Handle on races held at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., during the track’s 52-day summer meet slid significantly on a per-race basis, according to data released by the track on Sunday, the end of the meet.
The Rainbow 6 will have a jackpot carryover of $120,801 into Thursday’s card at Gulfstream.
The sequence for the 20-cent bet starts in the fourth race, a maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies at five-eighths on the grass. The probable favorite is Kintra for trainer Jonathan Thomas. There is a first post of 2 p.m. Eastern.
Jockey Miguel Vasquez, who was off his mounts Sunday at Gulfstream after being thrown during a race the day before, will return to action Thursday, according to his agent, Peter Wright.
Vasquez was taken to a local hospital for X-rays Saturday after he was thrown from Surprise Wedding when she clipped heels in the Sheer Drama Stakes. He was released from the hospital Saturday night, Wright said.
Following his dominant win in last Friday’s $75,000 Mo Exception at GulfstreamPark, Deland has races at Churchill Downs and Gulfstream among his options over the next several months.
Trainer Victor Barboza Jr. said possible spots for Deland include the Grade 2, $200,000 Marathon Stakes at 1 3/4 miles on Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs and the $200,000 Sunshine Millions Classic at 1 1/8 miles at Gulfstream, probably in January. The date of the Sunshine Millions has not been set, but it was run Jan. 20 this year.
In a preemptive move so one of Laurel Park's best racing programs of the year isn’t adversely affected by Hurricane Florence, track management on Monday moved its seven De Francis Dash Day stakes back from this Saturday to Sept. 22.
Florence, which was upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 miles per hour late Monday morning, is forecast to come ashore late Thursday or early Friday in the Carolinas and then worked its way inland and north, bringing poor weather to Maryland.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A terrific weekend of turf racing is on tap at Woodbine, with four Grade 1 races scheduled over Saturday and Sunday, headlined by Saturday’s Grade 1, $800,000 Woodbine Mile.
As of Monday morning, nine horses were likely to enter the starting gate for the Woodbine Mile, led by multiple Grade 1 winner Divisidero.
Jockey Kendrick Carmouche underwent successful surgery Sunday night at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after suffering a hairline fracture of his right femur in a spill that occurred Saturday in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint.
Carmouche, based in New York, is expected to be sidelined at least four months, according to his agent, Kevin Bubser.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Instagrand, the flashy 2-year-old graded stakes winner who skipped the Del Mar Futurity one week ago, worked a half-mile Monday morning at Santa Anita as he prepares to resume his campaign for owner Larry Best and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
CYPRESS, Calif. – A training accident in 2017 led to a career change for John Cisneros, who has his first starter as a trainer at Los Alamitos on Thursday.
Cisneros will run the 2-year-old filly Cause Why in a maiden special weight for California-breds at 5 1/2 furlongs, one of two horses he has based at the track. Both runners are owned by Huntertown Farm, the stable name of breeder Heinz Steinmann and his extended family.
In 2017, Cisneros, 61, sustained injuries in a fall during morning training and was told by doctors to stay out of the saddle.