Jockey Orlando Bocachica underwent surgery to repair a compound fracture in his left arm and a broken jaw suffered when he fell after his mount, Centella, ducked into the gap shortly after the start of Wednesday’s second race.
For all she has accomplished in the last two years, the Canadian star Lexie Lou will be asked to do something new in Saturday’s $200,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita: race on dirt.
Trainer Rolando Almanza and jockey Yordanis Amaro have a good shot at sweeping the two richest stakes of the Quarter Horse meet at Hialeah Park on Sunday. Almanza and Amaro have the morning-line favorite for the $417,575 Hialeah Derby for 3-year-olds and the track program’s second choice in the $204,715 Hialeah Matron for 4-year-olds
Now that we’ve debated the merits of the finalists for Eclipse Awards, let’s turn to handicapping how the awards will actually turn out when the envelopes are opened at Gulfstream Park on Saturday night. Let’s play a mythical pick 12 for the dozen equine categories, and I think we can do it with just 12 combos.
Transparent has started 14 times, but he’s never been given the opportunity to run against restricted statebred company. He will do just that Saturday, when he’ll be among the favorites to capture the $250,000 Sunshine Millions Classic at Gulfstream Park.
Bayern, California Chrome, and Main Sequence will be the focus of attention at the 44th annual Ecliipse Awards on Saturday night here at Gulfstream Park, as they will vie for Horse of the Year, and are in line for divisional titles, too.
If he does run a Beyer Speed Figures in the mid-90s, one of these lightly raced horses is going to have to take the kind of jump Eagle took in Kentucky to beat him in Saturday's Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Let’s couple favorite Eagle in exotics with another horse here I’m taken with – Runhappy - to create some value in the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Approximately 100 horses in temporary stalls erected on a parking area at Calder Race Course were allowed to move back into a closed area of the track’s backstretch earlier this week after the temporary stalls were flooded because of heavy rains Tuesday morning, according to track officials and horsemen.
Entrusted for the winter by trainer Charles LoPresti and Gainesway Stable to trainer David Carroll, graded winner Villandry will be making his meet debut in the Grade 3 Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap on Saturday at Fair Grounds.
