Free: Santa Anita pick three play for Sunday, Feb. 8
A suggested pick three play on races 1-3 Sunday at Santa Anita will use “all” in the turf sprint, middle leg of the sequence. If the race stays on the hill, that’s okay also.
Brad FreeFeb 07, 2015
A suggested pick three play on races 1-3 Sunday at Santa Anita will use “all” in the turf sprint, middle leg of the sequence. If the race stays on the hill, that’s okay also.
A P McCoy, the champion jump racing jockey in Britain for the last 19 years, announced on Saturday that he is retiring at the end of the current steeplechase season in late April.
Acceptance, who won his first three starts, including the King Glorious Stakes at Los Alamitos in December, has been turned out after finishing fourth in the California Cup Derby at Santa Anita on Jan. 24.
In an effort to make up for several cards that have been lost due to weather, the New York Racing Association has added three days to the racing schedule in March, the company announced Saturday.
Trainer Ramon Preciado said he was already enjoying his first winter at Gulfstream Park, if for no other reason that it’s kept him out of the inclement weather that’s plagued his home track of Parx this season. But Preciado’s winter in south Florida got even better on Saturday when Amelia’s Wild Ride rallied from just off the pace to a one-length victory over the favored Green Mask in the $75,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint.
In the paddock Saturday prior to the Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes, David Jacobson, the trainer and part-owner of odds-on favorite Salutos Amigos, was concerned.
The winner of five consecutive stakes, Alert Bay will have a 60-day break at a Northern California farm before returning for the second half of the year, trainer Blaine Wright said on Friday.
Souper Colossal got a perfect prep for the Swale Stakes, rolling to victory in the $75,000 Texas Glitter Stakes, the first of six Saturday stakes at Gulfstream Park.
A late decision to keep Divided Attention in the race paid dividends for her connections as the less-heralded of the two runners from Godolphin Racing stable rallied to win Friday’s $100,000 Ladies Handicap by 5 1/2 lengths at frigid Aqueduct.
Leading jockey Antonio Gallardo was one of four riders involved in a multiple-horse spill during the running of Friday’s sixth race at Tampa Bay Downs.