Through a career that has been built largely on the success of his turf division, Chad Brown has not had the Kentucky Derby as a top priority. However, now into his 17th year of training horses, Brown admits the Derby is a race that has become more top of mind.
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The Breeders’ Cup Classic and the Breeders’ Cup Turf, the two richest races run in North America, will each receive $1 million purse boosts in 2024, Breeders’ Cup announced Tuesday.
The Classic will be run this year with a $7 million purse, while the Turf’s purse will be boosted to $5 million. The Classic has been contested at 1 1/4 miles since the inception of the Breeders’ Cup, while the Turf has been run at 1 1/2 miles.
Approximately 600 players will vie for an $800,000 top prize at this year’s National Horseplayers Championship, which begins Friday at the Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Held annually for the past 24 years, the National Horseplayers Championship offers more prize money than any handicapping tournament in the world. In addition to the grand prize money of $800,000, the winner receives an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of the Year. A total of $4.5 million in cash and prizes will be awarded.
B. Douglas Thomas, a journeyman rider who finished his 30-year career with nearly 2,100 career wins and multiple riding titles in New Jersey died on March 9 of a heart attack at his home in Sun City West, Ariz., according to his family. Thomas was 78.
A native of Canada who began his riding career at Fort Erie racetrack in the 1960s, Thomas was one of the leading riders at Monmouth and the Meadowlands in the late 70s and early 80s. From 1977-81, he amassed 690 wins from 5,514 starts and nearly $7 million in earnings.
The sixth race at Los Alamitos on Sunday evening was cancelled after five of the six runners were scratched, according to the track’s website and two trainers.
The sixth race, an allowance race at 1,000 yards, was open to Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds and drew a field entirely of Thoroughbreds.
As a result, betting was cancelled on the $2 pick six, the $1 place pick all, the late $1 pick four and $1 pick three bets beginning with the fourth and the sixth races, according to a track official.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Tamara, the beaten favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita in November, recently resumed training at Santa Anita for a springtime comeback.
“She’s galloping,” trainer Richard Mandella said Sunday. “She won’t work for another couple of weeks. She looks great.”
ARCADIA, Calif. - Newgate, winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap on March 3, and Hopkins, second by a nose in a thrilling running of the Grade 3 Palos Verdes Stakes on Feb. 10, are bound for world-class stakes at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on March 30, trainer Bob Baffert confirmed on Sunday.
Newgate will start in the $12 million Dubai World Cup at 1 1/4 miles, a race Baffert has won four times. Newgate has won 3 of 9 starts. The Big Cap was the 4-year-old colt’s most prestigious win and first career start at 1 1/4 miles.
The disruption on Saturday that led Tampa Bay Downs to run its most prestigious race, the Tampa Bay Derby, as a non-wagering event was caused by a communications outage between the bet-processing center at AmTote and the track, according to a joint statement from the communications provider and the parent company of AmTote.