Wed, 09/19/2018 - 15:20

Blamed moves to New York, Mott

Emily Shields
Blamed paid $2.80 in winning the Sunland Park Oaks on Sunday.

Blamed, a winner of her last five starts including the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks, is now based in New York with trainer Bill Mott.

Blamed began her career in New Mexico with trainer Joel Marr. She’s won 5 of 6 starts. Following her 6 1/2-length win in the Sunland Park Oaks in March, she traveled to Churchill for the Kentucky Oaks. Blamed was injured in her final work for the race and was rehabbed in Kentucky. She was later transferred to Mott.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 15:16

Oklahoma Derby, Remington Oaks getting them from all over

Barbara D. Livingston
Sea Foam (7) returned $5.60 as the favorite in Friday's Albany Stakes.

The Oklahoma Derby could draw shippers from Southern California, Kentucky, and New York when the Grade 3, $400,000 race runs Sept. 30 at Remington Park. It will anchor a card of 10 stakes that includes the Grade 3, $200,000 Remington Park Oaks.

Entries for the program will be taken Thursday, Sept. 27. First post for the special Sunday afternoon card is 3 p.m. Central.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 14:50

True Timber likely to go in Bold Ruler Handicap

Barbara D. Livingston
True Timber has won consecutive allowance races for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin.

ELMONT, N.Y. – True Timber, who won a second straight allowance race on Sunday, likely will make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Bold Ruler Handicap at Belmont Park on Oct. 27, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.

True Timber chased the pacesetting Eight Town from the start in the Sunday allowance, and was able to collar that one in deep stretch to win by a half-length. True Timber had won a first-level allowance race here in June before sustaining a cut on a leg that precipitated a layoff.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 14:50

Delacour barn looks live in Kelso, Noble Damsel

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No Dozing will make his turf debut in Sunday's English Channel Stakes at Belmont Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Arnaud Delacour will have live chances in both of Belmont Park’s graded stakes Saturday when he sends out No Dozing in the Grade 2, $300,000 Kelso Handicap at a mile on dirt and Hawksmoor in the Grade 3, $200,000 Noble Damsel at a mile on turf.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 14:36

Elate to miss Beldame Stakes due to leg inflammation

Barbara D. Livingston
Elate has run only once in 2018, winning the Delaware Handicap on July 14 in a race that earned her a 92 Beyer Figure.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Elate will miss the Grade 1, $400,000 Beldame at Belmont Park on Oct. 6 due to inflammation in and around the splint bone in her right foreleg, trainer Bill Mott said Wednesday.

Mott said he has not ruled out training Elate up to the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

“The best-case scenario is hope to be back going by the first of October,” Mott said. “If that’s the case, then she will have missed a couple of weeks of training. We’ll see what happens.”

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 14:10

Galilean among six likely for Barretts Juvenile

CYPRESS, Calif. – Galilean, an unraced Uncle Mo colt purchased for $600,000 at the Barretts April sale of 2-year-olds in training, is one of six probable starters in Saturday’s $100,000 Barretts Juvenile at Los Alamitos.

The Barretts Juvenile, restricted to 2-year-olds who were offered at an auction conducted by Barretts, is the final stakes of the Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Los Alamitos, which ends on Sunday.

Galilean is owned by West Point Thoroughbreds and trained by Jerry Hollendorfer.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 14:06

Dabster possible for Marathon on Breeders' Cup card

Benoit Photo
Dabster wins the Los Alamitos Special by two lengths on Sunday.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Dabster, who has won consecutive stakes at Del Mar and Los Alamitos in the last month, is a candidate for the Grade 2 Marathon at Churchill Downs on Nov. 2, trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday.

Dabster won the $75,000 Harry Brubaker Stakes at a mile at Del Mar on Aug. 22 and the $100,000 Los Alamitos Special at 1 1/4 miles last Sunday. The $200,000 Marathon is run at 1 3/4 miles on dirt on Breeders’ Cup Friday.

“It sounds like a good idea,” Baffert said.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 14:06

McCarthy stable gearing up for Santa Anita's opening weekend

Shane Micheli/Vassar Photography
The Lieutenant, a half-brother to Triple Crown aspirant Justify, posted a one-length victory in Monday's All American Stakes.

The Del Mar summer meeting ended more than two weeks ago, just as trainer Michael McCarthy’s stable was showing strength. He won seven races at the 36-day meeting, finishing tied for 10th in the trainers’ standings.

McCarthy won three fewer races this summer at Del Mar than he did in 2017 but finished the recent meeting with five wins from his last 20 runners in the final month of the season.

“We started off a little quiet,” he said. “We won better races and more quality races this summer. That’s the objective.”

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 13:20

Sippin Fire, Gutierrez main attractions Sunday

Reed Palmer Photography/Emerald Downs
Rocco Bowen has won four stakes aboard Sippin Fire at the current Emerald Downs meet, most recently the Washington Cup Sophomore on Aug. 26.

Sippin Fire will be the star of the show Sunday, the final day of racing this year at Emerald Downs. The 3-year-old gelding by Harbor the Gold will be gunning for his fifth stakes win at the meet in the $100,000 Getaway Stakes for 3-year-olds.

If he is victorious in the 1 1/16-mile Getaway Stakes, he would tie Noosa Beach for the record of most stakes win in a single meet at Emerald.

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 13:06

Farrell might turn back for Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint

Barbara D. Livingston
Farrell paid $20.20 to win in the Shuvee Stakes at Saratoga on Sunday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Trainer Wayne Catalano is contemplating a turnback in distance for his stable star Farrell, the speedy 4-year-old filly who has run at a mile or longer for most of her 18-race career. Catalano said the seven-furlong Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint here Nov. 3 is under consideration for her.

“I’m still not sure what we’ll do,” Catalano said Wednesday. “We might prep at Belmont, maybe Santa Anita, maybe just wait for the Breeders’ Cup.”