HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Disarm is poised to return to graded-stakes company after opening his 5-year-old season with a sharp allowance win at Oaklawn Park.
Trainer Steve Asmussen said Disarm’s next race will likely come in either the Grade 2, $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap at 1 1/8 miles on April 19 or the Grade 2, $750,000 Alysheba at 1 1/16 miles on May 2 at Churchill Downs.
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The top Louisiana-bred racehorse of the last several years drew the rail for the penultimate race of the 2024-25 Fair Grounds meet, but as of Friday the question remained whether Touchuponastar would race on Sunday or one day earlier.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – William Shakespeare has been a topic of conversation at the barn of trainer Shea Stuart ever since he claimed Gloriette, who will seek her third straight win Sunday in the featured eighth race at Oaklawn Park.
The addition of the filly to the stable has completed a fun play on words centered on one of the best-known works of The Bard.
“In the barn, I have Al’s Romeo and I have her,” Stuart said, “Just coincidentally, they’re next to each other, so it’s Romeo and Gloriette. It’s kind of funny.”
In hopes of getting both horses qualified for the Kentucky Derby, trainer Chad Brown said that he is leaning toward running multiple Grade 1 winner Chancer McPatrick in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland while sending Hill Road to the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. Both races are on April 5.
Chancer McPatrick and Hill Road finished second and third, respectively, in the Tampa Bay Derby on March 8, the 3-year-old debut for both.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After a successful two-year stint training in Saudi Arabia, Jimmy Jerkens has returned to New York. Jerkens, 66, is weighing his options about his future in the sport.
Jerkens trained 12 individual Grade 1 winners, including two Breeders’ Cup winners, in a 26-year career before taking a job in Saudi Arabia to train for Faisal bin Khalid Al Saud. Jerkens said while he wants to be around horses, he is not interested in starting over from scratch in the U.S. with his own stable.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Soontobeking won the Gander Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds two weeks ago. His trainer, George Weaver, hopes he’s not the only statebred sophomore stakes winner in the barn.
Sunday, Weaver sends out the uncoupled entry of Super Swift and Vekinda in a first-level allowance/optional $80,000 claiming race for 3-year-old New York-breds at Aqueduct. The 6 1/2-furlong race could be used as a step toward a stakes opportunity in the future.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Vacation’s over for Will Then, the blaze-faced filly with four stockings who launches her 3-year-old campaign on Sunday in the $100,000 China Doll Stakes at Santa Anita.
Two weeks and two works after she was scratched from a comeback race against colts and geldings, the colorful Will Then is ready to fire for trainer Jonathan Thomas. If the Grade 3 winner picks up where she left off, the China Doll is hers for the taking.
