A barn at Laurel Park has been placed under quarantine after a horse previously stabled in the barn tested positive on a nasal swab for equine herpesvirus, a highly contagious disease, according to the parent company of the track.
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Purses for overnight races offered during the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga will receive increases between $10,000 to $13,000 compared to what will be offered at the Belmont at Aqueduct spring meet, according to the New York Racing Association.
Open maiden special weights will get a purse increase of $10,000 to $100,000, while New York-bred maiden special weights will get a $10,000 bump to $85,000.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Tamara, the Beholder filly who scored a dazzling victory in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante before misfiring as the favorite in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, is scheduled to work three furlongs this week and could be ready for a comeback in early June.
“She’s doing great,” trainer Richard Mandella said Monday. “She’s had two little quarters; she’s going to go three-eighths this week.” Tamara worked a quarter-mile April 4 in 25.20 seconds, and April 10 in 23.80.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Subsanador, a Group 1 in Argentina and runner-up by a head in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap in his second United States start March 3, has been sold privately and moved from trainer John Sadler to Richard Mandella. Both trainers confirmed the move on Monday.
Wathnan Racing purchased Subsanador, a 5-year-old Argentina-bred sired by Fortify. Wathnan Racing is the stable name of Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. After extended negotiations with previous owner Stud Facundito, Subsanador moved last week from Sadler to Mandella.
There are few things acclaimed international jockey Frankie Dettori hasn’t accomplished in his career. He checked one off the list Saturday at Keeneland and is hoping for another in a few weeks at Churchill Downs.
Dettori won his first graded stakes race at Keeneland on Saturday, piloting Beaute Cachee to a front-running 25-1 upset in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley. Dettori’s only previous stakes win at Keeneland, at any level, came when he was in town for the 2015 Breeders’ Cup and rode Sheikh of Sheikhs to a win in the Juvenile Dirt Sprint on the undercard.
The late-blooming Encino still has room for development as he eyes the spring classics, trainer Brad Cox and jockey Florent Geroux both said following the colt’s win in the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland.
Encino, who has shipped from Keeneland to Cox’s base at Churchill Downs, set the pace in the Lexington and turned back The Wine Steward for a three-quarter-length win. The Godolphin homebred was making just his fourth career start, first on dirt, and first in a graded stakes race.
Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, will showcase most of its stakes races over four key cards during the track’s 41-date meet that opens Thursday night. The season will run through July 14.
The richest of the cards will be Lone Star Million Day, when six stakes worth a total of $1.2 million will be run on May 27. The program is anchored by the Grade 3, $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile and includes the $300,000 Texas Derby.
Kentucky Derby probable Just Steel emerged from a Thursday work at Oaklawn Park in good order and was scheduled to ship Saturday to Churchill Downs, according to his trainer, D. Wayne Lukas.
Just Steel, who ranks 12th in points for the Kentucky Derby following his runner-up finish in the Arkansas Derby on March 30, had his first work out of that race Thursday. He went five-eighths on a track rated muddy in 1:00.80.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Two-year-olds will ultimately be the main focus at Gulfstream Park as the spring and summer meets progress, and if Friday’s first baby race of the season is any indication, it should be a good year for locally based juveniles.
With jockey Patrick Husbands in town for the occasion, Mensa, a son of Complexity, sprinted right to the front and was in control throughout, drawing away to a convincing three-length victory over Unchained Elaine with the 3-5 Delightful Flame finishing a well-beaten sixth following a poor start.