Lady Eli, dominant winner of Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita, came out of her race in good shape and will get a vacation in south Florida before preparing for her 3-year-old campaign.
Trainer Leandro Mora reported all was well Saturday morning with Goldencents, the now-retired colt who went out in a blaze of glory the previous afternoon with a front-running repeat in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita.
Calculator was scratched on Saturday morning from the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, with trainer Peter Miller reporting he has a sore foot.
The strategy for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Ultra Pick Six with a $2.5 million-guaranteed pool is pretty simple: Survive and advance through the first four legs, and get to a pair of imposing favorites at the end – Toronado (#5) in the Mile, and Shared Belief (#6) in the Classic.
Little Ms Protocol won the seventh stakes race of her career on Friday night, when she rallied for a 3 1/4-length win over Blessed Immaculata in the $100,000 Magnolia at Delta Downs.
You can look at the Turf Sprint two ways: a chance to reap profits sown by chaos, or a serious drag on a pick four ticket with a reasonable budget. I’ve got eight Turf Sprint horses on this ticket – 3 As, 3 Bs, 2 Cs – and still that doesn’t feel like enough.
The weather wreaked havoc as many of the top pacers and trotters of the sport competed at Hoosier Park on Friday night. Over a surface rated good with rain, intermittent snow, and heavy winds, it was hard to decipher how to evaluate the top equines in five major stakes, but the show must go on.
Jockey Rosie Napravnik stunned the racing world Friday by announcing her retirement after she rides at Santa Anita on Saturday.
Overall handle on the four Breeders’ Cup races held Friday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., was $28.2 million, compared with handle of $34.9 million on five Friday Breeders’ Cup races held at the same track last year, according to charts of the races.
Meet the new queen of the distaff division, and say goodbye to a star female jockey. Untapable overcame a wide trip and a stubborn pacesetter to win the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Friday at Santa Anita, stamping herself as a legitimate star in her first try against older fillies and mares.
