NEW ORLEANS – The good news is that trainer Joe Sharp and owner Brad Grady have two promising 3-year-olds this winter. The bad news is that the two horses, Cool Arrow and Girvin, are stabled at the Evangeline Downs Training Center in Lafayette, La., where Sharp keeps horses who don’t fit into his allotted Fair Grounds stalls.
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NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Wayne Catalano left the door open to taking Farrell out of the Silverbulletday Stakes even after entering the filly Friday, but after Farrell worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 on Sunday, Catalano said she would indeed start Saturday in the $150,000 Silverbulletday.
“She worked by herself, and she worked very well,” Catalano said. “It looks like we’re running.”
NEW ORLEANS – While schooling I’m a Chatterbox in the Fair Grounds paddock Sunday, trainer Larry Jones confirmed that the multiple Grade 1-winning mare will make her turf debut Saturday in the $75,000 Marie Krantz Memorial Stakes here.
I’m a Chatterbox’s first start on grass has been a long time coming, and has come about by accident.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn will put the spotlight on fillies and mares Thursday in the eighth race, an optional $35,000 claimer over six furlongs. Modify and Zaphical both appear to be leading contenders after finishing second and third to Finley’sluckycharm in a second-level allowance in September at Churchill Downs.
Finley’sluckycharm has since gone on to win two more races, including the Dream Supreme at Churchill. Following the stakes, she was a close second in the Grade 1 La Brea at Santa Anita in her most recent start Dec. 26.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Rockshaw is a candidate for the 3-year-old sprint stakes at Oaklawn Park after his win in a Saturday allowance, trainer Ron Moquett said. The horse earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 82 for his first-level allowance score, a race in which he covered 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:04.31.
The initial race for Rockshaw’s division is the $125,000 Gazebo on March 4. The other is the $150,000 Carousel on April 13.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Ron Moquett brought Eclipse Award finalist Jose Ortiz to town to ride opening weekend at Oaklawn Park, and the two had a memorable run Saturday and Sunday. The New York-based Ortiz won his first local race Saturday with the promising 3-year-old Rockshaw, then locked up the late double Sunday with the impressive Whitmore and the 3-year-old maiden special weight winner Dupree.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A service will be held Wednesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for longtime New York horseman Glenn DiSanto, who died Saturday after a lengthy bout with cancer. He was 62.
The service will be held at Compassionate Funeral Care, 402 Maple Ave., from 4 to 8 p.m. There will also be a memorial service held in August at Saratoga for DiSanto, who hailed from upstate New York.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Lockdown, now 2 for 2 over the inner track following her victory in Sunday’s Busanda Stakes, could stay in New York and point for the Busher Stakes on Feb. 25.
Although there are suitable stakes for Lockdown at Gulfstream, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday that she would have to undergo an acclimation period after moving from cold to hot weather if she shipped there.
“It’s not the greatest time of year to move a horse to Florida,” Mott said.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Plans for Wonder Gal, the 13 1/2-length winner of the Ladies Handicap last Friday, were in flux Monday as her new connections decide whether to breed her or race her again.
Trainer Leah Gyarmati said Wonder Gal came out of the Ladies in good order and that owner Bernard Cleary is contemplating options for the 5-year-old New York-bred mare. Cleary, who races as Clearview Stable and owns Clearsky Farm, purchased Wonder Gal a few weeks ago primarily as a broodmare prospect.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sunny Ridge, the winner of Saturday’s $125,000 Jazil Stakes at Aqueduct, likely will make his next start in the $125,000 Stymie Stakes at Aqueduct on March 12.
Owner Dennis Drazin said Monday that he was willing to entertain an offer to wheel his horse back in two weeks for the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream, but the last slot for that 12-horse field was taken Monday by Noble Bird, whose connections made a deal with Earle Mack.