HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Arindel will look to add to its already impressive résumé in the 2-year-old division at Gulfstream Park this season when sending out two of the top contenders, Kiss and Hepburn, in Sunday’s $65,000 Hallandale Beach Stakes. A field of seven juvenile fillies was drawn for the main event to be decided at a mile on the main track.
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Skyler’s Starship was no match for El Grande O when the two met in a maiden race at Belmont Park in July. Nearly three months later, Skyler’s Starship may be the main threat to El Grande O when the two meet again in Sunday’s $125,000 Bertram F. Bongard Stakes for New York-bred juveniles at Aqueduct.
The Bongard and its filly counterpart, the Joseph A. Gimma, are the co-featured events on a nine-race card that begins at 1:05 p.m. Both races are run at seven furlongs.
Trainer Brian Lynch is hoping Ancient Peace will have a tactical advantage Sunday when she makes her Midwest debut in the Grade 3, $200,000 Remington Park Oaks.
“I think she should be the speed of the race,” he said. “That’s what I’m seeing from here.”
The Remington Park Oaks, which will be run over 1 1/16 miles, is one of eight stakes on a 10-race card that ends with the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby. First post for the lone Sunday card of the meet is 3 p.m. Central.
Gustavo Delgado this year became the first Hispanic trainer to win the Kentucky Derby since Lazaro Barerra did it in 1978 with Affirmed.
There have been a number of successful trainers of Hispanic heritage throughout the annals of racing history, including Hall of Famers Horatio Luro, Angel Penna Sr., Barrera, and Frank “Pancho” Martin.
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Daily Racing Form profiles three Hispanic trainers currently making their mark on the game.
John Ortiz
On consecutive Sundays earlier this month, Buck Owens went from a win in a 1,000-yard allowance race at Los Alamitos as the even-money favorite on Sept. 3 to a third-place finish at 67-1 in an allowance race at Del Mar a week later.
For his third start of September, Buck Owens starts on friendly territory in an allowance race at a mile for statebreds at Los Alamitos on Sunday’s final day of the two-week September meeting.
Santa Anita begins its six-week autumn meeting next Friday, a season that includes the Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 3-4.
More than likely, there will be a significant number of yearlings sold for $100,000 or more at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton California fall yearlings and horses of racing age sale at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.
The final number in that category may determine whether buyers are paying higher prices overall than in past years for racing prospects or unveiling an occasional bargain.
Hall of Fame trainers and some of the nation’s leading jockeys will compete on Monday at Finger Lakes.
The co-features on the eight-race card are the $99,388 Aspirant and its sister stakes, the $103,159 Lady Finger, both at 5 1/2 furlongs for New York-bred 2-year-olds. The races are preps for the $200,000 New York Breeders Futurity on Oct. 16 at Finger Lakes. The winners of both stakes receive free entry to the six-furlong Futurity.
Hit Show is proving to be a 3-year-old for all seasons, with a winter win in the Withers, spring starts in two legs of the Triple Crown, and the role of favorite this first Sunday of fall in the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park.
“Still going, still solid,” trainer Brad Cox said.
The Oklahoma Derby at 1 1/8 miles anchors a card of eight stakes worth a total of more than $1 million. The program starts at 3 p.m. Central and also features the Grade 3, $200,000 Remington Park Oaks.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Never Silent heads a salty field of fillies in Sunday’s $100,000 Victorian Queen at Woodbine, one of two seven-furlong turf stakes for Ontario-sired juveniles, along with the Bull Page for the boys.
Never Silent bypassed last weekend’s Grade 1 Natalma in favor of this easier spot. She had a wide trip when closing for third in the prep for the Natalma, the 6 1/2-furlong Catch a Glimpse Stakes, for which she got an 80 Beyer Speed Figure.
The Grade 3, $300,000 Dogwood Stakes on Saturday night at Churchill Downs provides a big opportunity. None of the nine 3-year-old fillies entered for this sprint have ever won a graded stakes race before, giving them a chance to add some black type to their page and to add their name to a list of previous winners that includes champions Covfefe (2019) and Echo Zulu (2022) in recent years.