Puntsville, who has run in three straight stakes races, winning two and most recently finishing a solid second in the Brandywine Stakes at Indiana Grand, drops into allowance competition in the featured second race Sunday at Arlington.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – At least 10 horses, and perhaps as many as 12, are committed to next Saturday’s Arlington Million.
Tryster – who could be the race favorite – Deauville, and Mondialiste head a four-horse overseas contingent that also includes Decorated Knight. The Pizza Man, as the defending Million champion, nominally leads the group of U.S.-based pre-entrants, though The Pizza Man has not yet hit form in 2016 good enough to earn a repeat victory in the 1 1/4-mile grass race.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Economic Model was to scratch from Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer and will now point to the Grade 1 King’s Bishop at Saratoga on Aug. 27, trainer Chad Brown said Friday.
Brown said he prefers to keep Economic Model around one turn and has trained the horse in blinkers, equipment he will wear for the first time in the seven-furlong King’s Bishop.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Runaway Lute, the New York-bred 2-year-old who is 2 for 2, will point to the Grade 1 Hopeful on Sept. 5, trainer Gary Contessa said.
On Friday, Runaway Lute worked five furlongs in 1:01.20 over the Oklahoma training track, his first breeze since winning the Rockville Centre Stakes by 8 3/4 lengths on July 16 at Belmont Park.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After watching his Grade 1 stakes-winning 3-year-old filly Carina Mia put in a workout Friday morning over the Oklahoma training track, trainer Bill Mott had the following thought: “All I know is that filly who beat her has to be pretty darn good.”
Mott was referring to Songbird, who defeated Carina Mia by 5 1/4 lengths in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks here on July 24. Songbird, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2015, is undefeated in nine career starts.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With accomplished horses like Tepin, Noble Bird, and Catch a Glimpse in the barn, trainer Mark Casse is pretty well stocked for this season. But the future also looks bright for the Casse stable, which welcomed the stakes-winning juveniles Classic Empire and Pretty City Dancer to Saratoga last week to prepare for their Grade 1 debuts in the Hopeful and Spinaway stakes on closing weekend.
Sobradora Inc, unbeaten in four starts in Argentina in 2015, will make her American debut in Sunday’s $75,000 Osunitas Stakes for fillies and mares at Del Mar. The minor stakes could put Sobradora Inc on course for the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita in November.
The 4-year-old Sobradora Inc has won three stakes, including consecutive Group 1 races at 1 1/4 miles on turf in Argentina last November and December. She has not raced this year.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The late-developing Arrogate is ready for his stakes debut in the $1.25 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 27.
Arrogate won his third consecutive race with an easy victory against two rivals in an optional claimer at Del Mar on Thursday. The win left trainer Bob Baffert eager to try Arrogate in the Travers at 1 1/4 miles, the leading race for 3-year-olds in August.
Arrogate, by Unbridled’s Song, was bred and races for Juddmonte Farms.
Shes Got the Look is one of the first horses Ralph Nicks has trained for John Brunetti Sr., so he’s not quite sure what might transpire in the aftermath of the 2-year-old filly winning her career debut Thursday at Gulfstream Park by an eye-popping 16 1/4 lengths.
“I’m sure there’ll be people wanting to buy her,” Nicks said early Friday by phone from the south Florida track. “All I know is I was asked to get an insurance form on her today, so maybe that means she’ll be sticking around for a while.”
Straight Fire could not keep pace with Chasing Aces in a maiden race at five furlongs in his debut at Del Mar on July 17, losing by 5 1/4 lengths. The loss seems to have had its benefits.
“He might be a little more on the bit now, a lot stronger and a lot more keyed in mentally,” trainer Keith Desormeaux said.
Straight Fire’s newly gained focus could result in a win in a maiden race at 6 1/2 furlongs in Saturday’s eighth race. Desormeaux sees the race as a possible prep for the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity at seven furlongs on Sept. 5.