[bc_video_id:324310:]BALTIMORE - On a cool, cloudy, damp morning - totally unlike Tuesday here - Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome had a leisurely 1 1/2-mile gallop shortly before 7 a.m. on Wednesday over Pimlico’s main track.
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Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, home of the $10 million Dubai World Cup, will replace its Tapeta Footings synthetic main track with a dirt track before the start of its 2014-15 racing season late this year.
The surface switch, loudly rumored since the week of the March 29 Dubai World Cup, was made public in a release Wednesday from the board of directors of The Meydan Group.
LEXINGTON – New withdrawal times for regulated medications will go into effect in Kentucky on June 6, officials for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission said at a meeting of the commission on Tuesday at the Kentucky Horse Park.
The date for the advent of the new regulations was established earlier in the day when a legislative committee informed commission staff that it would not need to review the regulations further before they went into effect, according to Dr. Mary Scollay, the equine medical director of the commission.
Churchill Downs Inc. has promised Louisiana lawmakers that it will spend almost $1 million on Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans by the start of the track’s fall meet, a deal that will give the company a reprieve from a bill that would force the track to commit a portion of its slot-machine revenue each year to track improvements.
BALTIMORE – Late Monday afternoon, when California Chrome had arrived at Pimlico after shipping from Churchill Downs, assistant trainer Alan Sherman said the colt’s connections had not yet decided whether California Chrome would jog or gallop during his first training session in Baltimore.
Out on the racetrack Tuesday morning, California Chrome had an easy jog, and the decision to take a less-demanding path cleaved to the general approach trainer Art Sherman and his team are employing with the Derby winner.
Willie Delgado left Maryland in August. He had been training a few horses and exercising horses for another stable. He went to Southern California to visit his brother, Alberto, a longtime jockey and former Maryland mainstay with more than 2,900 wins. Willie, 46, moved to California in September.
“I had a bunch of bad horses,” Delgado said. “I was galloping for Dove Houghton and training on my own. It just never peaked for me with training. I just went back to what I do best, which is galloping horses.”
BALTIMORE – California Chrome had been standing on the Pimlico loam for only a minute or two Tuesday morning when he let out an inordinately long and loud whinny, as if to say, “What is this new place?”
Some 30 minutes later, after the colt had made an uneventful first-ever circuit of the track, assistant trainer Alan Sherman grinned about it.
“That’s him,” said Sherman.
California Chrome, the Kentucky Derby winner, left Kentucky on Monday bound for Baltimore, where on Saturday he will attempt to keep his Triple Crown hopes alive in the 139th Preakness Stakes. It appears he will face nine rivals, exactly half of what he met in the Derby.
BALTIMORE - Showing no lingering effects from a foot bruise that forced him to be scratched from a Gulfstream stakes race May 3, Social Inclusion worked a fast, strong four furlongs with a powerful gallop-out Monday morning at Pimlico in a prep for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday.