The undefeated Enola Gray was scratched from Sunday’s $100,000 Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar because of an illness, trainer Phil D’Amato said.
Enola Gray was the 4-5 favorite on the morning line. D’Amato said he canceled a start when Enola Gray coughed and had a mucous presence Saturday. The Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes at a mile for 3-year-old fillies was intended to be the graded-stakes debut for Enola Gray, who has won three races for owner and breeder Nick Alexander.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Masochistic will start in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 5 with an unbeaten record this year.
Masochistic was the easy winner Saturday of the $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar against two overmatched rivals. Trainer Ron Ellis on Sunday reiterated his plan for Masochistic to make his next start in the BC Sprint.
DEL MAR, Calif. - In late June, weeks before the start of the current Del Mar summer meeting, trainer Shelbe Ruis rated Union Strike as the best 2-year-old in her stable.
Two months later, Union Strike’s status is unchanged.
Union Strike will give Ruis, 25, on Saturday her first starter in a Grade 1 race in the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante for 2-year-old fillies. The Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante will be the stakes debut for Union Strike, who was second to American Cleopatra in a maiden race at Del Mar on July 31 in her first career start.
Haveyougoneaway came out of her half-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Ballerina tired but otherwise okay, according to trainer Tom Morley, who will likely trainer the New York-bred daughter of Congrats up to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.
“She’s tired today; it’s the first time I’ve seen her tired after a race,” Morley said Sunday. “That definitely took its toll yesterday. She showed her bloody heart and ran hard.”
Last summer, Cavorting won two stakes at Saratoga and went to the Breeders’ Cup as the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.
This year, Cavorting will head to Southern California for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, coming off a half-length victory in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign, her first start around two turns.
Trainer Chad Brown had mixed emotions regarding Lady Eli’s second-place finish to Strike Charmer in Saturday’s Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga. Naturally, he was disappointed that Lady Eli suffered her first career defeat, beaten three-quarters of a length by Strike Charmer.
But Lady Eli ran terrific in her first start in nearly 14 months, after overcoming laminitis. Strike Charmer’s time of 1:38.77 was a stakes record, eclipsing the mark of 1:39.07 set by Zagora in 2012.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Flintshire, the other part of Juddmonte Farms’ dynamite double with Travers winner Arrogate, came out of his victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Sword Dancer Stakes in good order and will be pointed to the Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont Park on Oct. 1, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.
Former champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr., the all-time winningest rider in Quarter Horse racing, is coming out of retirement to ride Koolnfamous in the $3 million All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Sept. 5, the New Mexico track announced Sunday.
Carter has not ridden since December, but recently worked horses at Remington Park in Oklahoma. Carter began exercising horses at Ruidoso Downs on Friday and said he needs to lose 10 pounds to reach the 120-pound assignment for the All American Futurity.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Accelerate won his stakes debut in Friday’s $100,690 Shared Belief Stakes for 3-year-olds, a victory that will lead to his graded stakes debut next month.
Trainer John Sadler said on Saturday that Accelerate will be pointed for the $200,000 Los Alamitos Derby, a Grade 2 race at 1 1/8 miles. The Los Alamitos Derby is the most lucrative race of the Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Los Alamitos, which runs from Sept. 8-25.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The stakes winner Green With Eddie has been sidelined with a bone chip in an ankle and will not start in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 5, trainer Doug O’Neill said on Saturday.
O’Neill said the injury was diagnosed in recent days after Green With Eddie worked a half-mile in 47.40 seconds Aug. 21.
Owned by Paul and Zillah Reddam, Green With Eddie has won 2 of 3 starts and earned $115,600. Green With Eddie won the Graduation Stakes for California-breds on Aug. 3 in his most recent start.
