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The $75,000 Wait For It Stakes might offer the smallest purse of three Pennsylvania-bred stakes on the Wednesday card at Parx Racing, but it could earn the most eyes. Shane's Wonder, an undefeated 3-year-old gelding, will make his stakes debut as an obvious standout, and trainer Alfredo Velazquez isn't the only one expecting another big effort at six furlongs.
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Thursday, On the Ledge, trained by Bruce Brown, makes his return to the races off a 250-day layoff in a first-level allowance race for New York-breds scheduled for six furlongs on turf. Over the last three years, according to DRF Formulator, Brrown is 3 for 16 with a $3.49 return on investment with horses returning from a layoff of 180 days or longer.
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There's something for everyone as Keeneland kicks off the final three days of its spring stand with an appealing eight-race Wednesday card offering everything from juveniles sprinting 4 1/2 furlongs on dirt to older horses routing 1 1/2 miles on turf.
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A gracious Julien Leparoux was honored at Santa Anita on Sunday with the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, which recognizes a rider’s accomplishments and personal character.
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The Flightline colt purchased on Friday for $10.5 million at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. 2-year-olds in training sale in Florida arrived at Bob Baffert’s stable at Santa Anita on Saturday.
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Trainer Dan Ward is joining Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's Midwest team as an assistant in advance of the Churchill Downs meeting that begins Saturday.
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It took Duchessa four starts to earn her maiden victory, but since breaking through on Feb. 1, she has turned the winner's circle at Tampa Bay Downs into a second home. The filly will go for her third straight win in the seventh race on Wednesday, a starter allowance for 3-year-old fillies.
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Generally, the racing year has gone great for trainer Brian Lynch. The afternoon of Feb. 14 did not go so great.
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Over the last five years, Graham Motion has trained 16 different fillies and mares to win graded turf stakes and only half as many colts and geldings. For now, that balance has shifted.
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As easy and dominant as Burnham's Square's victory Saturday at Keeneland in the Elkhorn Stakes looked, his trainer, Ian Wilkes, firmly believes that was just the start of things.
