There will be live racing at Hastings next weekend, but a lot of the local stars will be out of town running in major stakes races at Northlands Park and Emerald Downs.
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Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. enjoyed a 1-2 finish last weekend in the Tyro Stakes for 2-year-olds at Monmouth Park as Yes I’m Lucky bested Run for Logistics. Plesa could do it again Sunday in the $60,000 Colleen Stakes, the companion event for fillies at five furlongs on the turf.
Chris Kay, the reorganization specialist who was hired as the chief executive officer of the New York Racing Association in June, will fill the seat reserved for NYRA on the board of directors of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, the NTRA said on Friday after a board meeting.
On Friday, jockey Calvin Borel was rewarded with the sport’s highest honor as he became the 97th jockey to be enshrined into the Hall of Fame. Borel, 46, headlined the 2013 Hall of Fame class that included contemporary horses Housebuster, Invasor, and Lure, as well as steeplechasers Tuscalee and McDynamo.
Mike Man’s Gold and Music of My Soul will take their budding rivalry to new lengths Sunday in the $65,000 Emerald Downs Derby when they headline a compact field of six horses, all attempting to navigate 1 1/8 miles for the first time.
The Jockey Club will continue to press the argument that the future of the U.S. racing industry depends on the sport’s willingness to toughen its medication policies, a position that will be defended Sunday morning during the organization’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing.
Dawn Approach, coming off a narrow loss in the July 31 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, returns in Sunday's Group 1 Jacques Marois at Deauville to face Intello, among the leading French 3-year-olds of 2013.
With an eye toward autumn races such as the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Tiz Flirtatious tops Sunday's $250,000 John Mabee Stakes for fillies and mares on turf at Del Mar.
It is hard to separate the six horses running in an $8,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up that serves as Sunday’s feature at Hastings. The 1 1/8-mile race goes as race 7 on an eight-race card that begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.
Handicapper Dan Illman's analysis and selections for 2-year-old races at the 2013 Saratoga meet.
