The Arizona Department of Racing plans to meet in two weeks to determine whether Turf Paradise has complied with a laundry list of safety issues that have been identified by state regulators and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
Skip to main content
Create Your DRF Account
New to DRF?
Everything you could possibly
need in one place
need in one place
Register
Don't have an account?
Register Here
DRF Past Performances
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 14:30
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Jose D’Angelo is hoping talent will trump experience when he takes his two recent graded stakes-winning but relatively lightly raced 3-year-olds – Bentornato and Howard Wolowitz – to Del Mar for the 2024 Breeders’ Cup.
Bentornato will enter the Sprint on Nov. 2 with just eight starts on his résumé, five of them victories, including a game neck decision over Sunny Breeze last month at Parx Racing in the Grade 2 Gallant Bob.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – While trainer Danny Gargan contemplates whether or not to run Grade 1 Frizette runner-up Snowyte in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, he does seem set on where he will next run his impressive debut-winning New York-bred 2-year-old Man in Finance.
Man in Finance, who won his debut Sept. 21 by 7 3/4 lengths, earning an 82 Beyer Speed Figure, will make his next start in the $200,000 Sleepy Hollow Stakes for New York-breds on Oct. 27.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jose Lezcano and his long-time agent Jason Beides have parted ways. Lezcano has retained the services of P.J. Campo to represent him.
Campo is the agent for Javier Castellano and Eric Cancel. In New York, agents may only represent two journeyman jockeys at one time. Campo will retain Castellano, who has been sidelined since Aug. 31 due to injury but could return to race-riding on Oct. 18. Cancel is looking for a new agent.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Mike Trombetta is running his best female turf sprinter, Future Is Now, in Sunday’s Grade 2 Franklin Stakes at Keeneland. But Hollywood Walk, the filly he runs in Saturday’s $135,000 Floral Park Stakes for females on turf at Aqueduct, isn’t too bad either.
“Future Is Now has been running against the best horses and doing well with them,” Trombetta said. “They’re not tremendously far off.”
The first three finishers of the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Woodbine last month – And One More Time, Vixen, and Nitrogen - are intended runners in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 1, trainer Mark Casse said earlier this week.
And One More Time stalked the pace in the Natalma Stakes at a mile on turf and won by a neck over Vixen, who closed from third. Nitrogen set the pace and was beaten three-quarters of a length.
Truly Quality has won two long-distance turf stakes since early September, leaving trainer Jonathan Thomas considering a start in the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup at Del Mar on Nov. 29 more than the Breeders’ Cup Turf at the same venue on Nov. 2.
Both races are run at 1 1/2 miles on turf.
Dreamfyre, the winner of two Grade 3 races for 2-year-old fillies in California in 2023, will be offered as a broodmare prospect at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale in Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 4.
A 3-year-old filly, Dreamfyre left trainer O.J. Jauregui’s stable at Santa Anita for Kentucky on Tuesday.
LEXINGTON, KY. – Immersive came out of her Friday win in the Grade 1 Alcibiades in good shape, has returned to trainer Brad Cox’s string at Churchill Downs, and will be among the favorites – if not the favorite – in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Who knows if she’s even the leading 2-year-old filly in Cox’s barn?
LEXINGTON, Ky. – East Avenue made several points winning the Breeders’ Futurity on Saturday at Keeneland.
He showed he can go two turns after winning his career debut over six furlongs. He demonstrated that a step up in class, from maiden to Grade 1 competition, did not exceed his capacity, scoring by more than five lengths.
East Avenue ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.17, which announced him as just about the fastest 2-year-old dirt horse to have run in North America this year, his 95 Beyer Speed Figure second only to the 96 Ferocious received winning his debut.