DEL MAR, Calif. - For most of her career, Ultra Blend has raced against California-breds, and done quite well. But her trainer, Art Sherman, has recently warmed to the idea of trying her against the best company out there, and Ultra Blend has continued to excel.In her last two starts, both Grade 2 races at Hollywood Park, Ultra Blend won the Milady Handicap via disqualification, and then lost by a whisker in the A Gleam Handicap.
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DEL MAR, Calif. - A track-record performance from Euroears in Sunday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes has left the 7-year-old firmly on course for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs in November.
How he gets there has yet to be determined by owner Jim Helzer and trainer Bob Baffert, Baffert said on Monday.
“The main thing is to get him to the Breeders’ Cup,” Baffert said. “I don’t know how. I’ve got to figure that out.”
OCEANPORT, N.J. - After watching a highly regarded 2-year-old flop in his debut on Saturday at Del Mar, then having their private plane re-routed to an inconvenient airport located miles from here early Sunday morning, the connections of Coil, trainer Bob Baffert said, thought they were enduring, as he put it, “the trip from hell.”
“We didn’t get to our hotel until 5 a.m.,” he said. “And they were out of rooms, so we had to double up on some.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - When trainer Marty Wolfson looked at the complexion of the two races he had entered Ask the Moon in on Sunday, he thought the mare fit better in the Grade 1, $250,000 Ruffian Invitational at Saratoga than the listed $100,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park.
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Not only did Wolfson feel his chances were better in the Ruffian, but he also felt he knew exactly how the 6-year-old mare could win the race.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Bourbon Bay won for the first time on a synthetic track, and scored his first stakes win since January, in Friday's $125,000 Cougar II Handicap at Del Mar.
With the victory in the Grade 3 race, Bourbon Bay ($6.40) earned a fees-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon in November, but trainer Neil Drysdale said Bourbon Bay was likely to return to turf racing.
On turf in the last 18 months, Bourbon Bay has won four graded stakes.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Larry Jones pulled into the Saratoga stable area here early Thursday morning with two older fillies in tow, both of whom will run in Sunday’s Grade 1 Ruffian Invitational Handicap. No, one of them wasn’t Havre de Grace.
In fact, only one of the two belonged to Jones, that being Payton d’Oro, who looks to step out from the shadow of her stablemate Havre de Grace in the $250,000 Ruffian, a 1 1/8-mile race that shares billing Sunday with the Grade 2, $150,000 Fourstardave Handicap on turf for older males.
Nathaniel captured his first Group 1 race and stamped himself as an elite 3-year-old by beating older horses in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday at Ascot.
The race, however, was marred by the breakdown of Godolphin’s Rewilding, who had won the Sheema Classic and Prince of Wales’s Stakes in his two starts this year. Rewilding had been held up in last much of the trip and went bad as soon as jockey Frankie Dettori swung out for his stretch run. Dettori walked into a waiting ambulance. Rewilding badly broke a cannon bone and had to be euthanized.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Irish Gypsy won her third consecutive stakes, and first at the graded level, in dramatic style in Saturday's $200,000 A Gleam Handicap at Hollywood Park.
Allowed to set a modest pace of 23.93 and 45.73 seconds, Irish Gypsy held off a late run from Ultra Blend to win the Grade 2 A Gleam Handicap by a nose. The victory gave Irish Gypsy a fees-paid berth to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs in November through the Breeders' Cup's Challenge program.
STANTON, Del. - Summer reruns can be boring. Not when they involve the star fillies Blind Luck and Havre de Grace.
Exactly 371 days after they first met at Delaware Park in the Delaware Oaks, Blind Luck and Havre de Grace, the two best older females in Thoroughbred racing, clashed again Saturday in the Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap. Just like last summer's Delaware Oaks, Blind Luck prevailed by a nose over her arch-rival Havre de Grace.