Opportunities to ride in Grade 1 races don’t come often enough for jockey Kendrick Carmouche, which is why he was disappointed to lose the mount on the undefeated Integration for Saturday’s $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational at Gulfstream Park.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Edwin Maldonado, sidelined since Jan. 6 after sustaining a shoulder injury in a morning workout, is booked to return to riding on Friday with six mounts on an eight-race program at Santa Anita.
Maldonado, 31, will be hoping to return to the form he showed in the first weeks of the current winter-spring meeting.
Despite not riding in nearly four weeks, Maldonado is tied for seventh place in the jockey standings with six wins from 15 mounts. Through Sunday, Flavien Prat and Juan Hernandez are tied for the lead with 18 wins.
ARCADIA, Calif. – More than three months after she sustained fractured sesamoids in a workout at Santa Anita, the 2021 champion Echo Zulu continues her recovery at a local veterinary clinic.
The 5-year-old Echo Zulu is likely to remain at the clinic for considerable time, according to Scott Blasi, assistant trainer to Steve Asmussen.
“We’re still progressing,” Blasi said on Sunday.
“We’re not to the point to turn her out or anything like that yet. It’s still a week-by-week thing.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – She’s 19 races into her career and just getting started, her trainer said.
Desert Dawn, the winner of the Grade 3 La Canada Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Saturday, could be on the verge of a career-best year as a 5-year-old mare in 2024, according to trainer Phil D’Amato.
“I think she’s like a fine wine,” D’Amato said on Sunday. “She gets better with age.”
Lucky Jeremy is being considered for the Grade 3, $400,000 Sunland Park Derby after a convincing win in the local prep, $100,000 Riley Allison Derby, on Friday in New Mexico.
The Sunland Derby is a points race for the Kentucky Derby and it will be held about five weeks earlier this year, on Feb. 18. The new date has led to a new distance for the race, which has been shortened from 1 1/8 miles to 1 1/16 miles. The first five finishers will earn points on a scale of 20-10-6-4-2.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Charlton Baker has several options for Twenty Four Mamba following back-to-back allowance wins at Aqueduct in which he earned a 91 Beyer Speed Figure each time.
Baker is considering another allowance spot for which Twenty Four Mamba is eligible at Aqueduct on Feb. 9; the Grade 3, $250,000 General George at Laurel Park on Feb. 19; or he could wait for the Grade 3, $175,000 Tom Fool Handicap at Aqueduct on March 2.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Drum Roll Please, who won the Jerome Stakes by 3 3/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Jan. 6, is off the Triple Crown trail after coming out of a Friday morning workout at Belmont Park with an injury, owner Al Gold said Friday afternoon.
Gold said following the in-company workout, which was timed in 49.55 seconds for a half-mile, Drum Roll Please was off in a hind leg and X-rays showed an apical medial sesamoid fracture of his left hind ankle. Gold said Drum Roll Please will have surgery, likely in Maryland next week, and will be sidelined until the summer.
For Turf Paradise and its horsemen, the last eight months have been a roller-coaster ride.
The kind that makes you queasy, relieved to just get off.
Just after the close of last year’s meet in May, track owner Jerry Simms announced that he was getting out, and Turf would be closed. A potential buyer emerged, but then backed out after the partnership couldn’t get favorable legislation passed.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn Park has moved the date of the Grade 3, $800,000 Southwest Stakes to Feb. 3 because ongoing freezing temperatures that have already led to the loss of four races dates and five days of training. The track announced the new date for the race and some of its other stakes on Thursday.
Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., has canceled live racing for Friday, Saturday and Sunday because of a winter storm system that has gripped the region since Sunday, the track announced on Wednesday.
Sam Houston Race Park and Louisiana Downs also have canceled recent race dates during the patch of winter weather. Those tracks, and Delta Downs, have lost some training time, too, and Oaklawn announced Wednesday there would be no training until further notice.
Oaklawn made the decision to cancel the upcoming raceweek just before 2 p.m. Central on Wednesday.