Fast Anna, who set the pace into the stretch before finishing fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, returned to the track for the first time on Thursday at Gulfstream Park after undergoing minor knee surgery earlier this winter, according to trainer Kathy Ritvo.
Anyone with a definite single in the Sunday feature at Gulfstream Park is either a genius or a fool. The 10th race is your typically inscrutable mishmash, with literally a half-dozen capable winners among a full gate set to clash on turf.
For Steve Asmussen, it would be hard to imagine a more satisfying result to an investigation into allegations that horses in his care were mistreated than the report issued on Thursday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Respondents to an online poll conducted by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association overwhelmingly tabbed California Chrome’s Kentucky Derby win last year as the “Moment of the Year,” according to a release from the NTRA.
Americain, a champion in Europe and Australia, will stand the 2015 breeding season at the Irish National Stud in Co. Kildare, Ireland after beginning his stallion career at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., Racing Post reports.
A deep, competitive race 7 Saturday at Santa Anita and a filly I consider among the elite who can be your linchpin makes the day’s final pick three (races 7-9) attractive.
Trainer Mike Tomlinson said things couldn’t be better with Barbados, a three-length winner of the Jan. 3 Spectacular Bid at Gulfstream Park, and indicated that the colt will run back in the Grade 3, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes on the Holy Bull undercard next Saturday.
Mike Hushion has won five runnings of the Hollie Hughes Stakes and has a potent 1-2 punch in I’m Stoked and Captain Serious entered in Sunday’s 37th running of the sprint stakes for older New York-breds over Aqueduct’s inner track.
Calculator should have plenty of chances to prove himself worthy of his regal lineage.
While it is always nice to reminisce about the past, the reason for this column is for the first time since Walter Case, Jr. I think we are seeing that special driver that can “move horses up”. His name is Yannick Gingras.
