OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mohaymen came out of his victory in Wednesday’s Nashua Stakes here in good order and likely will make his next start in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct on Nov. 28, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.
Mohaymen acted up prior to the Nashua but was all business on the track, recording a 1 3/4-length victory in the Nashua, his second from as many starts.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – For nearly a decade starting in the early 1990s, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin would spend half the year training in Dubai and was a three-time leading trainer in that country.
In early 2016, McLaughlin could be headed back to Dubai – at least for a little while. He plans to take a small string there, led by his Grade 1 winner Frosted, who will point to the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 26.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The Grade 1-winning mare My Sweet Addiction has been retired after finishing 13th in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland and will remain in Kentucky to be bred, trainer Marty Jones said Thursday at Del Mar.
My Sweet Addiction led for the first six furlongs of the Distaff before tiring in the final start of a career that saw her win four times in 14 starts. Her most significant victory came in the Grade 1 Vanity at Santa Anita in May. She also finished second in the Grade 1 Zenyatta against Beholder in her final start before the Distaff.
In addition to Big Macher, there were three other Southern California-based runners in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. None is likely to race again this year.
Wild Dude, the winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Oct. 3, finished sixth, beaten 4 1/2 lengths by the winner, Runhappy. Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Wild Dude is likely to resume racing at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting that begins Dec. 26.
Big John B and Big Macher, stakes winners at Del Mar during the summer, might start later this month in stakes after losses in Breeders’ Cup races at Keeneland last weekend.
Big John B, who finished 10th of 12 in the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf under jockey Rafael Bejarano, is a candidate for the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup at 1 1/2 miles on Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Day, at Del Mar.
Trainer Phil D’Amato said he is throwing out Big John B’s loss in the Turf, which was the 6-year-old’s first start since a win in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap in August.
Tampa Bay Downs has scheduled 23 stakes worth a total of $2.7 million for its 2015-16 race meet, essentially the same as the prior meet, but when the Oldsmar, Fla., oval resumes racing Saturday, Nov. 28, the meet will have a slightly different look.
Continuing a trend seen at other tracks, Tampa Bay Downs is grouping multiple stakes races together on several Saturdays to heighten interest for the biggest day of the racing week.
Apprentice David Lopez, who leads Golden Gate Fields jockeys with 14 victories at the fall meet, will begin riding at Del Mar on Friday.
His agent, Dennis Patterson, has three mounts lined up for Friday and one Saturday.
The 26-year-old Lopez, who finished fourth in the Golden Gate standings in the winter-spring meet, had planned to move to Southern California last June but suffered fractures in his back in an accident that sidelined him until opening day of the Golden Gate fall meet on Oct. 22.
Ivan Fallunovalot, who rose to prominence last season at Oaklawn, could make his next start at the Arkansas track that opens in January. Ivan Fallunovalot was back at his Remington Park base Monday after running in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland. He finished ninth, 6 1/2 lengths behind winner Runhappy.
Tom Howard, who trains Ivan Fallunovalot, said the horse emerged from the Breeders’ Cup with a cut on his left front ankle. It led to swelling that had subsided by Tuesday.
Jockey Don Simington said he probably will miss the remainder of the Delta Downs meet as he continues to recover from severe injuries sustained in an Oct. 29 spill. Delta has just begun its Thoroughbred meet that extends into March.
Simington’s mount was on the lead in a claiming sprint when she broke down and he was thrown, as were three other riders in a chain-reaction incident. Simington, 52, suffered the most significant injuries and remained at an Alexandria, La., hospital on Wednesday.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Madefromlucky and Tommy Macho put in a solid five-furlong workout in 1:00.60 in company Wednesday morning over Belmont Park’s training track in preparation for next Wednesday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Discovery Handicap for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct.
Madefromlucky, working on the inside under John Velazquez, and Tommy Macho, working on the outside under Annie Finney, got their final three furlongs in 35.20 seconds in a move that equaled the fastest of the morning of 14 breezes.
