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Since Sept. 27, trainer Mike Maker has gone 4 for 7 at Aqueduct with horses making their first start after being claimed. Friday, he looks to continue that run when he sends out Systemic Change in a starter allowance that serves as the feature on an eight-race card.
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Trainer John Ortiz will keep a string of 10 to 15 horses in New York this winter as he tries to establish a year-round presence here. The early returns are quite good.
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Unraced since May 3, Built returns on Friday at Fair Grounds in a second-level allowance. Carded for about 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, the Friday feature will likely wind up on a wet main track, with sustained rain forecast Thursday into Friday.
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Instead of winning the riding title, as he had done at the preceding five summer and autumn meetings at Del Mar, Hernandez finished sixth with nine wins, eight behind leader Umberto Rispoli. The reboot begins on Friday at Los Alamitos, the first day of the track's two-week meeting that runs through Dec. 14.
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Caspar Fownes accelerated a familiar title push with a double at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (3 December) as the four-time Hong Kong champion trainer edged to within three wins of Mark Newnham at the top of the standings.
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Tappan Street, sidelined since upsetting Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 29, got a step closer to his much anticipated return by breezing five furlongs in 1:03.40 on Monday at Payson Park.
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Heading into this week, Rafael Hernandez had a 135-132 lead in wins over apprentice Pietro Moran, who had led the standings throughout most of the Woodbine meet until the fall. Both ride a contender in Friday's sixth race going 1 1/16 miles for $25,000 nonwinners-of-two claimers.
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A two-time Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund (DSBF) champion in his rookie season, Melvin G kicked off the December DSBF series for 3-year-old male trotters at Bally's Dover in victorious fashion with an easy 1:57 2/5 score in the first of two $20,000 first-round preliminary events on Tuesday (Dec. 2).
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Anthony Farrior does most of his damage with claiming horses in the Mid-Atlantic region, but after winning two six-furlong stakes in the span of three days in late November, the trainer seems to be expanding his horizons.
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Gokhan Kocakaya, a Turkish jockey who spent the summer in his home nation, is back in the United States and looking for mounts at Laurel Park.
