Some little sisters follow in the footsteps of their big brothers, and Aaron Kennedy and trainer Doug Anderson hope that will be the case with Glengloria.
The full sibling to five-time stakes winner Glengarry runs in Friday night’s $100,000 Prairie Meadows Debutante for 2-year-old fillies at six furlongs. She’s part of a competitive field of 10 that includes maiden winners from Canterbury Park, Colonial Downs, Evangeline Downs, Horseshoe Indianapolis, and Lone Star Park.
Aless Queen, a 4-year-old filly trained by Jose D’Angelo, has spent nearly a year holding her own against a litany of rising stars in Florida. The statebred gauntlet may finally come to an end in a $43,000 allowance on Friday at Gulfstream Park.
“She’s, in a good way, an unlucky filly,” D’Angelo said. “But she always show up. We like her and we finally seem to be finding the right competition.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Brad Cox uses words like “confusing” and “frustrating” to describe his Saratoga meet at which, through five weeks, he’s won just four races from 28 starters.
“It’s been a little bit of a head-scratcher, but we still got time to get it turned around,” Cox said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Goal Oriented has a new target.
Goal Oriented, the third-place finisher behind Journalism in the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes on July 20, has been rerouted from the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers on Aug. 23 at Saratoga to the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 20 at Parx Racing, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday.
A week later than expected, the 8-year-old gelding Private Eye will be favored to win a Group 2 sprint in Australia in Friday’s $196,300 P.B. Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield. He faces a field that includes three former North American-based mares.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – She Feels Pretty, the leading female turf horse in North America, was entered Wednesday in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 E.P. Taylor at Woodbine and will most likely run there instead of waiting for the Grade 2, $500,000 Flower Bowl on Aug. 30 at Saratoga, trainer Cherie DeVaux said Wednesday.
“We had both races open on the table and we were just leaving it up to her to decide which race,” DeVaux said. “She’s training extremely well right now. I just didn’t want to wait too long for the Flower Bowl.”
DEL MAR, Calif. – Mrs. Astor is not invincible Friday at Del Mar. At least that’s the hope of bettors and the 10 fillies and mares trying to beat the favorite in the $100,000 CTT and TOC Stakes.
Although she has won four stakes from five starts since relocating to California, and finished second in another stakes, Mrs. Astor did not scare anyone away in the CTT and TOC. If all 11 entrants start, it will be the biggest field for the 1 3/8-mile turf race in at least 20 years.
“It is a way bigger field than I thought it would be,” said Mrs. Astor’s trainer, Jonathan Thomas.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – It’s last call for main turf racing at Woodbine for approximately a year while a portion of the course is resodded beginning later this month. There are two six-furlong main turf sprints scheduled for Friday, the most of appealing of which is the seventh race for nonwinners-of-three Ontario-sired allowance company and $40,000 claimers.
