Modern ran like a horse who needed a race when he finished fourth as the heavy favorite in an allowance race for 3-year-olds at Hastings on July 14. He could make amends in a first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds and up that headlines a seven-race card at Hastings on Saturday.
Won to Watch and The Kat in the Hat each brings significant win streaks into Saturday night’s $441,790 Texas Quarter Horse Association Sale Futurity at Retama Park.
Louisiana’s first major test for 2-year-olds is set for Saturday night at Evangeline Downs with the two divisions of the D. S. “Shine” Young Futurity on tap. Each division is estimated to be worth $120,000 and will be run at 5 1/2 furlongs.
Street Gem and Coarsegold, the 1-2 finishers in the Revidere Stakes last month, square off again on Saturday at Monmouth Park.
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So You Think, a world-travelling Group 1 winner, sired his first foal on July 25, when Soft Landing produced a colt at Bell View Park in Australia, Coolmore Stud reported on Twitter.
Success Rate and Just Win Baby look like the main players in the $50,000 Count Lathum Handicap at Northlands Park on Saturday. The race is the highlight of a nine-race card that includes four $50,000 stakes, including the Northlands Oaks.
Sky Commander will try to remain unbeaten as a gelding Saturday at Woodbine in the $125,000 Toronto Cup, a nine-furlong turf stakes for 3-year-olds.
Risk plays a major part in horse racing. Take Creampuff Macdaddy, the 4-1 third choice in the morning line for Saturday’s $450,000 Yonkers Trot. The Ontario-bred was an expensive purchase last year by owners Howard Taylor, Ted Gewertz, Ed Gold and Judith Taylor, but the road to glory has been filled with obstacles.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Balmoral, Maywood, Northfield, Meadows, Philadelphia, Pocono Downs, Meadowlands, Saratoga, Monticello, Tioga Downs and Yonkers.
Coolmore’s champion St Nicholas Abbey, who underwent surgery Wednesday to repair a fractured pastern, is “well and comfortable” but remains in intensive care, according to a Thursday morning update that Coolmore released via Twitter.
