SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It has been another good Saratoga meet for Phil Bauer and the Kentucky-based trainer hopes he’s not done yet.
Bauer has won four races from his first eight starters at Saratoga and has his eyes set on at least two upcoming graded stakes before this meet ends.
Bauer plans to run Xigera in the Grade 1, $500,000 Personal Ensign on Aug. 23 followed by Angkor in the Grade 1, $500,000 Forego on Aug. 24.
SARATOGA SPRNGS, N.Y. – Kingsbarns, whose victory in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster on June 29 put him in the upper echelon of the older male dirt division, has been retired from racing after developing a ligament injury, his connections said Wednesday.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario -- Canadian champion 2-year-old My Boy Prince was tabbed as the 7-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s 165th edition of the $1 million King’s Plate at Woodbine.
My Boy Prince will take a three-race win streak into the 1 1/4-mile event for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds and is coming off a workmanlike score in the Plate Trial Stakes. The Gary Barber-owned Cairo Prince colt drew post 7 with Sahin Civaci along for the ride.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Seize the Grey, the Preakness winner who has run poorly in his two most recent starts at Saratoga, will skip the Travers Stakes here on Aug. 24 and instead point to the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 21, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Tuesday.
Lukas said the principal partners in Seize the Grey, MyRacehorse, which owns the horse, and Gainesway Farm, which will stand the horse at stud following his racing career, met on Monday and came to the decision to point to Pennsylvania, Lukas said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Kentucky-based trainer Phil Bauer scored the first Saratoga stakes victory of his career over the weekend. Enjoying a solid summer, he’ll hope for the barn’s momentum to keep rolling as he eyes a big upset with one of his stable stars in the coming weeks.
The 2-year-old gelding Hezgothelook Z may be on the verge of a unique accomplishment in Quarter Horse history.
Hezgothelook Z won the Ruidoso and Rainbow futurities at Ruidoso Downs in Southern New Mexico in recent months, and is among 10 qualifiers for the $3 million All American Futurity at The Downs at Albuquerque on Sept. 2 after winning a time trial on Friday.
Colonial Downs, which is owned by Churchill Downs Inc., on Sunday announced it would host a four-day race meeting next March in addition to its regular summer season running from late July through early September.
The last North American-based 3-year-old to win the Breeders’ Cup Mile was War Chant in 2000, but the way Trikari has progressed through late spring and summer, his connections are wondering if the colt might be BC Mile material come November.
When Moira beat Fev Rover by a head in the Beverly D. Stakes on Sunday at Colonial Downs, it marked the sixth meeting between the mares. Their seventh matchup likely comes Sept. 14 at Woodbine in the Grade 1, $750,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes.
Both horses, according to their respective trainers, emerged from Sunday’s contest in good physical condition, and both will resume training at Woodbine. Moira, who needed the entire homestretch to push past pacesetting Fev Rover as the odds-on Beverly D. favorite, was on a horse trailer Monday headed north from Virginia.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With Carl Spackler having become a Grade 1 winner and earning a fees-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile on Nov. 2 by virtue of his victory in Sunday’s Fourstardave, trainer Chad Brown must now figure out the best route to get to the $2 million race at Del Mar.
His main choices for a race in between now and the BC Mile are the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile on Sept. 14 or the Grade 1, $1.25 million Coolmore Turf Mile on Oct. 5 at Keeneland. As an Irish-bred, Carl Spackler would only be running for $1 million at Keeneland.
