ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Clondaw Warrior is 9. That is a ripe old age for a racehorse, and yet he comes into the $300,000 American St. Leger on Saturday having just won the biggest prize of his career, first place over 20 rivals in the $331,800 Galway Handicap Hurdle in Ireland. The race was July 28, meaning Clondaw Warrior runs on about two weeks’ rest with a ship from Ireland to Chicago in between.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Owner Ken Ramsey doesn’t ever want to see a repeat of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, where Dayatthespa set such a slow pace that Ramsey’s Stephanie’s Kitten, closing from the rear of the field, was unable to run her down.
“Dayatthespa, she didn’t run a mile and a quarter – she galloped a mile and ran a quarter-mile,” Ramsey said by phone this week. “From my standpoint, I should’ve had a rabbit in there.”
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – A field of 13 was entered Tuesday for the 34th running of the Arlington Million, headed by the domestic horses World Approval, Wake Forest, and The Pizza Man and including a solid four-horse European contingent of Tryster, Mondialiste, Deauville, and Decorated Knight.
Eleven horses were entered for the Grade 3, $200,000 Longacres Mile on Wednesday. The most prestigious race in the Pacific Northwest will be contested at Emerald Downs on Sunday with O B Harbor and Alert Bay the starting highweights at 123 pounds.
Remington Park in Oklahoma City opens its 67-date meet Friday night with an appealing nine-race card that features two allowances, an expanded Oklahoma Derby program on the horizon, and a stable area that has drawn divisions from such leading North American trainers as Steve Asmussen and Karl Broberg.
Remington will hold nighttime racing Wednesdays through Saturdays but will put on its two biggest programs of the season on Sunday afternoons. Oklahoma Derby Day is set for Sept. 25, and Springboard Mile Day closes out the meet Dec. 11.
The jockeys’ race at Ellis Park couldn’t get much tighter. With 17 of the 30 summer programs in the books, six riders are within three wins of the lead.
When another three-day weekend begins Friday at the western Kentucky track, Didiel Osorio will have the lead – but barely. Osorio, who won the Ellis riding title last summer, has ridden 14 winners at a meet that began July 2, followed in close order by Robby Albarado (13), Jimmy Graham (13), Brian Hernandez Jr. (13), Corey Lanerie (12), and Miguel Mena (11).
DEL MAR, Calif. – After watching Beholder breeze five furlongs in 59 seconds here Wednesday, trainer Richard Mandell said she is likely to start in the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 20.
“There’s no reason not to do it from what I’ve seen so far,” Mandella said shortly after the workout.
If Beholder starts, the Pacific Classic would be the first matchup between the three-time champion mare and Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year and the winner of the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The older female grass division on this circuit has produced many stakes winners and no clear-cut leader for the better part of two years now, so it will be interesting to see if Sobradora Inc can assume that mantle. Considering the way she won the Osunitas Stakes on Sunday, plus her obvious upside, she’s got a chance.
DEL MAR, Calif. – California Chrome will have his final work for the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic on Sunday morning at Los Alamitos, then will head to Del Mar on Monday.
“He’s done so good over there, I don’t want to change anything,” trainer Art Sherman said while watching his horses train at Del Mar this week.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The theory that Songbird would improve with more experience training over Saratoga’s main track is proving to be valid.
Tuesday morning, in her second breeze over the track since winning the Coaching Club American Oaks, Songbird sailed through five furlongs in 1:00.70. She got her last half-mile in 46.73 seconds under exercise rider Edgar Rodriguez.
The best part of the breeze may have come after the wire when she galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.63, seven-eighths in 1:26.19, and a mile in 1:39.71.