Churchill Downs will prohibit horses that have been beaten 12 or more lengths in five consecutive races from running at the track until its equine medical director approves the horse’s participation, the track announced on Thursday just prior to beginning its live card for the day.
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DRF Past Performances
Belmont Park
Wednesday, May 31
Weather: Clear
Temperature: 55 degrees
Track: Fast
ELMONT, N.Y. – Only half the prospective 10 starters for this year’s Belmont Stakes are currently on the grounds, and all five of whom got in works over the local strip during the past five days. The last of that group is Peter Pan winner Arcangelo, who breezed shortly after the renovation break under regular rider Javier Castellano here Wednesday.
Richard Dutrow Jr., who recently returned to training after a 10-year suspension, was granted a Kentucky trainer’s license by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
Dutrow, a leading trainer when his license was suspended in 2011 by New York regulators for “conduct detrimental to racing,” last appeared before the Kentucky racing commission in 2020, when he attempted to gain a license despite still serving the 10-year suspension. He withdrew the application before the commission’s license review committee had a chance to vote on it.
BELMONT PARK May 30
Weather: Clear
Temperature: 55 degrees
Track: Fast
ELMONT, N.Y. -- NATIONAL TREASURE was back on the clocker’s tab Tuesday at Belmont Park, just 10 days after his hard-fought and very game victory in the Preakness. His work over a fast track came on an unseasonably cool morning playing out somewhat on the unconventional side, especially by trainer Bob Baffert’s standards.
A review of a recent rash of fatalities at Churchill Downs could conclude that the track should cease racing until factors behind the fatalities emerge, the chief executive of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority said on Tuesday.
Lisa Lazarus, the HISA chief, said that she has already had discussions with Churchill officials over the possibility of suspending racing at the track. Since the track opened for training on March 30, there have been 12 equine fatalities, spanning a number of causes, including two breakdowns that resulted in euthanasia this past weekend.
David Hooper, a longtime racing official whose career included turns as a steward, columnist, announcer, and educator, died on Monday, according to his family. Hooper, who had been receiving treatments for cancer for a decade, was 88 and died “peacefully” at home in Georgetown, Texas, his family said.
Hooper worked in racing for 60 years, most notably as a steward at racetracks in eight states. In 2018, he received the Pete Pedersen Award, the highest honor accorded to stewards. He officially retired in 2020 while working as a steward at Canterbury Park in Minnesota.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Neither Red Route One nor Raise Cain did anything in their Monday morning workouts to change their status as middle-of-the-pack to longshot prices for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 10 at Belmont Park.
Red Route One, fourth in the Preakness Stakes, worked a half-mile in 51.11 seconds over Belmont Park’s main track, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch. Red Route One went his first quarter in 25.38 seconds and galloped out five furlongs in 1:04.53.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Elite Power, the reigning champion sprinter, will run in the Grade 2, $250,000 True North Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs and not the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap on the June 10 Belmont Stakes program, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday.
STICKNEY, Ill. – Two Phil’s continues to thrive following his second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, but will pass on the final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, in favor of the Grade 3, $500,000 Ohio Derby on June 24 at Thistledown.