New Year’s Eve or White Frost will be favored in the Grade 3, $1 million Ladies Turf on Saturday at Kentucky Downs, but shorter prices do not always equate to large advantages, and this seven-runner field is wide open.
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A long plan will come to fruition as One Timer goes in the Grade 2, $1 million Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint on Saturday. The race is a Win and You’re In qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita.
One Timer is a five-time stakes winner for trainer Larry Rivelli and owners Richard Ravin and Patricia’s Hope LLC. The gelding showed an affinity for the Kentucky Downs course with a front-running 4 1/2-length victory in the Grade 2 Franklin-Simpson Stakes for 3-year-olds last September.
Eddie Owens and his sole client, Vincent Annarella’s Holly Crest Farm, won the $106,000 New Jersey Breeders’ Stakes with Speaking on Aug. 27 at Monmouth Park and the $127,500 Charles Hesse Handicap for New Jersey-breds on Sept. 4 with Great Navigator. A stakes double could become a triple if Sea Streak runs to expectations in the $100,000 Smoke Glacken Stakes on Saturday.
Expectations are high enough that this unraced New Jersey-bred debuts in an open six-figure stakes race.
Thu, 09/07/2023 - 14:40
One hit last Saturday, with Bright Future in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, one foul ball, with Skinner in the Pacific Classic, and one big whiff, with Churchtown in the Mint Millions. The major miss came at quirky Kentucky Downs, but we’re going right back to south central Kentucky for this Weekend GamePlan.
Kentucky Turf Cup
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Heavyweights Fev Rover and Moira will meet again in Saturday’s $200,000 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine. The about nine-furlong main turf event is a prelude to the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor here Oct. 8.
Fev Rover will try to win the Grade 2 Canadian for the second year in a row. She was promoted from fourth to third after Moira was disqualified from second to eighth in last year’s E.P. Taylor and has evolved into an even better runner this year for trainer Mark Casse.
Midnight Current will be looking for her ninth win over the Canterbury Park turf course on Saturday night, when she attempts to take down the $75,000 Princess Elaine for the second year in a row during the 30th annual Minnesota Festival of Champions.
The race, which is for fillies and mares over 1 1/16 miles, is one of six stakes on the card. The races are worth a total of $500,000 and are restricted to horses bred in Minnesota.
Mission of Joy, a multiple Grade 3 winner this year, gets slight class relief in Saturday’s $250,000 Virginia Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Colonial Downs.
The Oaks is one of six stakes on a program highlighted by the Grade 3, $500,000 Virginia Derby.
Trained by Graham Motion, Mission of Joy captured her first three turf starts, including the Florida Oaks on March 11 at Tampa Bay Downs. Following a troubled-trip third in the Grade 2 Edgewood on May 5 at Churchill Downs, Mission of Joy was a popular winner of the Regret there June 3.
Angiolleta is part of a small group within the 11 entrants in Saturday’s $100,000 Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf at a mile at Del Mar.
Only three of the fillies have won, and Angiolleta is one of only two winners at a mile on turf in the field. Flattery won a maiden race at a mile on turf in a slow time on Aug. 19 in her debut. The other winner is Tambo who proved best in an $80,000 claimer for maidens at 5 1/2 furlongs on dirt in her second start on July 28.
Program Trading puts his unbeaten record on the line Saturday in the Grade 3, $600,000 Virginia Derby for 3-year-olds traveling 1 1/8 miles at Colonial Downs.
Trained by Chad Brown, Program Trading has accomplished a great deal in a short amount of time. The Lope de Vega ridgling rallied impressively to graduate first out on May 14 at Monmouth Park, then grabbed a first-level allowance on June 25 at Belmont Park. Both of those races were at 1 1/16 miles.