Thu, 09/19/2024 - 09:45

Dancing Duchess may be the right Casse in Zadracarta

Dancing Duchess wins Alywow at WO June 22 2024
Michael Burns
Dancing Duchess wins the Alywow Stakes in June during a driving rainstorm. She will shorten back up to a sprint in Satuday's Zadracarta after an even run going 1 1/16 miles in the Bison City.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – “The other Casse” has been a viable angle at Woodbine for nearly 20 years, with the latest example being Win for the Money’s 13-1 score over stablemate Filo Di Arianna in last Saturday’s Grade 1 Woodbine Mile.

Casse sends out two contenders in Saturday’s $100,000 Zadracarta Stakes – the 3-year-olds Dancing Duchess and Olivia Rose. It’s unclear which one will be favored in the five-furlong dash for Ontario-bred fillies and mares, but one of them might offer better value than the other.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 14:00

Megan Makin Money back to six furlongs

Megan Makin Money returns to the six-furlong distance of her last win for Friday’s third race, an $8,000 starter allowance for fillies and mares that carries a claiming option of $16,000.

Megan Makin Money is coming off a runner-up finish in a first-level allowance for Florida-breds at 5 1/2 furlongs. Before the start, she won at this level and distance by a dominating 4 1/4 lengths. Emisael Jaramillo, who was aboard, has the mount from post 4.

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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 13:55

Win and You're In Princess Rooney draws 10

Ryan Thompson
Beth's Dream drew the outside post in a field of 10 for Saturday's Princess Rooney.

The Grade 3, $220,000 Princess Rooney Invitational on Saturday at Gulfstream drew 10 fillies and mares led by Soul of an Angel and Beth’s Dream.

The field will meet over seven furlongs in a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 13:50

Keeneland stakes on agenda for Orseno pair

Ryan Denver
Beauty of the Sea will be pointing at the Grade 2, $350,000 Franklin Stakes Oct. 13 at Keeneland.

Trainer Joe Orseno is pointing a pair of Gulfstream Park turf sprint winners, Beauty of the Sea and Etrurian, to races at Keeneland.

He said Beauty of the Sea is targeting the Grade 2, $350,000 Franklin. The 5 1/2-furlong turf race for fillies and mares is Oct. 13.

Beauty of the Sea blazed five furlongs in 54.43 seconds winning an overnight handicap in April, then went on to win the Goldwood at Monmouth Park and the Andy Guest at Colonial Downs.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 13:40

McGaughey has good shot in two of four allowance races

Battle of Normandy wins at SAR July 14 2024
Barbara D. Livingston
After failing to get into a race at Kentucky Downs, Shug McGaughey will cut Battle of Normandy back in distance on Friday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A quartet of allowance races – two scheduled for turf and two for the dirt – highlight a solid nine-race card Friday at Aqueduct.

Trainer Shug McGaughey looks to have significant chances in two of those allowance events when he runs Battle of Normandy in a conditioned allowance/optional $80,000 claimer going 1 1/16 miles on turf and Pentathlon in a first-level allowance scheduled for 1 1/8 miles on dirt.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 13:05

Miz Keeta looks to bounce back in Miss Southern Ohio Stakes

Miz Keeta, who took a big leap forward the first time she went two turns on the turf, will look to bounce back from a fifth-place finish in the Tomboy Stakes when she takes on older horses for the first time in the $75,000 Miss Southern Ohio Stakes on Friday at Belterra Park. The race is for Ohio-accredited fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles on the turf.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 12:50

Pokerknightatvees primed for debut score

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Redline gives Doug O'Neill a strong contender in Friday's third race, a starter-allowance sprint.

California-breds young and old compete in key races Friday at Los Alamitos as the six-day meet enters closing weekend.

Two-year-old maidens in race 2 are followed by older California-breds in a pair of allowance/optional-claiming races. Sprinters, including 9-year-old veteran Sunrise Journey, run short in race 5; two-turn fillies and mares, led by horse-for-course Professors’ Pride, go long in race 7.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 12:15

Flat Hanby likely for Oklahoma Derby

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Flat Hanby has won five races in a row, including the Canterbury Derby (above) by six lengths.

Flat Hanby, who has won his last five starts, is under serious consideration for the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sept. 29 at Remington Park, according to his trainer, Boyd Caster.

Entries for the race, which is part of a card of eight stakes, will be taken Saturday.

Flat Hanby has won stakes in each of his last three starts, the latest a division of the Oklahoma Stallion Stakes over seven furlongs Sept. 6 at his base of Remington. He won by 6 1/4 lengths for a Beyer Speed Figure of 81.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 12:15

Uno Mas Bourbon's Super Derby win gives Wilkes one of his own

Uno Mas Bourbon wins Super Derby at LAD Sept 14 2024
Ann Switalski Photography
Super Derby winner Uno Mas Bourbon was trainer Ian Wilke's first starter at Louisiana Downs. When he worked for Carl Nafzger, he accompanied Home At Last and Unbridled to the track for the Super Derby.

Uno Mas Bourbon, who won the $250,000 Super Derby last Saturday at Louisiana Downs, was trainer Ian Wilkes’s first starter at the Bossier City, La., track – but not his first experience with the meet’s most prestigious race.

“The last time I was there was with Unbridled and Home At Last with Carl Nafzger,” Wilkes said of his time as an exercise rider and later assistant to Nafzger.

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 12:15

Run Slewpy Run trying to win Bob Barry Memorial for fourth straight year

Run Slewpy Run wins Bob Barry Memorial at RP Sept 22 2023
Dustin Orona Photography
Run Slewpy Run wins the 2023 Bob Barry Memorial. She should move forward off her late August comeback run in Friday's running of the race.

Run Slewpy Run will attempt to win the $50,000 Bob Barry Memorial for the fourth consecutive year Friday night at Remington Park.

The race for fillies and mares is one of three Oklahoma-bred turf stakes on the card. It will be run over 7 1/2 furlongs, the same distance as the $50,000 Red Earth for 3-year-olds and up. The program also includes the $50,000 Remington Park Turf Sprint.

“She’s trying to go for four in a row,” trainer Jayde Gelner said. “That’s hard to do.”