Turfway Park has partnered with legendary Claiborne Farm for an upcoming series of stakes races where fillies and mares will receive a future stallion credit to be used upon their retirement from racing.
The series, which has been dubbed the “Make Your Mare” series, consists of the $125,000 Holiday Inaugural Stakes on Dec. 2, the $125,000 My Charmer Stakes on Dec. 9, and the $125,000 Likely Exchange Stakes on Jan. 13.
Triple Crown winner Justify, who has made a meteoric rise in the international sire ranks, scored a double with his juveniles on the Future Stars Friday program at the Breeders’ Cup. Just F Y I won the Juvenile Fillies to likely secure a divisional championship, followed, less than an hour later, by Hard to Justify’s win in the Juvenile Fillies Turf.
It was 15 years ago that the imposing Curlin concluded his career at the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita. The two-time Horse of the Year and first-ballot Hall of Famer quickly showed his mettle as a sire, with 2013 Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice emerging from his first crop.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The results of the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita left at least three candidates who could lay claim to Horse of the Year honors.
Cody’s Wish, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile; White Abarrio, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic; and Idiomatic, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, all have legitimate arguments for the honor, but all have some flaws as well. An argument also could be made for Up to the Mark, who fell just short in the $4 million Turf but has three Grade 1 victories.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Echo Zulu continues to recover at a Southern California vet clinic from fractured sesamoids sustained in a workout Oct. 13 at Santa Anita.
Echo Zulu, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2021, is expected to remain at the clinic for several weeks, according to Scott Blasi, assistant to trainer Steve Asmussen.
“She continues to impress us always,” Blasi said in the Santa Anita stables on Sunday.
“She’ll be around here for a while. Every day you get further away is a good day.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., the nation’s clear leader in wins and earnings this year, has been suspended three days for causing interference in his winning ride on Goodnight Olive in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita.
In a ruling published by stewards Grant Baker, Luis Jauregui, and Kim Sawyer on Sunday, Ortiz was cited for failing to maintain a straight course and causing interference in the stretch of the seven-furlong race. Goodnight Olive was not disqualified from the victory.
ARCADIA, Calif. –It was a long Breeders’ Cup weekend for California-based stables. Very long.
On Friday and Saturday, 33 horses based in the state started in Breeders’ Cup races, with Muth (Juvenile) and National Treasure (Dirt Mile) as the only top three finishers.
Muth and National Treasure are trained by Bob Baffert, who had nine runners in Breeders’ Cup races.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse sends out two contenders in Thursday’s Woodbine feature, Mrs. Green and Ambassador Luna, who are drawn at opposite ends of the gate in the conditioned allowance that has a $50,000 claiming option.
Mrs. Green breaks from the rail under Patrick Husbands in her second Tapeta start. The 4-year-old has been campaigned as a turf specialist and was victorious in a lucrative first-level allowance last fall at Aqueduct.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Tamara, the beaten favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Friday at Santa Anita, will miss two months of training after being diagnosed with a cracked splint bone, trainer Richard Mandella said Sunday.
The injury was diagnosed Saturday.
“She’ll need a couple of months off,” Mandella said. “It’s not bad. She was off a little bit.”
There’s record purse money up for grabs this meet at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M.
Track officials project Zia will average $350,000 a day in overnight purses during the season that runs through Dec. 20. In addition, Zia’s stakes schedule features three $1 million cards. They include the $1.1 million Land of Enchantment program led by the $300,000 Zia Park Derby and $300,000 Zia Park Oaks on Nov. 28.
