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Trainer Bill Mott will have one proven commodity, one unknown quantity, and two pretty good chances to win Thursday's $86,000 main event at Gulfstream Park when sending out Kapoor and Isla Grande in the six-furlong allowance and optional-claiming dash for older fillies and mares.
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Back from his near-hit with Just Beat the Odds in the $2 million Riyadh Sprint Stakes, trainer Gregg Sacco will be in action Wednesday at Tampa with two runners in a far less prestigious event, even if it is the proverbial feature on the nine-race card.
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Just Beat the Odds did his preparations at Tampa this winter before he finished a terrific second, three-quarters of a length behind Imagination in the $2 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint.
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Little Thunder may not be in the league of Book’em Danno or Just Beat the Odds, but he has gotten his career off to a solid start, winning two of his first three starts. On Saturday, he won a first-level allowance race by 7 3/4 lengths at Tampa, running six furlongs in 1:08.95, just .28 off the 14-year-old track record. He earned a 90 Beyer Speed Figure.
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While neither Imagination nor Just Beat the Odds – the two U.S.-based sprinters who finished one-two in the Riyadh Dirt Stakes in Saudi Arabia last weekend – are heading to Dubai for next month's $2 million Golden Shaheen, Book'em Danno is now being considered for the lucrative race.
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An overflow field of 13 3-year-olds – 12 may start – were entered for the $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial on Feb. 21 at Turfway, a Kentucky Derby points race.
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Honor Marie will point to next month's Grade 3, $300,000 Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park after finishing full of run in a 4 1/2-length victory in the Dust Commander Stakes at the Florence, Ky., track last Saturday night.
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Bettors made the “all others” entry in the fourth Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool the 9-2 favorite over 37 individual entries when the pool closed on Sunday night.
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Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen has two sons actively riding for his stable at Oaklawn Park. In Thursday's featured eighth race, each will be aboard leading contenders for their father
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In the ninth instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we look at Mark Newnham’s strong 2025/26 Four-Year-Old Classic Series hand with a focus on HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) runner-up Infinite Resolve.
