DEL MAR, Calif. – Steve Miyadi, trainer of Lieutenant Dan, doesn’t know exactly when or where his Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint runner-up will next start. He does know that he’s not itching for a rematch with Golden Pal.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The tantalizing possibility that Knicks Go and Life Is Good could meet in the Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 29 at Gulfstream Park was raised Sunday morning at Del Mar, when the trainers of both Breeders’ Cup winners said that was a likely next start.
Knicks Go won the 1 1/4-mile Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday to nail down both Horse of the Year and champion older male. He is scheduled to begin stud duty next spring at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky, but is expected to race one more time, in the Pegasus – which he won earlier this year – before retiring.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Trainer Brad Cox made it a point to briefly leave the raucous winner’s circle festivities following Knicks Go’s victory on Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Classic to walk over to his other horse in the race, Essential Quality, and give him a little pat on the head. It was a quick acknowledgement of just how much the dynamic colt has meant to Cox before he leaves his barn and heads off to begin his next career standing stud at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Kentucky.
Total commingled betting on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held at Del Mar outside of San Diego on Friday and Saturday was $154.45 million, according to charts of the races, a record for the event and up 9.5 percent over the amount bet on the races last year at Keeneland Racecourse in Kentucky.
Dr. Dana Stead, a veterinarian working for Del Mar, will have “sole authority” to communicate to stewards whether a horse should be scratched in the lead-up to the Breeders’ Cup races on Saturday, it was announced on Saturday in a joint statement issued by Del Mar, the California Horse Racing Board, and Breeders’ Cup.
The Friday running of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar has left bettors once again infuriated by the racing industry’s procedures and protocols, with social media abuzz with claims from longtime horseplayers that their confidence and enthusiasm for the sport has been irretrievably shaken.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Hit the Road will be scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Mile on Saturday after spiking a temperature, his trainer, Dan Blacker, said Friday morning.
Hit the Road, 15-1 on the Mile morning line, was discovered to have an elevated temperature at a most inopportune moment.
A U.S. District Court Judge has denied motions to suppress evidence collected on wiretaps that were filed by a number of the defendants in the wide-ranging case centered on the administration of illegal substances to both Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses, according to a court filing in the case.
Del Mar
Weather: CloudyTemp.: 56Track: FastTurf: Firm
DEL MAR, Calif. – Another cold, damp morning at Del Mar, with the fog holding off for the most part, although it showed bad timing by closing in over the track just as a dozen or so Europeans came out to put in some serious training on the turf course shortly before 7:30 a.m.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Domestic Spending and United on Thursday were both scratched from Saturday’s $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf by their connections after both geldings had inflammation in a front leg.
Their scratches opened up spots in the starting gate for both Bolshoi Ballet and Channel Maker to make the field.
