LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Here’s the scary thing. As Always a Runner made just the third start of her career in winning the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on Friday night, and trainer Chad Brown thought it was the first race of her career she was 100 percent, it stands to reason there’s room to improve.
“Possible, yeah,” Brown said. “She just ran a remarkable race, and we’re so delighted with it. She really delivered.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – Four of trainer Michael McCarthy’s stakes runners at Churchill Downs and Santa Anita last weekend are likely to scatter across the United States – and perhaps over the Atlantic – for their next starts.
McCarthy won three stakes on Saturday – the Grade 1 American Turf Stakes with Stark Contrast and Grade 2 Twin Spires Turf Sprint with Yellow Card at Churchill Downs, and the Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes with Mondego at Santa Anita.
Carrumba was a fine racemare, carrying the iconic Phipps Stable black silks with cherry cap to victory four times, highlighted by the Grade 3 Top Flight Invitational Handicap in 2016. She only missed the board twice in 15 starts, and her seven additional graded stakes placings included, fittingly, a third in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes in 2016 at Belmont Park.
Trainers Shug McGaughey and Miguel Clement landed on the same spot Thursday at Aqueduct to try and reverse the fortunes of their millionaire graded stakes-winning turf horses Integration and Carson’s Run. Now, it’s a matter if Mother Nature will cooperate.
Integration and Carson’s Run are two of five horses entered for turf in Thursday’s conditioned allowance/optional-claiming feature which is scheduled for 1 3/16 miles on the outer turf course.
Timer Moses, a 9-year-old maiden, had a one-race career.
After finishing sixth of seven in an $8,500 claiming race for maidens at Turf Paradise on Friday, Timer Moses was sold privately over the weekend, according to owner and trainer Chad Story.
“He’s going to West Virginia to be a trail horse,” Story said.
Timer Moses broke slowly from an inside post in Friday’s race at five furlongs. He trailed by 10 lengths early and was beaten 6 3/4 lengths as the 5-2 second choice. Rocksalot, the 2-1 favorite, won the race by a nose over 7-2 River’s Benchmark.
Total commingled wagering on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville and its blockbuster supporting card fell for the first time in five years, according to charts of the races, but a move to prime time for Friday’s Kentucky Oaks produced significant gains.
Not only did the great Curlin complete his personal Triple Crown with Golden Tempo’s victory in the Kentucky Derby, having now sired a winner of each of the Triple Crown races, he had a unique Derby trifecta that showcases his multi-generational influence. Golden Tempo edged Renegade, who is out of a Curlin mare. Third-place finisher Ocelli is by Curlin’s son Connect, as Curlin continues to emerge as a sire of sires.
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Joe Orseno learned his lesson last time. With rain in the forecast at Gulfstream Park on Sunday, the trainer said he will scratch Mattingly and Extendo if the $75,000 Thirsty Fish Handicap is run on soft turf.
“Unfortunately, they’re calling for rain on Sunday, around 2 o’clock,” Orseno said. “If they decide to keep the race on the turf, I will not be running either one of my horses.”
In the $75,000 Go Cats Go Handicap last month, Orseno was of the opinion that the race should have been moved to synthetic after significant rainfall earlier in the day.
