Chasing Liberty won the $100,000 Bob Bork Texas Turf Mile on the undercard of the Houston Ladies Classic last Saturday. It was his third stakes win following the National Thoroughbred League Juvenile Sprint on Sept. 1 at Kentucky Downs and the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Stakes in his prior start Nov. 1 at Del Mar. Manny Franco was aboard for the Bob Bork.
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Recharge is recharging at her base of Sam Houston Race Park following her win in the track’s Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic last Saturday.
“That was significant,” said trainer Steve Asmussen. “We had targeted that – got the [prep] race in at Houston, let them come to her.
“We’ll graze her and pet on her for a little while now.”
Skelly, the $1.7 million earner who was freshened following an uncharacteristic 10th-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, is now back in training, according to trainer Steve Asmussen.
“He just came back in,” Asmussen said. “He’s at the Fair Grounds.”
Skelly, now 6, is a six-time stakes winner for Red Lane Thoroughbreds.
Tiztastic is no stranger to winning rich races, with more than $900,000 in earnings just six starts into his career. It’s a bankroll that could grow substantially later this month, as he is under serious consideration for the Grade 2, $1.25 million Rebel Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Oaklawn Park on Feb. 22.
Freshly crowned Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna got a little more serious prepping for her eagerly awaited 4-year-old debut, working four furlongs in 47.18 seconds shortly after the renovation break here Friday.
Going in company with her Grade 2-placed stablemate Common Defense, Thorpedo Anna posted a 23.06 opening quarter split and galloped out five-eighths in 1:00.59, holding a slight edge to the wire while going along very easily throughout.
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The Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif., will cease operating as a training center on March 25, according to a statement issued Thursday by the California Authority of Racing Fairs, a decision that Southern California racing officials said will lead to higher purses on that circuit in the near future.
Jockey Kazushi Kimura was scheduled to undergo outpatient surgery in Southern California on Thursday to stabilize a leg injury sustained in a starting gate incident at Santa Anita on Jan. 16.
Kimura’s agent, Brian Beach, said on Wednesday that the recovery time is expected to be 30 to 45 days.
“He has a lower leg fracture that needs to be addressed,” Beach said. “It’s something the doctor said would heal faster if they put a screw in it. It would be the better option.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita has opened a library in the stable area for backstretch employees, dedicating the space in memory of Eddie Truman, a retired trainer who died in December.
The Eddie Truman Library will be based in a backstretch recreation center and will include books donated by Truman. The library will include titles in English and Spanish and feature educational materials as well as works of fiction and non-fiction, according to a statement released last weekend by Santa Anita.
Mrs. Astor, the winner of consecutive Grade 3 stakes at Del Mar and Santa Anita in the final months of 2024, will have her 2025 debut in another Grade 3, the $100,000 Santa Ana Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Santa Anita on March 15.
Trainer Jonathan Thomas said on Thursday that the Santa Ana will be a prep race for a start at the Keeneland April meeting for the 4-year-old Mrs. Astor, who is owned by George Strawbridge’s Augustin Stable.
Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., has canceled racing on Thursday and moved the program as drawn to Monday due to a forecast for severe weather, according to a text notice from the track. The area was under a flood watch Wednesday afternoon, with rains in the forecast through the night and into Thursday.
Oaklawn also canceled training on Thursday.
The card Thursday was a makeup card because a snowstorm cost Oaklawn a weekend of racing in early January.
Racing is scheduled to resume Friday.