ARCADIA, Calif. – Owner Mick Ruis, who has campaigned Grade 1 winners Bolt d’Oro and Union Strike, said Friday that he has moved the majority of his stable to Keeneland for that track’s April meeting and plans to resume racing in California later in the spring.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – In the next 10 days jockey Tyler Baze will be on the go, riding at tracks in Arkansas, New Mexico, and California. Baze has yet to form a plan for the remainder of April.
This week, Baze was booked on mounts at Oaklawn Park on Friday and Saturday, and at Sunland Park on Sunday. Next week, Baze will be at his California base to ride at Santa Anita. The track is scheduled to reopen on Friday following an investigation into a series of equine fatalities earlier this year. Santa Anita has not raced since March 3.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Synthesis, a well-beaten fourth in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 10, was sold privately earlier this week and will start in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 6, new trainer George Papaprodromou said Friday.
Synthesis, who has one win in nine starts, was bought by Rustin Kretz, John Decker, and Jay Selby from Big Chief Racing, Madaket Stables, Rocker O Ranch, and trainer Keith Desormeaux. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, Papaprodromou said.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After briefly considering training Espresso Shot up to the Kentucky Oaks, her connections have decided to run the New York-bred 3-year-old filly in the Grade, 2, $300,000 Gazelle Stakes at Aqueduct on April 6.
The Gazelle, like the Kentucky Oaks, is run at 1 1/8 miles around two turns. Espresso Shot has won two straight one-turn mile stakes, including the Busher Stakes on March 9.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mind Control is under consideration for both the Wood Memorial and the Bay Shore Stakes on the April 6 card, trainer Gregg Sacco said Friday.
The Bay Shore is run at seven furlongs.
Mind Control won the Grade 1 Hopeful at seven furlongs last summer and the Jerome Stakes going a one-turn mile here on New Year’s Day. Most recently, Mind Control finished second, beaten one length, in the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes, also at a one-turn mile, on March 9.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After trainer Jason Servis runs Maximum Security in next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, he will test the Triple Crown trail waters with two other 3-year-olds in the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 6.
Servis is pointing recent Gulfstream allowance winner Final Jeopardy and recent Aqueduct maiden winner Grumps Little Tots to the Wood, Aqueduct’s fourth and final stakes for 3-year-olds that offers qualifying points to the May 4 Kentucky Derby.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Xpressbet and Gulfstream Park hosted six very special guests on Wednesday – members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces who, along with their spouses, were participating in a weeklong retreat sponsored by Operation Healing Forces, a nonprofit helping Special Ops veterans and their families transition back into civilian life.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Hidden Scroll and Bourbon War, quite possibly the two favorites for the 68th Florida Derby, both had their final prerace breeze Friday in preparation for the long-standing Gulfstream Park showcase.
Bourbon War went a half-mile in 49.80 seconds at Gulfstream Park, and Hidden Scroll went five furlongs in 1:02.40 in company at Payson Park. They’re among a prospective lineup of at least seven 3-year-olds set to clash in the Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby, the most important of seven stakes here next Saturday.
Something Awesome breezed a half-mile at Laurel Park last Saturday and is gearing up for the Grade 2, $1 million Charles Town Classic on April 20. The breeze was the first for Something Awesome since he finished 10th a month earlier in the Grade 3 General George.
In 1997, Robert Manfuso bought a Pleasant Tap filly for $40,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale and turned her over to trainer Katie Voss. That purchase is still paying dividends today.
The filly, Waltz, won a maiden race and two allowance races in Maryland and closed out her 3-year-old season with close third-place finishes in the Dowery Stakes and Grade 2 Cotillion at Philadelphia Park.
“She was going to be a good filly at 4 but came down with this weird problem – a leaky tendon sheath – that we could never straighten out,” Voss said.