Del Mar: Hard to Resist fresh, fit, and dangerous
Trainer Pete Eurton seems to have found an ideal spot for Hard to Resist in the $85,000 seventh race on Thursday at Del Mar.
Jay PrivmanAug 06, 2013
Trainer Pete Eurton seems to have found an ideal spot for Hard to Resist in the $85,000 seventh race on Thursday at Del Mar.
D. Wayne Lukas made official on Tuesday what had been widely speculated for the last week – Preakness winner Oxbow will not run in the $1 million Travers Stakes here on Aug. 24.
Fiftyshadesofhay, winner of the Grade 3 Iowa Oaks and Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in her last two starts, will step up and take on the elite of the 3-year-old filly division in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga.
Holiday Mischief and Sunbean put on a show in the $100,000 Prelude last Saturday at Louisiana Downs. But whether both horses return for the Super Derby is still being determined.
Trainer John Sadler and owner Kosta Hronis will try to sweep this weekend’s graded stakes races at Del Mar, with Greeley Awesome in the La Jolla Handicap on Saturday, and Journaliste and Lady of Shamrock in the John Mabee on Sunday.
Kinsale King, who won the 2010 Dubai Golden Shaheen and recently returned from a lengthy layoff to finish second in a turf sprint at Betfair Hollywood Park, was retired from racing Tuesday owing to a damaged ligament in an ankle.
Trainer David Duggan hopes to celebrate his 45th birthday in style Thursday when he sends out Palace Dreams in the $100,000 Statue of Liberty division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Saratoga.
After working a bullet five furlongs in 1:00.80 this past Saturday on the main track at Churchill Downs, Little Mike is on track for an attempt to do something no horse ever has done: Win the Arlington Million two years in a row.
Del Mar live longshots, spot plays and vulnerable favorites for Thursday, August 8, 2013.
Dry Summer seems a more comfortable horse now that he has been gelded. The proof may come in the Grade 2 La Jolla at Del Mar on Saturday.