While Cherie DeVaux sent North America's leading 3-year-old dirt route horse, Golden Tempo, off to Saratoga following a workout last weekend at Keeneland, she's keeping North America's leading 3-year-old dirt sprinter, Englishman, in Kentucky.
The best laid plans, horse people know as well as anyone, often get laid to rest, but the plan trainer Rusty Arnold hatched for two talented 4-year-old fillies last weekend came off perfectly. Arnold entered Echo Sound and Kilwin in the Regret Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park and the Twin Bridges Stakes on Sunday at Ellis Park. He sent Echo Sound to New Jersey, and in her first race since September, she won the Regret by 7 1/2 lengths.
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Butch Reid enjoyed a tidy day on a four-stakes card at Parx Racing last Saturday, striking with Ponder and Dream in the $100,000 Lil E. Tee and Maximus Meridius in the $100,000 Banjo Picker. The statebred stablemates will likely part ways for their next starts.
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Gary Capuano said he might have had a stroke of good luck when he decided to pull Big Cuddle from his preparation for the Grade 1 Haskell at Monmouth last Saturday.
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Trainer Ned Allard said he wished he could be more decisive about Quint's Brew's next start after the 5-year-old came up just 1 1/4 lengths short behind Book'em Danno in the $200,000 Mr. Prospector last Friday at Monmouth Park. He considers it best to take time, however, if only to temper his excitement.
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Voodoo Doll, perfect in three starts and continuing to improve with experience, will try stakes opposition and a mile and one-sixteenth for the first time Friday at Saratoga in the $200,000 Rick Violette Stakes.
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Four horses out of the same mare are in training and will potentially race this summer at Saratoga. The quartet are trained by Dominick Schettino and owned and bred by Robert Rosenthal and his brother-in-law Bradford Bernstein.
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The late pick five is the most appealing sequence on Friday's nine-race card at Woodbine, with several viable singles in the sequence.
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While the Grade 1 Personal Ensign on Aug. 29 is the major divisional prize here this summer, Friday's Grade 2, $250,000 Shuvee Stakes is the stepping-stone to get there.
