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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Terra Promessa, the 7 1/2-length winner of the Grade 3 Allaire duPont Distaff last Friday at Pimlico, will be kept in two-turn races, meaning she’ll skip the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes Day and likely target Saratoga.
The two opportunities for Terra Promessa at Saratoga are the Grade 3, $200,000 Shuvee on July 30 and the Grade 1, $700,000 Personal Ensign on Aug. 26. Both races are run at 1 1/8 miles around two turns.
