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Trainer Dan Blacker and owner-breeder Harris Farms will employ a simple formula to try and end Bob Baffert's decade-long grip on the Los Alamitos Derby – start the best horse.
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Dixie Law and Bold Time will prep for the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Selene at 1 1/16 miles on Tapeta. They are the main protagonists in the seven-horse field, and Dixie Law should be favored.
Live racing resumes tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park for the first Thursday card of the season, bringing the racing schedule up to five-nights-a-week.
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Green Beans has run for a $16,000 tag in five of his last seven starts. But through a confluence of fortunate breaks, the Virginia-bred will try to become a stakes winner in the $125,000 Edward P. Evans.
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Inner-turf horse for the course Miss Vyvyanne gets her sternest test to date when she takes on the boys over five furlongs in Saturday's Grade 2 Highlander at Woodbine.
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The 10 fillies and mares entered in Saturday's $275,000 Anchorage Stakes at Churchill Downs have made their most recent starts at seven different tracks – on turf, dirt, and synthetic surfaces.
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Five of the six 3-year-olds in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Marine are nominated to the Aug. 15 King's Plate, which makes the 1 1/16-mile event an important prep for Canada's most prestigious race.
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It would be difficult – very, very difficult – saying that the 4-year-old colt Sovereignty still has something to prove Saturday at Churchill Downs in the Stephen Foster Stakes. And yet . . .
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Among the trainers with horses in Saturday's feature at Emerald Downs are a Washington Racing Hall of Famer, the track's winningest trainer, and a West Coast stalwart whose horses finished one-two in Sunday's Budweiser . Then there's Elodio Madrigal.
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Splendora had not won beyond a mile before the Shawnee, and who's to say that 1 1/8 miles will prove her undoing Saturday at Churchill in the Fleur de Lis Stakes? Shred the Gnar would like a word.
