OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Tizzy in the Sky is looking to rejuvenate her career, and for the 5-year-old mare there is no better place to do that than Aqueduct in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Go for Wand Stakes.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Saturday’s Grade 3, $135,000 Valedictory at Woodbine has a little bit of everything and more questions than answers.
Can trainer Rachel Halden notch another stakes with the long-winded duo of Collective Force and Roscar? How far will the speedy grasser Get Smokin take them? Will English Conqueror finally win his first stakes? Is the lightly raced Loose Wire ready for the move up to stakes company?
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – El Grande O ran well enough in his return to the races in late October to consider a return to stakes competition for the 3-year-old New York-bred colt. While trainer Linda Rice has plans to eventually do that, she will start El Grande O one more time in allowance company in Friday’s second-level allowance/optional $62,500 claiming feature at Aqueduct.
The 6 1/2-furlong race, which drew a field of seven, goes as race 4 on an eight-race card that begins at 12:10 p.m. and includes a rare allowance for 2-year-old colts going a mile.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Zealous Moon outran her odds, and then some, when winning her maiden at second asking despite going postward at a price of 49-1 earlier this fall at Keeneland. She will attempt to do so again Friday at Gulfstream Park when making her local debut against the boys in the afternoon’s $61,000 allowance and optional-claiming feature, to be decided at one mile on turf.
The stretch at Los Alamitos covers a hearty 1,380 feet, which, from trainer Andy Mathis’s perspective, may work for a closer such as Nothing Is Forever in Friday’s eighth race on the opening day of the track’s two-week December meeting.
Based at Pleasanton with Mathis, Nothing Is Forever has had success in Southern California this year, winning a maiden race for California-bred fillies and mares on turf at Del Mar on Aug. 16 and finishing third less than two weeks later in an allowance race for statebred fillies and mares on dirt.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn’s purses are projected to average more than $900,000 per card, and the riches over an extended period of dates have helped lure 17 new trainers to the meet.
“These are outfits that run in New York or Florida or California and elsewhere,” Oaklawn president Lou Cella said. “They’re making a concerted effort to relocate for the season. They see the shining star and they’re headed for it.”
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Patrons returning to Oaklawn for the new meet will see some changes near the sixteenth pole area of the apron.
“We’ve been around for over 100 years, so we always have to do something, and this year we’re expanding the Winning Colors Gift Shop and the Pony Express Grill,” track president Lou Cella said in late November.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The Oaklawn Park program for 3-year-olds is due a victory lap ahead of Friday’s season opener after it “hogged” the national spotlight this year with Arkansas-raced runners Mystik Dan winning the Kentucky Derby, Seize the Grey taking the Preakness, and Thorpedo Anna winning the Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Gold Square’s Hammerhead will experiment on Tapeta in Friday’s featured allowance route at Woodbine as part of a competitive five-horse field of 2-year-olds.
Hammerhead wound up sixth after a tardy start when debuting in a two-turn maiden special on the grass at Saratoga in August when he was trained by Chad Summers. The War Front colt was subsequently sent north of the border to trainer Kevin Attard, who saddled him to a third-place finish on the main turf here Sept. 15.