Owner Ken Ramsey said he has not yet mapped out an agenda for Thank You Marylou, who outran her 39-1 odds when third in the Filly and Mare Sprint, but he does have long-term goals for several others in his huge stable.
Trainer Niall Saville is based in Maryland but has picked his spots well in New York, having won with 8 of 49 starters he has sent to the three NYRA tracks. One of those winners was North Star Boy, who shipped to Aqueduct last Nov. 9 to win a first-level allowance race at 1 1/16 miles on turf. Exactly one year later, North Star Boy returns to Aqueduct to run in a third-level allowance race at 1 1/16 miles on turf.
After an extraordinarily successful summer and fall in New Jersey and Kentucky, jockey Paco Lopez has come home to Florida.
The results of the Breeders’ Cup last weekend at Santa Anita were met with delight by officials at Keeneland, the Lexington track where the championships will be held for the first time next Oct. 30-31.
The New York Racing Association will begin holding quarterly meetings seeking input from horseplayers, fans, and members of the local communities of its three tracks – Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga. The first meeting is scheduled for Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m. at Longshots, a simulcasting facility on the second floor at Aqueduct.
House Rules, who won an off-the-turf second-level allowance race in the mud Thursday, likely will make her next start in the Grade 3, $400,000 Comely Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on Nov. 29, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said Friday.
Aqueduct will be open for live racing Monday, the day before Veterans Day, and will take the time to salute war veterans. First post for Monday’s nine-race card is 12:20 p.m.
This has been a bittersweet week at the barn of trainer Leandro Mora, for less than 24 hours after Goldencents won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile for the second straight year, he was on a plane to Kentucky, where he will begin his stud career next spring at Spendthrift Farm.
Shared Belief is being freshened, and the only chance he would run before the end of the year is if trainer Jerry Hollendorfer decides to go in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on that track’s opening day, Dec. 26.
Meinertzhageni, who has two wins and a second in three starts on Del Mar's Polytrack, will take a step up in class on Sunday to compete in the $100,000 Betty Grable Stakes, a seven-furlong sprint for California-bred fillies and mares.
