ARCADIA, Calif. - Newgrange, winner of the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, has been held out of Saturday’s Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park in favor of the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita the same day.
The decision was based on a plan to send Newgrange to Saudi Arabia or Dubai in coming months, if the four-time stakes winner performs well on Saturday.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Live racing at Aqueduct was canceled for a second consecutive card Sunday due to continued cold conditions in the New York Metropolitan area.
Temperatures Sunday morning were in the low 20s with windchills around 11 degrees. Conditions were expected to improve throughout the day. Unlike Saturday's card, which was canceled on Friday, the decision to cancel Sunday was announced around 10 a.m., roughly 2 1/2 hours before first post.
Laurel Park on Sunday canceled its racing card, the third consecutive program abandoned due to extreme weather conditions.
Roughly four inches of snow fell in the region beginning early Friday morning, and that afternoon’s program was terminated as was Saturday’s stakes-laden card.
Concerns that moisture from the Friday snowstorm would impact the racing surface forced Sunday’s cancellation, according to a release from the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association.
Los Alamitos has cancelled a nine-race program for Saturday evening following steady rain that fell Saturday morning and was expected to continue through the day.
The decision was made shortly after noon.
“There is still some rain in the forecast,” track spokesman Orlando Gutierrez said. “We’ve had a nice steady rain.”
Racing is scheduled for Sunday with a nine-race program to begin at 5 p.m. Pacific. The Sunday program will include a carryover of $29,854 in the $2 pick six from Jan. 14.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Live racing at Aqueduct Saturday – as well as morning training at Belmont Park – has been canceled due to a forecast that calls for wind-chills in the single-digits, the New York Racing Association announced Friday afternoon.
After light snow fell throughout most of Friday’s card, during which all scheduled eight races were run, temperatures were forecasted to plummet overnight and the high for Saturday was expected to reach only 24 degrees, but with wind-chills in the 5-to-10-degree range, according to the National Weather Service.
Prince Faisal Bin Khaled Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has purchased a share in Breeders’ Cup Classic winner White Abarrio as part of new partnership with C2 Racing Stable, according to C2 Racing owner and racing manager Mark Cornett. White Abarrio will make his next start in the $20 million Saudi Cup on Feb. 24.
Stuart S. Janney III, the longtime owner and breeder who is the chairman of The Jockey Club, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, considered one of the highest honors in racing, according to the administrators of the awards.
The California Authority of Racing Fairs presented a broad outline to the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday to relocate year-round racing in Northern California to Sacramento or Pleasanton as early as September following the planned closure of Golden Gate Fields in the Bay Area in June.
Tom Hammond, the veteran broadcaster who spent decades with NBC as an announcer for its Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup broadcasts, along with other high-profile sports, will receive a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence, the administrators of the Eclipse Awards announced Thursday.
The late gelding Danjer, the winner of two leading stakes at Remington Park in the spring, was named 2023 Quarter Horse World Champion at a ceremony at the Heritage Place sales pavilion in Oklahoma City on Wednesday evening.
The award comes seven months after Danjer died of an aneurysm while based at Ruidoso Downs.
