LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As the Ellis Park meet winds down, Kentucky horsemen are marking their condition books for upcoming meets at Kentucky Downs and Churchill Downs.
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Horse racing at state and county fairs used to be commonplace and remains part of the culture in certain regions of the country. But on the East Coast, Timonium is the last of the Mohicans.
The Maryland State Fair in Timonium, which begins a seven-day run Friday, will race three days this week and then Friday through the Labor Day holiday next week. In addition to its annual fair meet, Timonium is home to a year-round offtrack betting parlor and is the site of three Fasig-Tipton horse sales.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Wonder Gadot has won five races from 13 starts. Six of her eight losses have come by less than a length. In her two most recent victories, both against Canadian-bred males, she has won by a combined 10 1/2 lengths.
So, what’s changed? Is it the blinkers that she has worn in each of her last two starts? Trainer Mark Casse doesn’t think so. Is it the restricted company she’s been beating in the first two legs of Canada’s Triple Crown? Perhaps.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The jockey and trainer races are heating up at the halfway point of the 133-day Woodbine meet.
Even though he missed the first few weeks of the meet due to a suspension, Eurico Da Silva recently blew by Rafael Hernandez to take the lead in the rider standings by a 107-100 margin through last Sunday. Patrick Husbands ranks third with 60 wins. Rounding out the top five are Gary Boulanger with 56 and Luis Contreras with 52.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Game Winner, a Candy Ride colt who won a six-furlong maiden race for 2-year-olds in his debut Saturday at Del Mar, will be aimed for races at longer distances and stakes, according to his trainer, Bob Baffert.
“He’s a nice horse,” Baffert said. “We knew he’d run well, but we didn’t think he’d show that much speed. He came out of it well. He wants to go further. We’ll find something for him. He’ll be nominated everywhere.”
DEL MAR, Calif. – Splashy Kisses, who rolled to victory in her second start Saturday at Del Mar, could return in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante going seven furlongs Sept. 1 but is more likely to await the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes going 1 1/16 miles on Sept. 29 at Santa Anita, trainer Doug O’Neill said.
Splashy Kisses drew the rail and was eighth in her debut going five furlongs when facing the highly regarded Brill on opening day, July 18. She won going six furlongs Saturday.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Ask Alfredo Marquez how he’s doing and you’ll always get the same response from the sunny, upbeat trainer: “Super excellent. And getting better.”
That’s certainly true this summer at Del Mar. Marquez, 70, by choice limits his barn to just seven horses, but they have produced, with four wins from a mere eight starters.
“Dream of a lifetime,” he said of his Del Mar strike rate. “It’s unreal. Still can’t believe it.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Robertino Diodoro registered the 2,000th win of his training career when sending out Benefactor ($7.70) to capture the first race on Monday’s card at Saratoga.
Diodoro, 44, saddled his first winner in 1995. A relative newcomer to the New York circuit, Diodoro has won 30 races at NYRA tracks this season. Benefactor was his fifth winner of the current meet, surpassing his total of three victories during the 2017 Saratoga session.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After winning the race the last two years, trainer Bob Baffert won’t have a runner in this year’s Travers Stakes, but he certainly will have a significant player in one of Saturday’s undercard races.
Baffert is shipping champion 3-year-old filly Abel Tasman to Saratoga for Saturday’s Grade 1, $700,000 Personal Ensign Stakes, where she will square off again with Elate in a rematch of last summer’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks, won narrowly by Abel Tasman.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert will be on the banquet circuit of sorts this week, being inducted into two different halls of fame.
On Wednesday, Baffert will be inducted in the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, along with, among others, Thoroughbred owner and breeder Ken Ramsey. That ceremony will be held at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.