Salutos Amigos, winner of three stakes in his last four starts, will most likely make his next start in the Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes here on Feb. 7, trainer and part-owner David Jacobson said Sunday.
The Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct, postponed last Saturday, was rescheduled for Friday, and nine were entered when the race was re-drawn on Sunday.
Dave Litfin's Aqueduct horses to watch for Jan. 12, 2015.
Eagle, the likely favorite in the Lecomte Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds, and Top Decile, the likely favorite in the Silverbulletday, both drew the far outside post in their respective races. If they are to win, they will have their draws to overcome.
Grade 2-placed stakes winner Uptowncharlybrown will relocate to Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa., for the 2015 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $1,500.
When last seen on this circuit, Huge Asset was hardly living up to his name. He had won just once in eight starts and on July 9 finished last in a $25,000 claiming race on the turf at Belmont Park. On Wednesday, Huge Asset returns to New York looking, at least on paper, like the horse to beat in a $57,000 first-level allowance race for New York-breds.
Trainer Shug McGaughey said he’s still considering the one-mile Gulfstream Park Handicap on March 7 at Gulfstream Park for Honor Code’s much-anticipated 4-year-old debut.
Happy My Way will return to his favorite track when he launches his 2015 campaign in Saturday’s Sunshine Millions Sprint at Gulfstream Park.
With no stakes opportunities for 3-year-old statebred fillies on the schedule this winter at Aqueduct, Hot City Girl will most likely make her next start in the $100,000 Busher Stakes on Feb. 21.
The outcome might not have been quite what he’d hoped for, but trainer Todd Pletcher was very pleased nonetheless with the performance turned in by Commissioner here Saturday in his first appearance since his second-place finish in the 2014 Belmont Stakes.
