Thoroughbred owner Wanda Polisseni, who helped Finger Lakes Racetrack establish itself as an early leader in Thoroughbred aftercare, will become the 30th member of the Finger Lakes Hall of Fame, the Farmington, N.Y., track announced this week. Polisseni’s induction will take place as part of the Finger Lakes Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association’s annual dinner meeting, this Thursday, June 6, at the Lincoln Hill Farms event center in Canandaigua, N.Y.
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DRF Past Performances
The star-crossed 4-year-old Extra Anejo scored a rousing 3 1/2-length allowance win May 30 at Churchill in his latest return from a layoff.
A $1.35 million yearling owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds, Extra Anejo, a massive beast, was one of the most impressive 2-year-old winners of 2022 but didn’t start between his October debut and the following May. Fourth in the Haskell last July, he suffered another setback and didn’t start again until last week.
With Idiomatic having all but conquered the distaff division leading her connections to entertain the idea of racing against older males, First Mission rising toward the top of the older horse division, and Hit Show a strong comeback winner of his 4-year-old debut, trainer Brad Cox already had some thinking to do about how and where to place horses in important dirt routes this summer. And after Highland Falls won the Grade 3, $275,000 Blame Stakes on Saturday at Churchill, Cox had another horse to consider for Grade 1 races at nine furlongs and beyond.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Dornoch looks to restore somewhat of a tarnished image when he starts as a probable longshot in a field of 10 in Saturday’s $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga.
Coming off a solid 2-year-old campaign, one in which he defeated Sierra Leone in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct, Dornoch’s 3-year-old campaign has been relatively underwhelming.
ARCADIA, Calif. – For all that he has accomplished on turf, winning 159 stakes since 2014, the two graded turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies at the Del Mar summer meeting have largely eluded Phil D’Amato.
D’Amato has one win in the Grade 2 San Clemente Stakes at a mile, with Bellabel in 2022, and one win in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks at 1 1/8 miles, with Going Global in 2021.
The Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos on July 6 will not include the 2023 Grade 1 winner Tamara.
Trainer Richard Mandella said on Monday that he was unsatisfied with Tamara’s latest workout on May 25 and will instead prepare the 3-year-old filly for a comeback at the Del Mar summer meeting, which begins on July 20.
Monday, June 3
Saratoga
Weather: Clear
Temperature: 58
Track: Fast
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With all the heavy lifting over, Monday proved a relatively quiet day on the Belmont Stakes training front with much of the activity that did occur taking place early over the very popular Oklahoma training track.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A set of seven horses trained by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin Racing put in workouts in rapid fire succession Saturday morning over the Oklahoma turf course in preparation for upcoming stakes engagements at next week’s Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga.