ARCADIA, Calif. – What a View, who has won four stakes since the start of 2016, will be given a summer break after finishing seventh in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita on June 3.
Trainer Kenny Black said last weekend that What a View will miss the Del Mar summer meeting that begins on July 19.
“He’s a better horse on this grass,” Black said in reference to Santa Anita’s turf course.
Skye Diamonds was within a half-length of the multiple stakes winner Vale Dori at the finish of the Grade 3 Adoration Stakes at Santa Anita on May 7. Since that second-place finish, trainer Bill Spawr has been delighted with the way Skye Diamonds has recovered from that race and progressed through the spring.
“She acts better,” Spawr said on Monday. “She’s put on weight, she’s happier, eats more.
“She finishes stronger, has more muscle tone – everything.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Jose Pinchin was conspicuously absent from the winner’s circle following Three Rules’s hard-fought neck victory over Mo Cash in Saturday’s Grade 3 Carry Back Stakes – especially since the race marked the speedy 3-year-old’s first graded-stakes win.
But Pinchin had a good excuse for missing the milestone: He was in Jamaica attending his nephew’s wedding.
“I actually watched the race as the bride and groom were coming down the aisle,” Pinchin said, “so I couldn’t do any cheering or celebrate until after the wedding had ended.”
Tigerstorm and Mr. Al’s Gal will bring win streaks into Saturday night’s Louisiana Legends program at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas. The card features six divisional stakes races for Louisiana-breds, each worth $100,000.
Tigerstorm will be shooting for his fourth straight win when he starts in the Cheval. The one-mile race for 3-year-olds drew a field of 10. Tigerstorm will be making his two-turn debut off a win at seven furlongs in the $50,000 Lafayette on June 3 at Evangeline.
Imperial Hint emerged in great shape from his very convincing victory in Saturday’s Grade 3 Smile Sprint, trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. said as he awaited his star’s return to Parx Racing on Monday.
The win was the fourth in a row, all by open lengths, for Imperial Hint and guaranteed him a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
“He is on a flight right now to New York, then vans here later this afternoon,” Carvajal said from his Parx headquarters.
More than six months have passed since Los Alamitos hosted a Thoroughbred meeting.
During that memorable two-week season last December, Mastery and Abel Tasman won Grade 1 races for 2-year-olds and 2016 Horse of the Year California Chrome won a made-for-him stakes in his second-to-last start and final win.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine will add a second turf course for the 2019 season.
The new turf course will take the place of the seven-furlong harness track. Woodbine announced earlier this month that it will commit $10 million for improvements to Mohawk Racetrack in Campbellville, Ontario, in order to move harness racing there full time next spring. Following the conclusion of the harness meet at Woodbine next April, construction will begin on the new inner turf course.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine handled a record $13,560,678 over the 13-race Queen’s Plate card on Sunday afternoon.
The total handle on the Queen’s Plate card bested last year’s handle of $11,839,883, which was the previous Queen’s Plate-day record. Woodbine’s track record handle of $67,738,890 was set when the track hosted the Breeders’ Cup in 1996.
Handle on the Queen’s Plate itself was $3.72 million, up 10 percent from last year.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Peter Miller has been fined $1,250 for failing to report Fly to Mars was racing as a gelding for the first time when the 3-year-old won the 11th race at Santa Anita on June 10.
The penalty was announced in a ruling issued by Santa Anita stewards Friday. The ruling noted this was the third instance of such an infraction for Miller.
On June 10, the public was not informed Fly to Mars was a gelding until approximately 20 minutes before post time, after he was inspected in the receiving barn where horses are kept before going to the paddock.
