MIAMI – One of the stars on Saturday’s Sunshine Millions Preview card was Wildwood’s Beauty, who rallied to a 1 3/4-length decision over Heiressall in the seven-furlong Distaff Preview. The win was the fourth in nine tries this year for the 3-year-old daughter of Kantharos who is trained by Scott Becker for his principal client William Stiritz.
Among those wins was the Sophomore Fillies in March and the Ivanavinalot in May at Tampa Bay Downs.
MIAMI – When As Seen On Tv was originally purchased for $50,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s 2019 April sale and first started training this past summer at Monmouth Park, trainer Kelly Breen thought the Lookin At Lucky colt’s future would be going a distance of ground. But after As Seen On Tv launched his career with two wins and a second in three starts at distances ranging from six to 6 1/2 furlongs, Breen admits he’s been pleasantly surprised at how fast he really is.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In just a few days’ span, John Ortiz said goodbye to one barn favorite and hello to the next one.
Honey Bunny, who gave Ortiz the second graded stakes win of his training career when she captured the Grade 3 Winning Colors in May at Churchill Downs, was sold Thursday at the Keeneland sale. On Saturday, Ortiz reveled in his third graded stakes victory when Mr Dumas, ridden by Joe Rocco Jr., won the Grade 3 Commonwealth Turf at Churchill.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Amalfi Coast recorded her second consecutive stakes win on the E. P. Taylor turf course in the Carotene Stakes over 1 1/8 miles in her most recent start on Oct. 20, and trainer Kevin Attard said the 3-year-old filly would make one more start in 2019.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine Mile winner El Tormenta will get the rest of the season off following his sixth-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2, trainer Gail Cox said.
Cox said El Tormenta would spend the next five to six weeks at owner-breeder Sam-Son Farm’s Ocala, Fla., farm before joining her at Payson Park Training Center to resume training for a 5-year-old campaign.
“He’s doing great,” Cox said. “He actually shipped right to Florida.”
DEL MAR, Calif. – Been Studying Her, who won the Golden State Juvenile for statebreds earlier this month at Santa Anita, will be considered for the Grade 3, $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on turf on Nov. 30, or she could await another stakes race for California-breds, the Soviet Problem, at Los Alamitos on Dec. 14, according to Dan Ward, who saddled her for her last win.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Stakes winner Instagrand, whose scheduled comeback last month was rained out at Belmont Park, has relocated with the rest of trainer Don Chatlos’s runners to Southern California and should be in action soon, based on the fast workout he recorded at Del Mar on Saturday morning.
Instagrand flew through five furlongs in 59.80 seconds, the best time of 13 at the distance. He won the Best Pal Stakes here in 2018 as a 2-year-old.
“He’s ready,” Chatlos said Sunday morning.
DEL MAR, Calif. – After a summer season at Del Mar in which there were zero fatalities in races, two horses were euthanized here on Sunday owing to injuries sustained in races on day three of the fall season, and a third horse injured was scheduled to undergo surgery to save her.
The incidents occurred in races 2, 3, and 6 on the nine-race card, two in races on dirt, both sprints, one in a route race on turf.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1 winner Mind Control and his Grade 1-placed stablemate Joevia both arrived at Belmont Park Sunday morning and will be based there this winter as they prepare for their 4-year-old seasons.
Mind Control has not run since winning the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens by a nose over Hog Creek Hustle at Saratoga on Aug. 24. At 2, Mind Control won the Grade 1 Hopeful at Saratoga. He spent last winter in New York winning the Jerome and the Grade 3 Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct, sandwiched around a second-place finish to Haikal in the Grade 3 Gotham.
