Wed, 05/24/2017 - 14:46

Miss Temple City packing bags for Royal Ascot

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Miss Temple City last raced when she won the Matriarch at Del Mar last December.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Miss Temple City will make her third consecutive trip to Royal Ascot next month, but the race she will run in has yet to be determined, trainer Graham Motion said Wednesday.

Miss Temple City is nominated to both the Group 1 Queen Anne, where she would take on males, on June 20 and the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge, for fillies and mares, on June 21. Miss Temple City finished fourth in the Duke of Cambridge last year. In 2015, Miss Temple City finished fourth in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 14:40

Motion leaves door open to Belmont Stakes for Irish War Cry

Barbara D. Livingston
Trainer Graham Motion said the Belmont Stakes is still a possibility for Irish War Cry.

ELMONT, N.Y. – While Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming and Preakness winner Cloud Computing are expected to bypass the Belmont Stakes, a familiar face from the Triple Crown trail may be re-entering the picture for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 10.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 13:56

Ownership stake sold in Honeymoon-bound Beau Recall

ARCADIA, Calif. – Beau Recall, second in the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes at Santa Anita on May 6 in her graded-stakes debut, has a new owner.

Slam Dunk Racing has sold an ownership stake in the filly to Medallion Racing, a partnership that is under the direction of Taylor Made Farms in Kentucky. The deal was finalized in recent weeks, according to Nick Cosato of Slam Dunk Racing, who did not disclose the terms.

Beau Recall is scheduled to have her next start in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf for 3-year-old fillies here June 17.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 13:40

Big Score headed to Penn Mile

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Big Score became the first stakes winner for Mr. Big after the 3-year-old won the Transylvania Stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Big Score, a stakes winner at Keeneland in April who was third in the Grade 2 American Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on May 6, will start in the Grade 2 Penn Mile at Penn National on June 3, trainer Tim Yakteen said.

Yakteen said the $500,000 purse and the timing of the race were leading factors in the decision to start Big Score in the Penn Mile.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 13:40

Recent six-figure sale buys debut in maiden race

ARCADIA, Calif. – Run Away and Honeymoonz Over were sold about an hour apart at the Barretts March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training at Del Mar this year. They will be side by side in the gate for their first start, which comes in a maiden race at 4 1/2 furlongs Friday at Santa Anita.

Run Away, bought for $325,000 by Kaleem Shah, and Honeymoonz Over, bought for $360,000, are among a field of eight in the day’s second race.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 13:17

Monmouth: McCarthy out indefinitely, Gallardo ready to ride following spill

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Trevor McCarthy dislocated his left shoulder in a spill at Monmouth Park last Sunday.

Trevor McCarthy will be sidelined for an undetermined period of time after dislocating his left shoulder and breaking his right pinkie in a spill at Monmouth Park last Sunday. Antonio Gallardo, who was involved in the same spill, was not seriously hurt and plans to ride this weekend.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 13:11

Karamanos closing in on 2,000 wins

Michael Amoruso
Horacio Karamanos, shown after winning last weekend's Chick Lang Stakes, came into Wednesday eight wins shy of 2,000 for his career.

Jockey Horacio Karamanos, who won three races on the Preakness card last Saturday, had 1,992 career victories as of Wednesday.

Karamanos, a 43-year-old native of Argentina, is having an excellent year, with 62 wins from 268 mounts, a win average of 23 percent. Karamanos is Linda Rice’s first-call rider in Maryland, and the pair has gone 38 for 82 this year, an amazing 46 percent win average.

Last Saturday, Karamanos won an optional-claiming race for Rice, a starter allowance for Mary Eppler, and the Chick Lang Stakes on Recruiting Ready for Horacio De Paz.

Wed, 05/24/2017 - 12:40

Asmussen collects $50,000 bonus for stakes performances on Preakness weekend

Kim Pratt
Terra Promessa, winner of the Allaire duPont Distaff, was one of two stakes winners for trainer Steve Asmussen at Pimlico last weekend.

Trainer Steve Asmussen won the Preakness-weekend trainers’ bonus at Pimlico, taking down $50,000 of the $100,000 prize pool put up by the Maryland Jockey Club.

To be eligible for the bonus, a trainer had to start five horses in stakes at Pimlico last Friday and Saturday. The horses earned points on a 10-7-5-3 basis, with all horses getting an additional point for starting. The top six trainers shared in the bonus.

Mon, 05/22/2017 - 15:40

Morticia might try going a mile again in Wild Applause

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Morticia paid $7.90 in winning the Soaring Softly Stakes at Belmont on Saturday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Morticia, the nose winner of last Saturday’s $100,000 Soaring Softly Stakes at Belmont, could return in the $100,000 Wild Applause Stakes here on June 24, trainer Rusty Arnold said Monday.

Morticia pressed a strong early pace before taking the lead turning for home in the Soaring Softly and held off Lull for the victory, her third in four starts on turf.

Mon, 05/22/2017 - 15:40

No Mo Dough targets Jim Dandy

Barbara D. Livingston
No Mo Dough and jockey Jose Ortiz win the Sir Barton Stakes by 2 3/4 lengths.

ELMONT, N.Y. – No Mo Dough, who rallied from next to last to win the Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico last Saturday, will get a bit of a freshening and point to the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy at Saratoga, trainer Graham Motion said Monday.

No Mo Dough, a son of Uncle Mo, had three races in a 38-day period, two at Keeneland and the Sir Barton. No Mo Dough is not nominated to the Triple Crown, and it would cost $75,000 to supplement him to the Belmont Stakes.