SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When Weekend Hideaway goes postward as one of the choices in Friday’s Tale of the Cat Stakes, it will mark the sixth consecutive summer that the veteran has competed at Saratoga.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Green Mask earned his second consecutive 110 Beyer Speed Figure for his victory in Sunday’s $250,000 Troy Handicap at Saratoga and will now target one more race before the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Nov. 4.
Green Mask won the Troy by 1 1/2 lengths and covered 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:00.49, just 0.03 seconds off Lady Shipman’s course record. Green Mask also earned a 110 Beyer when he won the Highlander Stakes at Woodbine on July 2.
Trainer Brad Cox said Green Mask came out of the race in good order.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Speed is always dangerous in racing, more so in handicap races if the speed horse gets significant weight from the competition.
Those variables could be in play Saturday when the speedy Sassy Little Lila takes on the boys in the Grade 1, $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap going a mile at Saratoga.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Abel Tasman, the nation’s leading 3-year-old filly, worked three furlongs in 36.80 seconds Monday under jockey Martin Garcia as Baffert ponders her next start, which could be predicated on what Jerry Hollendorfer does with Songbird.
“I have a lot of options. I don’t have to decide until a week before,” Baffert said.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Two of the top contenders for the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic turned in workouts at Del Mar on Monday that indicated both are coming up to the Aug. 19 race in ideal condition.
Accelerate, the upset winner over Arrogate in the San Diego Handicap in his last start, worked an easy five furlongs in 1:01.20 under jockey Victor Espinoza. About 75 minutes later, Collected continued his dazzling series of drills here with a one-mile work in 1:37.40 under Martin Garcia.
DEL MAR, Calif. – It’s rare to see a horse win by 17 1/2 lengths going just 5 1/2 furlongs, and rarer still to see a horse win a maiden-claiming race at Canterbury Park and then show up at Del Mar, but the filly Vallestina, who runs in race 6 on Wednesday, ticks both of those boxes.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Win the Space, who was second and third in Grade 1 races last year, may run out of time preparing for the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 19.
Unraced since being eased in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita last November, Win the Space has worked steadily in recent weeks, but trainer George Papaprodromou said the $1 million Pacific Classic may be too demanding for a first race of the season.
“I don’t know if we’ll be ready,” Papaprodromou said Sunday.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Jockey Mike Smith, who turns 52 on Thursday, will be honored with the 2017 Laffit Pincay Jr. Award for meritorious service to racing in a ceremony at Del Mar on Aug. 20.
Pincay will present the award to Smith. A fundraiser honoring Smith on behalf of the Winners Foundation will be held at Del Mar on Aug. 19.
Through Sunday, Smith was the third-leading rider in the nation in mount earnings with more than $14.9 million. This year, the 2016 champions Arrogate and Songbird have been two of his leading mounts.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The winners in the first round of Florida Sire Stakes events for juveniles can be expected to face some of the same horses who chased them home Saturday at Gulfstream.
Go Astray was a 10-1 winner of the fillies division, the $100,000 Desert Vixen, while the heavily favored runner-up, Awesome Mass, was compromised after grabbing a front quarter at the start of the six-furlong race.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gunnevera was assigned an 86 Beyer Speed Figure for his five-length victory Sunday in the Tangelo Stakes at Gulfstream Park, although the number seems largely irrelevant given that it came in what was little more than a paid public workout against four overmatched 3-year-olds.
What is more important is that the 1 1/16-mile Tangelo served its purpose as a bridge between the May 20 Preakness, in which Gunnevera ran fifth, and the Aug. 26 Travers at Saratoga, a divisional showdown in which the chestnut colt will be one of a multitude of viable contenders.