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Five positives for the medication levamisole in horses trained by Joe Sharp have been dropped because the medication was declassified in 2015, according to a Kentucky stewards ruling issued on Friday.
The ruling by the stewards acknowledged that levamisole is no longer a regulated substance in Kentucky, an argument that Sharp’s attorney, Clark Brewster, had made when appealing the positives. The horses that tested positive will remain disqualified from their races, but Sharp will avoid penalties.
The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, has been listed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite for the second of five pools in the 2022 Kentucky Derby Future Wager.
Pool 2 opens Friday at noon Eastern and runs through Sunday at 6 p.m.
Nine 3-year-olds headed by Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Pappacap were entered Saturday in the Lecomte Stakes, one of six stakes races on a marathon 14-horse card Jan. 22 at Fair Grounds.
The Lecomte is the second race in the local series of dirt-route stakes for colts and geldings who are 2-year-olds when the Fair Grounds meet commences on Thanksgiving and 3-year-olds after the New Year. Epicenter won the $100,000 Gun Runner on Dec. 26, first race in the series, and also was entered in the Lecomte, which will be contested over 1 1/16 miles.
Connections plotted the schedule early and had a blueprint: the Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic in May, the Resorts World Casino Manhattan in June, the Arlington Million in August, the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf in November. Bricks and Mortar had run in those four races and won them all on the way to an Eclipse Award as champion older male turf horse and Horse of the Year of 2019.
Jackie’s Warrior won four graded stakes last year and one was widely considered one of the best races of 2021.
The Grade 1, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial in August at Saratoga matched the undefeated Life Is Good against Jackie’s Warrior. It was a showdown not to be missed, and after a battle for the books it was Jackie’s Warrior by a neck over favorite Life Is Good.
Flightline saved the best for last in 2021.
He won the year’s penultimate Grade 1 with the year’s highest Beyer Speed Figure, earning a 118 in the Runhappy Malibu on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita.
“For the third start of his career, this is pretty remarkable,” Andrew Beyer, who created Beyer Speed Figures, told Daily Racing Form.
Flightline remained unbeaten in three starts with the Malibu win, and his exciting form has made him a finalist for the Eclipse Award for champion sprinter of 2021.
It was a whirlwind campaign for Aloha West in 2021.
In just 10 short months, he made the leap from debut winner to Eclipse Award finalist for outstanding male sprinter on the strength of his dramatic win in the $2 million Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
Aloha West was up for a nose victory in the Nov. 6 race at Del Mar. It was his first stakes win and after the race owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners were flanked in the winner’s circle by trainer Wayne Catalano and jockey Jose Ortiz.
Try to wrap your brain around the fact that after the 2017 racing season had ended, Brad Cox had amassed 20 graded stakes wins during a training career that began in 2004. In 2018, Cox equaled that career total with 20 graded wins. Talk about a meteoric rise. Cox won 30 graded races in 2020, landing his first Eclipse Award as North America’s leading trainer, and he went out and hit the same total again during 2021. Among his Grade 1 winners during the year was Knicks Go, who is likely to become the first Cox-trained Horse of the Year.