Trainer Barbara Pirie dies at 55
Longtime Woodbine trainer Barbara Pirie has passed away from cancer at age 55.
Ron GierkinkFeb 24, 2015
Longtime Woodbine trainer Barbara Pirie has passed away from cancer at age 55.
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Horses based in the U.S. that are being pointed to races in Britain will have to arrive in the country 10 days prior to the race and will be subjected to a new zero-tolerance policy on the use of anabolic steroids under new rules announced by the British Horseracing Authority on Tuesday.
Trainer Larry Jones, who swept the Rachel Alexandra Stakes exacta on Saturday, said Sunday that victorious I’m a Chatterbox is likely for the Fair Grounds Oaks on March 28, while plans are less certain for runner-up Lovely Maria.
Not one, not two, not three, but four allowance races dot the nine-race Fair Grounds card on Thursday, but Mother Nature seems bound to throw a monkey wrench into the works. There’s a 100-percent chance of rain Wednesday, with as much as two inches forecast for New Orleans, in which case you can forget about turf racing on Thursday.
Chocolate Ride, who won the Fair Grounds Handicap on Saturday, is an intended starter in the March 28 Mervin Muniz Handicap at Fair Grounds, while the race’s fast-closing runner-up, Glenard, is considered possible for the race.
Wireless Future, the Fair Grounds-based 3-year-old who has three wins at the meet, will be redirected from the Black Gold Stakes this coming weekend at Fair Grounds to the Spiral Stakes on March 22 at Turfway, trainer Tom Amoss said Monday.
Trainer Ken McPeek had a hot hand with 3-year-olds last week at Oaklawn Park. He sent out Kentucky Oaks candidate Pangburn to win her season debut in memorable fashion. The Truth Or Else ran second in the Grade 3, $300,000 Southwest at 22-1, and Magic of Believing picked off his second straight route to punch his ticket to a Kentucky Derby prep that might end up being in Dubai.
American Pharoah and Dortmund are the top morning-line choices behind the mutuel field in Pool 3 of the 2015 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens Friday at noon Eastern for a three-day run.