Talkin, runner-up in the Grade 1 Champagne, and Mid-Atlantic stakes winners Balboa and Probably Dreaming will all be parked toward the outside in a 12-horse field entered for Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen Stakes going 1 1/8 miles.
Balboa, who won the John F Lewis Stakes going six furlongs at Laurel on Nov. 8, drew post 10 and is followed by Talkin and Probably Dreaming in posts 11 and 12.
Seven horses were entered Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, but expected race favorite Rated by Merit wasn’t among them.
Trainer Chad Brown said he wasn’t satisfied with how Rated by Merit worked Sunday morning at Belmont Park and thus decided to hold the undefeated 3-year-old out of the race, which would have been the colt’s first start against older horses. Rated by Merit went 4 for 4 as a 2-year-old and won the restricted Dwyer Stakes in his lone start at 3.
DEL MAR, Calif. - The late Hall of Fame trainer Charlie Whittingham needed 22 years to win four runnings of the Hollywood Derby at Hollywood Park from 1967 to 1989.
Chad Brown won a record fifth running of the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar on Saturday with the lightly raced Salamis. All of Brown’s Hollywood Derby wins have been at Del Mar, beginning with Annals of Time in 2016. Del Mar began running the Hollywood Derby in 2014 after Hollywood Park closed in 2013.
The milestone of winning a fifth Hollywood Derby over the weekend was not lost on Brown.
Brendan Walsh went into last week’s racing already having won a greater number of races and a greater amount of purse money than during any full season of a training career that started, for all intents and purposes, in 2012. Walsh also came into it with six more graded-stakes wins, 15, than in any previous year, and he came out of it with two more after Lush Lips won the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere on Friday and Bella Ballerina the Grade 2 Golden Rod at Churchill Downs on Saturday.
The final eight races of Aqueduct’s Sunday card were canceled when the jockeys refused to ride, citing myriad differences with management of the New York Racing Association.
Kendrick Carmouche, one of the leading riders on the circuit and the New York representative for the Jockeys’ Guild, cited several instances over the last year or more that the riders feel demonstrated a lack of respect by management to them.
The most recent came Sunday, when NYRA officials sent home Brian Pochman, the assistant clerk of scales. It was unclear exactly why Pochman was sent home.
The provincial government of British Columbia has informed horseman at Hastings Park in Vancouver that purse accounts will no longer receive subsidies from slot machines in an adjacent casino starting next year, according to a letter distributed by the track’s horsemen group.
Los Alamitos plans to implement wider safety protocols at its evening meeting for Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds after three Quarter Horses were euthanized as a result of injuries sustained during time trials for the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity on Sunday.
B Ratifyed, Backside Ace, and Champions Run were euthanized after sustaining musculoskeletal injuries, according to the California Horse Racing Board’s website.
Champion filly Rags to Riches, historic winner of the 2007 Belmont Stakes, among other major races, has died, the international Coolmore group reported on Monday.
The 21-year-old daughter of A.P. Indy passed "due to the infirmities of old age," according to a Coolmore release.
DEL MAR, Calif. - It’s a decades-long frustration for local commuters, and on Saturday afternoon it affected the races at Del Mar.
Southern California traffic.
Before dawn on Saturday, Interstate 5, the main route between Los Angeles and San Diego, was closed for several hours. It had significantly curtailed traffic flow in the morning and afternoon while police conducted an extensive investigation regarding a search for a suspect after a lengthy car chase and a shooting, according to news reports.
The California Horse Racing Board on Wednesday granted dates for a five-month daytime harness racing meeting at the Fresno fair tentatively scheduled from December 2026 to early May 2027.
No harness racing has been held in California since early May of this year at Cal-Expo in Sacramento after the board of directors at that state fair property terminated a lease agreement with the meeting's operators, Watch and Wager LLC.
