Gio Ponti had all the qualities an owner wants in a racehorse. He had class, ran a route, could run on any surface – especially turf – and won three Eclipse Awards. So how did he sire a horse such as Drefong, a high-class sprinter on dirt, in his first crop?
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Paid Up Subscriber has been declared out of the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita after trainer Al Stall Jr. decided the 4-year-old filly was not training to his satisfaction at Churchill Downs.
“When you’re shipping across country for a huge race like this, you’d better be training totally through the bridle,” Stall said late Thursday by phone. “We gave ourselves time to consider all that was involved, and the bottom line is we didn’t feel like shipping to California was the right thing to do.”
Santa Anita/Los Alamitos
Track: Fast
Weather: Clear
Temp. 68
ARCADIA, Calif. – With rain in the forecast, Thursday suddenly became the work day of choice for many Breeders’ Cup contenders, including five members of the prospective Classic field, led by California Chrome, who worked over his home course at Los Alamitos. Also working Thursday were Distaff rivals Songbird and Beholder at Santa Anita.
Trainer Kenny Black, once a jockey of considerable renown, will be running a horse in the Breeders’ Cup for the first time on Nov. 5, when he saddles What a View in the $2 million Mile against the best the U.S. and Europe have to offer.
There will be a brief pause while those familiar with the Kenny Black saga come to terms with this information.
What a View belongs in the Mile. The 5-year-old son of the Danzig stallion Vronsky is 5 for 5 on the Santa Anita turf course, including a victory in the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile over a strong field last March.
ARCADIA, Calif. – A Group 1 race at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in France on Sunday is expected to influence the list of runners for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 4.
Trainer Aidan O’Brien has three fillies pre-entered in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf – Hydrangea, Promise to Be True, and Roly Poly – and has entered Promise to Be True in Sunday’s $273,750 Criterium International at seven furlongs on turf at Saint-Cloud
ARCADIA, Calif. – The field for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita is in flux, owing to several horses being pre-entered in two races. Two of the runners committed to the race, Point Piper and Tamarkuz, turned in their final works for the race Thursday morning here at Santa Anita.
Point Piper, working in company, went five furlongs in 59.40 seconds for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
“Real nice,” said Hollendorfer. “He got a good, decent workout.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – On a frenetic morning that saw two Kentucky Derby winners work hours apart at tracks separated by 32 miles, five horses preparing for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5 turned in drills for the race on Thursday in Southern California, headed by the acknowledged favorite, California Chrome.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Erupt, the winner of the Grade 1 Canadian International at Woodbine on Oct. 16, will not be sent from his base in France to California for the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, trainer Francis-Henri Graffard said on Thursday.
“He’s not coming to the race,” Graffard said. “It’s too soon to put him back on the plane.”
Erupt ended a streak of seven consecutive losses with a 12-1 win in the Canadian International.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Songbird is all set for her role as Breeders’ Cup Distaff favorite. Beholder is prepared to play spoiler. She also is ready to become a broodmare.
Songbird glided through an effortless five-furlong workout at 6:45 a.m. Thursday at Santa Anita. One hour later, Beholder worked an easy six furlongs under jockey Gary Stevens, who suspected that Beholder was ovulating, based on her mannerisms.
“I knew when I got on her this morning, the way she was swishing her tail,” Stevens said. “A lot of them get super moody and temperamental.”
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 13:00
ELMONT, N.Y. – It was a cloudy, rainy, chilly Thursday morning in New York, but for jockey Manny Franco, it was a beautiful day as he guided Yellow Agate through a sharp five-furlong workout in 1:00.17 over the Belmont Park main track in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita.