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Less than 48 hours after Golden Tempo won the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby, 3-year-old Standardbreds will take center stage on Monday (May 4) when a trio of eliminations each for the Oak Grove Trotting Derby and Oak Grove Trotting Oaks headline a blockbuster 15-race harness racing program at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, which opens the fortnight-long Oak Grove Festival of Racing.
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Friday’s program at Santa Anita has a carryover of $42,057 in the $2 pick six.
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Trainer Chad Brown said he had always thought of City Girl as one who could have stakes potential. It might have taken more than two years, but the 5-year-old mare made up for lost time in an upset score over graded stakes winners Dynamic Pricing and Laurelin in the Grade 3 Beaugay Stakes on Sunday at Aqueduct.
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The Friday night prime-time broadcast of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs in Louisville averaged 2.4 million viewers, according to Churchill’s broadcast partner, NBC Sports. That's a record for the race, and is nearly eight times the average viewership for the race in the prior three years.
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Grammy Girl picked up her third straight stakes victory in the Grade 3 Vagrancy on Sunday at Aqueduct.
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Hey Jessie won her first stakes in nearly 17 months in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Barbara Stakes for fillies and mares on turf at Santa Anita, repelling a bid from an unexpected rival through the stretch.
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G T Five Hundred made his Woodbine debut a winning one in Sunday’s $106,400 Thorncliffe Stakes when mowing down the speed late in the 5 1/2-furlong dash for older runners.
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Jockey John Velazquez has given Antiquarian his share of favorable trips in his 11-race career, but the 5-year-old could not have asked for much better in the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes on Sunday at Aqueduct.
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Saluto, a nine-length winner of his debut in a maiden race for 2-year-olds at Santa Anita on Friday, will be considered for the $225,000 Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs on June 28, trainer Steve Knapp said on Sunday.
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Big City Lights returned from a layoff of more than five months to win a seven-furlong allowance race at Santa Anita on Saturday.
