For the fourth straight day, winter weather has forced the cancellation of live racing at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., on Sunday. The track also lost six of its races to wet weather last Sunday.
Oaklawn expects to resume racing Thursday, with a five-day week that includes the Grade 3, $300,000 Southwest Stakes for 3-year-olds next Monday, Feb 17. Arkansas is under a winter storm warning through early Tuesday.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Longshot winners Two More Jacs ($43) and Hackleton ($46.60) helped produce a pick six carryover of $83,355 into Sunday’s card at Aqueduct.
Coming up with five of six was a chore Saturday, but those who did received a consolation payout of $18,886.
Kim Hammond became the first female trainer in North America to win 2,000 Thoroughbred races when Big Smooth took the fourth race at Turfway Park Saturday.
Hammond, 56, nearing her 35th year as a trainer, is the winningest female trainer in the sport, ahead of such notable trainers as Christine Janks, Kathleen O’Connell, Stephanie Beattie, and Linda Rice.
Although Hall of Famer Bill Mott’s European transfers typically perform better once they have started a few times for him, RIPOSTE still rates on top in the Suwannee River based on – what the British would say – “cracking” good form. Her works on dirt at Payson have been encouraging leading up to her first start of 2014; at her best on firm ground.
Even Echo, a Kentucky-bred 3-year-old owned and trained by Myung Kwon Cho, has been added to the list of horses nominated to the Triple Crown after the nomination sent in by Cho was received via “late mail,” Churchill Downs said on Friday.
Even Echo’s nomination brings the total number of horses nominated to the 2014 Triple Crown to 414, a record. The nomination makes a horse eligible to start in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A pair of Eclipse Award winners, one at the end of her brilliant career, the other in the prime of his, will take center stage Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where both Groupie Doll and Will Take Charge will make their first start since being named division champions three weeks ago.
The Academy Award-winning producer Jim Wilson was watching the Kentucky Derby on a small television screen in his Los Angeles office in 2009, when the last-to-first burst of unlikely winner Mine That Bird seized his senses. For the past three years, Wilson has worked to bring the little gelding’s eternal moment to the big screen, and the result is the feature-length film “50 to 1” that opens in New Mexico on March 21.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The most emotional farewells have already been said, and now, with this absolutely, positively being the last time Groupie Doll will race, Buff Bradley expects the send-off Sunday at Gulfstream Park to be a little more straightforward.
Racing fans won’t have to wait until November to experience a Breeders’ Cup-type program.
The New York Racing Association announced Friday that the June 7 Belmont Stakes Day card will offer purses totaling $8 million and 10 stakes races – six Grade 1’s – including the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, which has been moved from its traditional Memorial Day spot on the calendar. Also, the purse of the Met Mile has been raised to $1.25 million from $750,000.
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