Drawn by a $75,000 purse and the opportunity to race on Polytrack, half of the eight horses entered in Saturday’s Cincinnati Trophy Stakes at Turfway Park are southern shippers, led by Fair Grounds raiders Bossy, True to You, and Flat Deposit and Gulfstream invader Right On Kitten.
Overall, at least 35 male-line descendants of A.P. Indy are scheduled to stand in Kentucky in 2015, with many more sure to come in the next few years. Even as good a racehorse as he was, as good as his pedigree was, as good an individual as A.P. Indy was, it was hardly predictable that he would lead a resurgence of the waning Bold Ruler branch of the Nasrullah male line.
The Barbara Fritchie undercard at Laurel Park on Saturday is topped by a pair of competitive $100,000 stakes at 1 1/8 miles, the John B. Campbell for both sexes and the Maryland Racing Media Stakes for fillies and mares.
Ocho Ocho Ocho, unraced since winning the $1 million Delta Jackpot Stakes in Louisiana in November, is on schedule for a comeback March 7 in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita.
Bobbi Grace won for the first time in the U.S. in an optional claimer on the hillside turf course Jan. 16 at Santa Anita, the filly’s third start in this country.
New Vocations will host its annual Thoroughbreds For All event, showcasing the usefulness of Thoroughbreds for second careers, the evening of Friday, April 24 in Lexington, Ky.
Though he is expected to make his next start in New York, Withers Stakes winner Far From Over arrived at the Palm Beach Downs training center in south Florida Thursday morning in order to maintain a regular training regimen, according to trainer Todd Pletcher.
With bitterly cold temperatures in the forecast, Aqueduct’s Friday card has been canceled, the New York Racing Association announced Thursday.
Thegirlinthatsong may be on the verge of a string of hits. On Jan. 17, Thegirlinthatsong won the first graded stakes of her career in the Grade 2 La Canada Stakes for 4-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita. The victory makes her the favorite for Saturday’s $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes for fillies and mares at the same distance.
Condo Commando, a multiple graded stakes winner and a finalist for the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old filly of 2014, will make her 3-year-old debut in the $100,000 Busher Stakes on Feb. 21, trainer Rudy Rodriguez said.
