ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Arlington Million winner The Pizza Man will be supplemented to the Breeders’ Cup Turf at a cost of $100,000, co-owner and breeder Rich Papiese said on Wednesday, and to get to that $3 million race, The Pizza Man will go to Laurel Park.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Bob Baffert insists he doesn’t hate Saratoga.
The Hall of Fame trainer hasn’t raced much at the Spa in recent years, having started just a handful of horses the last few meets and electing to send his top assistant, Jimmy Barnes, here with those horses rather than make the cross-country trip himself. Baffert, 62, has cut down on his travel since suffering a heart attack in March 2012.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Corey Lanerie has left the Saratoga meet after a disappointing few weeks at the Spa to return to Kentucky, where on Saturday he is named on three mounts at Ellis Park.
Lanerie, the leading jockey at eight of the last nine meets at Churchill, went winless from 57 mounts at Saratoga and “decided it best to come back and regroup ahead of these big meets we’ve got coming up at Churchill and Kentucky Downs,” said Terry Miller, his longtime agent.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kentucky Downs will begin its annual five-day meet a week from Saturday on Sept. 5, with purses and anticipation higher than ever.
“We’re getting calls from all over the place,” said Randy Wehrman, stakes coordinator at the Franklin, Ky., turf-only track. “They can’t believe the money being given away.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Three-time Kentucky Derby-winning rider Calvin Borel has hired retired jockey Larry Melancon as his new agent and will be back in the saddle at Churchill and Kentucky Downs after spending most of the last two months at his new residence in Florida.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Jockey Victor Espinoza is hitting the dance floor.
Espinoza will compete on the popular “Dancing with the Stars” television program on ABC this fall. The first episode is scheduled for Sept. 14. The full cast for the program is scheduled to be announced next week.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Beholder, the brilliant winner of the $1 million Pacific Classic against males last Saturday at Del Mar, might race in 2016.
On Wednesday, owner B. Wayne Hughes said he is strongly considering racing Beholder as a 6-year-old and postponing her retirement to be bred until 2017.
“If she’s totally sound, I’d race her next year,” Hughes said in a phone interview. “She’s a special mare. I think it would be good for racing, and it’s a lot more fun for me. She has to be totally sound.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Keeneland officials have released details for the Thursday before the Breeders’ Cup, Oct. 29. Billed as “Prelude to the Cup,” a nine-race program will be highlighted by the $100,000 Lafayette Stakes, which has not been run since 2008. Regular general admission ($5) is available, but all seating and dining arrangements must be made in advance at Keeneland.com/prelude.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Miguel Mena will miss the upcoming meets at Kentucky Downs and Churchill Downs when sidelined about four weeks after fracturing his right collarbone in a post-parade accident prior to the fifth race Sunday at Ellis Park in western Kentucky.
Mena said he was warming up Paint the Moon prior to the starter-allowance race when the 5-year-old gelding suddenly propped and threw him to the dirt, causing the injury. Paint the Moon wound up finishing fourth at 27-1 under a replacement rider.
