The Grade 1, $1 million Rainbow Futurity for Quarter Horses on Sunday is a battle of brothers. Trainers Eduardo Gonzalez and Juan M. Gonzalez are siblings, and in Reagal Eagle and Rocked Up, they have the fastest qualifiers for the Ruidoso Downs race that for the first time had two days of trials. Those two horses will break from posts 8 and 9.
Del Mar: Brad Free's Analysis July 20, 2013
Trainer Brian Stivers will be seeking his third stakes win from as many starters at the Arapahoe Park meet Sunday, when he sends out Ize in Trouble in the $40,000 Columbine. The 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares goes with a full field of 12.
With four of the 10 entries in the two races, Stormy Business’s progeny lead the way in the $35,000 MTA Stallion Auction Lassie and Laddie stakes at Canterbury Park on Sunday.
In her first start of 2013, Reneesgotzip led throughout an $88,310 allowance race over six furlongs at Del Mar on Thursday, winning by an emphatic 5 1/4 lengths, earning a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 105.
Glen Todd has had an eventful 11 months since his big horse, Taylor Said, won the 2012 Longacres Mile with an impressive display of speed and determination. Taylor Said is no longer in Todd’s hands, having been sold to one of the ruling sheiks in Dubai for a princely sum, but Todd, the leading owner at Hastings in Vancouver, British Columbia, could have as many as two starters in this year’s running of the Longacres Mile on Aug. 18.
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It was hot enough to make Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas sweat Wednesday, but it wasn’t hot enough to adversely affect the opening of Saratoga’s 144th meeting in its 150th year of existence.
Repole Stable’s Stopchargingmaria took control from the outset and was never challenged in a sharp first-out score Friday on Saratoga Race Course's opening day, winning by 5 1/2 lengths under John Velazquez.
