Seventh Heaven led an Aidan O’Brien-trained sweep of the top two placings Thursday in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks at York Racecourse, beating her favored stablemate, Found, by 2 3/4 lengths. Queen’s Trust finished third, and another O’Brien-trained filly, Pretty Perfect, was fourth, and none of these fillies is even rated the top female in the O’Brien stable, a position presently occupied by Minding.
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Bling On the Music will soon take her show to Churchill Downs.
The undefeated filly is being pointed to the Grade 2 Pocahontas after her 13-length romp over male rivals in the $100,000 Gold Rush Futurity last Saturday at Arapahoe Park.
“She earned a shot with that,” said J.R. Caldwell, who trains Bling On the Music for Keene Thoroughbreds.
The Pocahontas, a 1 1/16-mile race on Sept. 17, is a Win and You’re In for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The private acquisition of Express Himself by owners Pete and Kosta Hronis and trainer John Sadler in July may have occurred at the perfect time.
The addition of Express Himself gives Hronis Racing and Sadler a much-needed runner for the Southern California turf marathon division. The purchase could pay off quickly Saturday when Express Himself makes his American debut in the $250,000 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf.
Sobradora Inc, unbeaten in four starts in Argentina in 2015, will make her American debut in Sunday’s $75,000 Osunitas Stakes for fillies and mares at Del Mar. The minor stakes could put Sobradora Inc on course for the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita in November.
The 4-year-old Sobradora Inc has won three stakes, including consecutive Group 1 races at 1 1/4 miles on turf in Argentina last November and December. She has not raced this year.
DEL MAR, Calif. – A downhill turf sprint at Santa Anita is the next start for Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint candidate Alsvid, third behind Lord Nelson in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby on July 31 at Del Mar.
Trainer Chris Hartman said Thursday that Alsvid will start in the Grade 3 Eddie D. Stakes on Sept. 30, opening day of the Santa Anita fall meet. “That’s the plan,” Hartman said. “The only races he’s run on turf were five furlongs; he needs a little more distance.”
The Eddie D. is 6 1/2 furlongs, a distance Hartman believes “should hit him right in the grill.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The connections of Wavell Avenue are hoping that by taking a step back this summer it will help their 5-year-old mare take a leap forward in the fall.
The first part of the plan was executed perfectly as Wavell Avenue, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner, took advantage of a ground-saving trip and a fast pace to win Wednesday’s $100,000 Shine Again Stakes by 1 3/4 lengths at Saratoga.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The plans for Stellar Wind for the late summer and fall had been set in stone even before she defeated Beholder in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes on Saturday, but the loss by Beholder may alter her near-term schedule, putting in jeopardy a title defense against males in Del Mar’s biggest race of the summer, the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 20.
Stellar Wind has had the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita as her year-end goal, and she’ll race just once before that, in the Grade 1 Zenyatta at Santa Anita on Oct. 1.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Usually the ocean breeze off the nearby Pacific is quite calm, but on Saturday at Del Mar a mighty wind blew in and re-arranged the pre-conceived order of the older female division. In a battle of two Eclipse Award winners, Stellar Wind outbattled the great Beholder by a half-length in the Grade 1, $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes, the championship race of the meet for older fillies and mares.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The Breeders’ Cup is three months and 100 miles away, which is not too soon, nor too far away, to start dreaming about it on Sunday at Del Mar.
“Right now, it’s okay to dream in Technicolor,” trainer Bob Baffert said. “When we go to write that check for the [Breeders’ Cup] pre-entry, then we dream in black and white. That’s the difference.”