In Pink Polkadots, the trainer Joe Sharp and owner Carl Moore have a very promising 3-year-old grass filly for the $100,000 Allen “Black Cat” Lacombe Memorial Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds. Problem is, they might not have a grass race for Pink Polkadots.
A neck separated Hot Fudge and Kant Hurry Love on Dec. 9 in the Garland of Roses Stakes, and those two mares are set to meet again Saturday at Aqueduct in the $100,000 Correction Stakes.
The six-furlong dash for older fillies and mares drew a field of eight light on accomplishment. Only Hot Fudge has won an open stakes race, and among the other entrants, Kant Hurry Love and Secret Love are the other two stakes winners, with those victories coming against New York-bred competition.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Turf sprinters on the Santa Anita hillside course will run for a lot more money this fall than the $100,000 offered Saturday in the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes, but the winter stakes came up deep even if the purse did not.
Nine veterans – eight geldings and a ridgling – will try to establish hillside form in the San Simeon on Saturday, while their connections ponder a lucrative hillside stakes race in September. The purse for the Grade 2 Eddie D will be boosted to $750,000, according to 1/ST Racing.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Red Carpet Ready, winner of the Grade 3 Forward Gal here in rather handy fashion a year ago, has returned to South Florida to launch her 4-year-old campaign Saturday in the Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie Stakes.
The 6 1/2-furlong Hurricane Bertie is the second of two stakes on a card that includes the $100,000 Silks Run, which will feature the 2024 debut of Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint runner-up Big Invasion.
Glengarry is gearing up for a return to the races. One of the most accomplished 3-year-olds in training at Oaklawn, he was given some time after his runner-up finish in the $300,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park in December.
“We’re just kind of getting back going,” trainer Doug Anderson said Saturday. “We worked him Friday. He worked good – just a nice, easy, first half-mile since he’d run. Our plans are kind of up in the air right now. We’ll see how he keeps progressing and go from there.”
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Midnight Rising’s connections had wanted to get the 4-year-old on dirt for nearly a year and after two big performances this meet at Oaklawn Park he’s unbeaten on the surface – and bound for stakes action.
Trainer Jordan Blair said Tuesday that Midnight Rising is scheduled to make his next start in the Grade 3, $500,000 Oaklawn Mile on March 30.
