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.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Bob Flynn, who worked for both the New York Racing Association and the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association in a career that spanned 30 years, died Saturday night after a long illness. He was 65.
Flynn worked for NYRA for 18 years, the last six as an assistant racing secretary. In 1994, he joined the New York Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association as its executive director. The NYHBA ultimately became NYTHA.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Maximum Security, the multiple Grade 1 winner who was disqualified from first in the Kentucky Derby in May, will make his next start in the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Dec. 7, trainer Jason Servis said Sunday.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - David Jacobson, the leading trainer on the New York Racing Association circuit for three years who retired from training at the end of 2018, is recovering from a serious illness but said Saturday he would like to train horses again.
Jacobson, 64, said he suffered a perforated bowel that required three surgeries and extensive time in the Intensive Care Unit in a New York City hospital. He is now home and doing extensive therapy.
