Multiple Grade 1 winner Divisidero has returned to training at Fair Hill in northern Maryland with Kelly Rubley, who has become the primary trainer for Divisidero’s owner, the Gunpowder Farms LLC of Tom Keithley.
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X Y Jet stamped his ticket to Dubai in winning the $100,000 Pelican Stakes on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.
Trainer Jorge Navarro said by phone Saturday night before returning to the Miami area that X Y Jet came out of his seven-length victory in the six-furlong Pelican in perfect shape and now will point toward the $2 million Golden Shaheen on March 31.
ARCADIA, Calif. - A filly starting in California for the first time and a jockey who began riding on this circuit only last year reached milestone wins in Saturday’s Grade 2 Buena Vista Stakes at Santa Anita.
Fault, who joined trainer Phil D’Amato’s stable last month, rallied on the rail to win the $201,380 Buena Vista Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf, giving jockey Geovanni Franco his first stakes win in California on a day he won three consecutive races.
Paved won the El Camino Real Derby on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields in her first start against the boys and on synthetic. She will again face fillies in her next start, but will be considered for another first: Paved might try dirt in the Grade 1, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks on April 7, trainer Michael McCarthy said Sunday morning at Santa Anita.
McCarthy said Paved also would be nominated to the Grade 3, $150,000 Providencia Stakes, also on April 7 at Santa Anita.
NEW ORLEANS – Bravazo and Snapper Sinclair, longshots both, were separated by a short nose Saturday in the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds, and they probably will meet again here March 24 in the $1 million Louisiana Derby.
Also likely for the Louisiana Derby is Risen Star third-place finisher Noble Indy, but plans are fluid for Instilled Regard, who was fourth as the 7-5 favorite.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Steve Asmussen has three starters in the Southwest, including a gray son of Tapit invading from Fair Grounds.
Last year, an Asmussen trainee who fit that profile was Creator, who used his late run to win the Arkansas Derby and Belmont Stakes. This year, that prospect is Zing Zang.
“By pedigree, color and style, we’re hoping he’s Creator,” said Asmussen, who trains Zing Zang for Jackpot Farm.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The 3-year-old action at Oaklawn on Monday does not stop with the running of the Grade 3, $500,000 Southwest Stakes. It carries over into the final race on the card, when Zulfikhar, New York Central, and Transgress meet in an optional $62,500 claiming race over 1 1/16 miles.
It’s the sort of race that could produce starters for next month’s Rebel at Oaklawn.
If the road to the March 24 Louisiana Derby were a double-elimination tournament, the featured eighth race Monday at Fair Grounds would be a game in the losers’ bracket.
While the top 3-year-old prospects to race at Fair Grounds were set to get their game on Saturday in the Risen Star Stakes, Monday’s first-level allowance race, carded for one mile and 70 yards on dirt, is for sophomores not quite up to Risen Star snuff. Make no mistake, though, there are promising horses among the nine entrants.
George R. “Rusty” Arnold, the Kentucky-based trainer, will have to disperse his horses during a 90-day suspension recently handed down by Kentucky’s stewards for two positives for the banned drug ractopamine dating from 2016, according to the stewards’ ruling and the trainer.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mourinho may be making his first start on a wet track Monday, when he will be the probable favorite in the Grade 3, $500,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
“The only time he gets his feet wet is on the wash rack,” joked his Southern California-based trainer, Bob Baffert.