Fulleffort has turned in two good efforts already in Turfway Park’s two-turn series for 3-year-olds.
“He’s had a good winter there at Turfway,” trainer Brad Cox said. “It’s his home court.”
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A pair of Grade 1-tested turf sprinters idle since the fall, Intricate Spirit and Casson, will launch their 3-year-old campaigns against seven rivals Saturday at Gulfstream Park in an intriguing renewal of the $125,000 Texas Glitter Stakes.
The Texas Glitter is carded at five furlongs on turf, weather permitting. Grass racing was canceled here Thursday after several days of steady rain, although the forecast is calling for just a minimal chance of precipitation over the local area on Saturday.
NEW ORLEANS – A jovial veteran barn foreman waiting to help lead his trainer’s set back to the Fair Grounds stables stood on a viewing platform at about the seven-eighths pole Wednesday morning. A bay filly from another barn, wearing a Brendan Walsh saddle towel, finished her gallop, pulling up and joining her pony, turning around to head off the track. “You can always tell the good ones right away,” the foreman averred.
It was a year ago that Mercante had his coming-out party. Away from the races from July 2023 to November 2024 with an injury and transferred to trainer Brian Knippenberg, who had handled his rehabilitation, the gelding won his stakes debut in the Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Classic.
Mercante finished second, beaten less than a length, in the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs in his following start. He went on to win the Grade 3 Arlington and finish third in the Grade 3 River City, both at Churchill, while earning more than $750,000 on the year.
Resplendence has now drawn the inside post three races in a row in big fields. The first two times resulted in front-running wins at Turfway Park. She’ll try to extend her streak in the $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday’s marquee card of the meet.
PHOENIX – Five stakes led by the meet’s marquee event on Saturday puts a cherry on top of the stand at Turf Paradise.
The $50,000 Phoenix Gold Cup Handicap at six furlongs has lured a 10-horse field full of speed, headed by dangerous shippers Book Smart and Augusta Melody and hot local sprinter Mission Beach. It goes as finale on an eight-race card.
ARCADIA, Calif. – A pair of veteran stakes winners who were stymied last month at 1 1/4 miles seek redemption stretching to 1 1/2 miles on turf Saturday at Santa Anita in the Grade 3 San Luis Rey Stakes.
Gold Phoenix and Truly Quality enter as top choices despite last-out losses, while Mondego and Watsonville enter with upset credentials. Eight older horses are entered in the $100,000 San Luis Rey, the ninth and final race on Saturday.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Faust, who ran in one of the fastest six-furlong races of the meet in his last start, is back in at the same distance for Friday’s featured ninth race at Oaklawn Park.
Faust is one of eight entered in an entry-level allowance for 3-year-olds and up. The race is one of several interesting offerings on the card. There also is a ratings handicap and a pair of starter allowances among the 10 races Friday.
For more than a decade before going out on his own in 2017 to train, Rodolphe Brisset was a fixture on the backstretch at Belmont Park and Saratoga, exercising some of the best horses in the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott.
Brisset, whose main base of operation has been Kentucky, wants to maintain a year-round presence in New York and plans to open a division beginning this spring. He said he plans to have 10 to 12 horses based at Belmont Park during the upcoming spring meet that begins April 2.