On Wednesday, a field of 11 was entered for the third running of the $500,000 Penn Mile at Penn National. The Saturday card will have a first post of 6 p.m. and is front-loaded with an all-stakes pick four to begin the program.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Events unfold at a slower pace on the Santa Anita turf course these days.
Since the start of the spring-summer meeting April 24, final times of turf races have been noticeably slower than during the last weeks of the track’s winter-spring meeting that ended April 19. The slower times are a result of ongoing maintenance to avoid surface compaction, a rare May rainstorm that produced approximately an inch of rain, and cool recent weather.
The condition of the surface has led to mixed reactions from some veteran riders.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Work All Week will start from the outside post in a field of seven older horses Saturday when making his first start since he won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint last fall. Bred and owned in Illinois by Midwest Thoroughbreds, the 6-year-old gelding will have Florent Geroux back aboard as a heavy favorite in the Grade 3, $100,000 Aristides.
From the rail, the lineup for the six-furlong Aristides is Alsvid, Viva Majorca, Googleado, Gentlemen’s Bet, Nates Mineshaft, Good Lord, and Work All Week.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An incident prior to the first race May 21 at Churchill prompted a question as to what Kentucky stewards can do if part of a stable coupling is scratched at the gate, leaving fans who preferred the scratched half of the entry to be stuck with the lesser half.
The answer, according to chief steward Barbara Borden: nothing.
“We have no discretionary power in these cases,” said Borden.
Competitive Edge, the unbeaten winner of the Pat Day Mile in his most recent start, is more likely to run in the Grade 2, $500,000 Woody Stephens Stakes for 3-year-olds on June 6 at Belmont Park rather than the Grade 1, $1.25 million Metropolitan Mile against older horses the same day, trainer Todd Pletcher said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Strict Compliance, a winner of consecutive races at Gulfstream Park and Keeneland this year, will make her stakes debut in Saturday’s $150,000 Penn Oaks at Penn National and not the $400,000 American Oaks at Santa Anita, trainer Chad Brown said on Wednesday.
“I decided not to put her on the plane,” Brown said.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – He may be new to Kentucky racing fans, but this sure isn’t the first rodeo for Joe Kristufek, whose image and voice have become daily staples this spring at Churchill Downs by way of the simulcast signal.
Kristufek, 45, has been involved in racing as a writer, handicapper, and television personality since 1992, when he began working as a press-box aide at Hawthorne in his hometown of Chicago.
Finger Lakes has canceled its Friday card due to a lack of entries, according to track spokesman David Mattice. The first stakes of the meet, the $50,000 Susan B. Anthony, had been scheduled for Friday.
Racing is scheduled to resume at Finger Lakes on Saturday. The card will include the rescheduled Anthony, a six-furlong race for New York-bred fillies and mares. The Saturday card will be drawn Wednesday.
Finger Lakes is racing on a five-day-a-week schedule, with Wednesdays and Sundays dark.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Anybody looking for a reason to side against American Pharoah in his quest to win the Triple Crown in the June 6 Belmont Stakes surely couldn’t have found one after watching his half-mile breeze Tuesday morning from Churchill Downs.