well spotted Friday at Oaklawn Park, where she will attempt to win her third straight race in a $50,000 optional-claiming sprint for 3-year-old fillies. Megyns Gold defeated a handful of her rivals last out when clearing her first-level allowance condition and is entered back for the tag in the ninth and final race on the card.
Right now, the most accomplished healthy 3-year-old dirt horse in trainer Chad Brown’s barn is Majestic Affair, a multiple stakes-winning sprinter who was scheduled to run in Saturday’s $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct until that race failed to fill.
Daily Racing Form’s Jay Hovdey is among the 2014 media award finalists for Canada’s Sovereign Awards.
Gorgeous Bird, never a factor when fifth as the 6-1 fourth choice in the Fountain of Youth Stakes last week, still could get a shot at a Kentucky Derby berth by making his next start in the April 4 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. Frammento, third at 63-1 in the Fountain of Youth, also is likely to run in the Blue Grass.
A closely spaced series of workouts at Payson Park has ended for Tonalist, leading trainer Christophe Clement to say he will not run his stable star at the ongoing Gulfstream Park meet or in the March 28 Dubai World Cup.
This week, the artist Dagmar Galleithner took a deep breath and delivered her most significant piece of commission work to date: the official Pacific Classic portrait of the 2014 winner, Shared Belief.
Two sprint wins in three starts since late November have resulted in Rattataptap’s entry in Saturday’s $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita.
Gulfstream Park and Fasig-Tipton will offer a $1 million bonus to any graduate of the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Florida selected sale of 2-year-olds in training who goes on to win the 2016 Florida Derby.