ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Up With the Birds, the 2013 Canadian Horse of the Year, is back with his original trainer, Malcolm Pierce, after being trained by Graham Motion since the start of his 2015 campaign.
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Little Mike came out of his comeback race Sunday at Gulfstream Park in good shape and will be pointed to a $75,000 restricted turf stakes on Aug. 6 at the south Florida track.
Trainer Carlo Vaccarezza, who bred and owns Little Mike with his wife, Priscilla, said early Monday by phone that he was disappointed with the fifth-place finish in the allowance race by Little Mike but is willing to give the 9-year-old gelding “one more chance to show what he can do.”
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Queen’s Plate third-place finisher All On Red will join winner Sir Dudley Digges in the field for the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on July 26 at Fort Erie Racetrack.
Trainer Sid Attard said All On Red has come out of the Queen’s Plate in good order. He added that he didn’t have any concerns about All On Red’s ability to run on dirt after he won his maiden with a career-best 90 Beyer Speed Figure on dirt at Aqueduct two starts back April 24.
A dozen years ago, the Little Red Feather partnership won the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Lone Star Park with Singletary.
The same race is a goal this fall at Santa Anita with Midnight Storm, the winner of the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on June 4. In the interim, there are lucrative races to try.
Midnight Storm will have his first start of the summer in the $250,000 Eddie Read Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Del Mar next Sunday.
ARCADIA, Calif.- Masochistic is likely to make one start at the Del Mar summer meeting after scoring a dazzling win in his first start of 2016 in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Friday.
Trainer Ron Ellis said he is pointing Masochistic for the $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes at seven furlongs on Aug. 27, and has no plans for a start in the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes at six furlongs on July 31.
“We’ll keep him nice and fresh,” Ellis said.
ARCADIA, Calif.- Firing Line, second in the 2015 Kentucky Derby, has been taken out of training after being diagnosed with an illness following a fifth-place finish in an optional claimer on Saturday at Santa Anita.
The optional claimer was the first start in more than a year for Firing Line, who underwent surgery to have a bone chip removed from an ankle last summer after a seventh-place finish in the Preakness Stakes in May 2015.
ARCADIA, Calif. - One is a homebred from a breeder with a decades-long involvement in the sport. The other has been shopped around at sales up and down the West Coast and is available for sale again later this month.
The California-breds Theonewewaitedfor and California Diamond won the first stakes for 2-year-olds in Southern California at Santa Anita on Saturday. The way they were prepared to win the Landaluce Stakes and Santa Anita Juvenile could not be more diverse.
Parx Racing has added a new stakes to its schedule that is intended to serve as a prep for the Grade 1 Cotillion. The race fits nicely into the schedule of Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, according to her trainer, John Servis.
The new race is the $150,000 Princess of Sylmar. It is for 3-year-old fillies at a mile. The Princess of Sylmar will be run Sept. 3, which is Pennsylvania's Day at the Races, when Parx will hold five $100,000 stakes for statebreds.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Three weeks out from his scheduled return to the races, Preakness winner Exaggerator returned to the work tab Saturday morning, breezing an easy half-mile in 51.63 seconds over the Belmont Park main track.
It was Exaggerator’s first workout since his 11th-place finish as the favorite in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 11. Exaggerator is working toward the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 30.
CYPRESS, Calif. – The popular champions Beholder, California Chrome, and Songbird had workouts at Los Alamitos and Santa Anita early Saturday in preparation for races at the end of this month.
California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, worked a mile in 1:39.60 at Los Alamitos at dawn. The winner of the Dubai World Cup on March 26, California Chrome is scheduled to start in the $200,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on July 23.