HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Add another Grade 1 winner, Power Squeeze, to the list of likely starters in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25.
Power Squeeze was one of two new horses added to the updated list of 12 invitees to the 1 1/8-mile Pegasus World Cup released Wednesday, along with recent Grade 3 winner Skinner. They replace J B Strikes Back and Rattle N Roll, who have been withdrawn from consideration.
It’s not like Brad Cox has abandoned Fair Grounds. He has a full barn of horses stabled in New Orleans, and entering this week’s racing was 10 for 32 at the meet, his win total second among trainers behind Steve Asmussen’s 12. Yet more and more of Cox’s top horses have been showing up on the work tab not at Fair Grounds but at the Payson Park training center in Florida, where Cox, for the first time, has bedded down a winter string.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Even while wind and fire raged across Southern California this week, and after racing collapsed in Northern California, positive news has emerged from Santa Anita this winter.
After eight days of racing, average field size is up by nearly one horse per race, to 8.08. Wagering handle is up 9 percent to a daily average of more than $11 million, and ontrack attendance is up 20 percent, according to Santa Anita.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – For nearly three years, Mosienko was the horse in trainer Dennis Lalman’s one-horse stable. Acquired in the summer of 2021, Mosienko won eight races from 30 starts for Lalman and his daughter Stacy, highlighted by a four-race winning streak from Aug. 6 to Oct. 6, 2022.
Last May, Mosienko was claimed from the Lalmans for $62,500 by David Jacobson. The now 8-year-old mare has since been claimed by Rick Dutrow and, more recently, Ilkay Kantarmaci.
