Even as Japanese racehorses have ascended over the last decade, becoming the most powerful force in international competition, the race the Japanese most covet, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, has eluded them. In fact, a Japanese horse easily could win a Kentucky Derby before one wins an Arc. It could happen as soon as this year.
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Led by Eclipse Award champion Just F Y I, 104 fillies, nearly identical to the number last year at this stage, have been nominated to the 150th running of the Grade 1, $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks on Friday, May 3, host track Churchill Downs announced Wednesday.
Fixed-odds betting on horse racing launched on Wednesday in Colorado after racing constituents in the state reached an agreement that will allow fixed-odds betting on racing signals imported to the state, according to the parties.
The agreement allows Bet365, a British company with operations in the U.S., to offer fixed-odds bets from tracks around the world, including two U.S. tracks, Evangeline Downs and Delta Downs, both in Louisiana. The agreement required consents from Arapahoe Park, the state’s horsemen, and the racing commission.
Sierra Leone, the 3-year-old colt who won the Risen Star Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds, closed as the lowest-priced individual horse in the fourth Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool, which wrapped up on Sunday night.
Sierra Leone was 6-1 at the close of the pool after running down Track Phantom in the late stages of the Risen Star, the only significant Derby prep held last weekend. Track Phantom ended up as the sixth individual choice in the pool, at 20-1.
Santa Anita canceled racing on Monday because of a forecast of extensive rain, the track announced on Saturday morning.
The $100,000 Tiznow Stakes for statebred milers on dirt was scheduled for Monday and may be run next Friday, the next scheduled day of racing, the track’s racing department said in a text message.
The track will race on Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
Linda Rice, who broke the single-season record for wins on the New York Racing Association circuit last year, has dropped her appeal of a 14-day suspension issued by the New York State Gaming Commission early last year and will serve the days beginning March 3, Rice said Friday.
Rice was issued the suspension by the NYSGC after a horse she trained, Afleet Arlene, tested positive for the regulated painkiller phenylbutazone following a race on Jan. 21, 2023. Two weeks earlier, another horse trained by Rice, Winter Pool, tested positive for the same drug.
Two graded stakes were downgraded for 2024 by The Jockey Club of Canada’s graded stakes committee during its annual review of graded and listed stakes in Canada.
The committee reviewed the North American Race Committee (NARC) figures and the Race Quality Scores (RQS) for all graded, listed, and potentially listed stakes in Canada.
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David Whitworth Beckman has helped many horses get to Triple Crown races. He worked with Uncle Mo and Eskendereya, both scratched in the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, and with Super Saver, who won the 2010 Derby. Beckman also laid hands on Good Magic, second in the 2018 Derby, and Cloud Computing, winner of the 2017 Preakness.
WHO’S HOT
Sierra Leone is the updated Derby Watch favorite, at least until he runs Saturday in an outstanding edition of the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds. Derby Watch linemaker David Aragona lists Sierra Leone as the tepid 12-1 choice after downgrading Locked, who missed his scheduled comeback last week after spiking a fever.
The multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed had a fever last week and was not among the U.S.-based horses who shipped Tuesday to Saudi Arabia for their bevy of rich stakes to be held at King Abdulaziz Racetrack on Feb. 24.
Casa Creed, an 8-year-old son of Jimmy Creed, was being pointed to the Group 2, $1.5 million 1351 Turf Sprint, a race in which he has finished second the last two years.
His trainer Bill Mott said Casa Creed’s fever forced him to miss a scheduled workout over the weekend.