ARCADIA, Calif. – The top turf filly Californiagoldrush sustained a knee injury while finishing seventh as the favorite in the Grade 1 American Oaks on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita and will be sidelined for an indefinite period, trainer Neil Drysdale said Tuesday morning.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. -- Manny Franco rode three winners on Monday’s eight-race card at Aqueduct, closing out a year in which he led all jockeys in wins on the New York Racing Association circuit with 244. It was his first NYRA single-year riding title.
Chad Brown won his fourth NYRA year-end trainer’s title with 154 wins while Michael Dubb won his seventh owner’s title in the last nine years with 68 victories.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With a little better racing luck at Gulfstream Park over the past weekend, trainer Jimmy Jerkens might have had a lot to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately, the racing gods were not on his side, as Holy Helena finished a troubled second in Saturday’s Via Borghese Stakes, and Illudere was third as the even-money favorite after an eventful trip in Sunday’s allowance feature.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Tyler Gaffalione rode the 1,000th winner of his career Sunday, winning the seventh race aboard first-time starter Mission from Elle. The victory was the second on the day for Gaffalione, 24, who rode his first career winner, Holdin Bullets, at Gulfstream Park on Sept. 7, 2014.
Gaffalione, the 2015 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice, won the 2018 summer meet riding title here as well as the fall jockey championships at both Keeneland and Churchill Downs.
Mission from Elle was Gaffalione’s 253rd winner in 2018.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Edgard Zayas will be sidelined a minimum of two months after suffering a broken right femur when his horse, Killer Kitten, fell during Sunday’s fifth race.
Zayas underwent successful surgery Monday morning to repair his injured leg, according to his agent, Tito Fuentes.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Accelerate has launched the final month of his career in excellent form.
The nation’s leading older male of 2018, Accelerate worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 at Santa Anita on Saturday in preparation for the $9 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 26. It will be his last race before he is sent to stud in Kentucky in February.
Trainer John Sadler described Accelerate’s condition Sunday as “bright and great.”
The New York Racing Association will again offer two bonus programs for horses who ship in from Florida and Arkansas and race at Aqueduct or Belmont in spring 2019.
The owner of a horse who starts at Aqueduct from March 8 through March 31 that made its previous start at Gulfstream Park or Tampa Bay Downs will receive a $2,000 credit to cover shipping expenses. That credit becomes $1,500 if a horse that made its previous start at Tampa or Gulfstream runs at Aqueduct between April 5 through 20. Stakes races are excluded from the shipping credit.
Espresso Shot, winner of Saturday’s $100,000 East View Stakes for New York-bred juvenile fillies, earned herself a little R & R stint in South Florida but will most likely return to New York for the $250,000 Busher Invitational at Aqueduct on March 9.
The Busher, like the East View, is a one-turn-mile race. The Busher does offer qualifying points to the Kentucky Oaks to be run May 3 at Churchill Downs.
If it’s not broke, don’t break it.
That’s the ideology trainer John Kimmel plans to utilize with Mr. Buff, who will likely make his next start in the $100,000 Jazil Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 26. The Jazil is a two-turn, 1 1/8-mile race run over Aqueduct’s main track. Mr. Buff has won three consecutive two-turn, 1 1/8-mile races run over Aqueduct’s main track, including Saturday’s $100,000 Alex M. Robb Stakes. Overall, he is 4 for 4 in 1 1/8-mile races run around two turns.