Look for first-time starter Japan to take a significant amount of action in Saturday’s third race at Gulfstream Park, a 6 1/2-furlong maiden race for 3-year-olds that has lured a number of well-bred newcomers from top barns. Japan, a colt by Medaglia d’Oro, has trained strongly at Palm Meadows for trainer Mike Hushion and owner Barry Schwartz.
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DRF Past Performances
ARCADIA, Calif. – Shared Belief will not have a strenuous series of workouts in advance of the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 7.
On Wednesday at Golden Gate Fields, Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, worked a half-mile in 51.80 seconds, and more of the same is likely in the coming weeks for the 4-year-old gelding, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.
“I don’t have to be real hard on him for his next race,” Hollendorfer said. “He’s very fit and doing very well.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Starlight Racing is hoping that its undefeated Itsaknockout will move one step closer to another Kentucky Derby opportunity for the ownership group with a big performance Saturday in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park. A few hours earlier, Star Ladies Racing will have plenty to root for when its up-and-coming Eskenformoney tries to put herself in the Kentucky Oaks picture with a strong effort in the Grade 2 Davona Dale.
ALBANY, Calif. – When bloodstock agent Mersad Metanovic purchased a Street Boss weanling for $10,000, he was hoping he’d made a bargain purchase of a good, useful horse.
Little did he imagine that he’d just purchased a colt who would win the race he’d always dreamed of winning, the El Camino Real Derby.
Untapable worked five furlongs in 1:01.96 on Monday as she continues gearing up for her 4-year-old debut.
Untapable worked by herself, and trainer Steve Asmussen said she would have at least one more solo drill before he would consider breezing Untapable in company. It was Untapable’s second five-furlong work and her fourth breeze in total since she returned to training this winter. She had been turned out at owner-breeder Ron Winchell’s farm in Kentucky after her win the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
Trainer Steve Asmussen said Cinco Charlie is scheduled to start in the $100,000 Mine That Bird Derby at Sunland Park in New Mexico on Saturday. The multiple stakes winner drew post 5 in a field of six for the 1 1/16-mile race. Casey Lambert has the mount on the horse, who is owned by Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt.
Cinco Charlie picked up the fifth stakes win of his career in last month’s Riley Allison Derby, a Sunland race repositioned from its traditional December date to January.
Put it this way: They are definitely not the post positions – the rail for Shook Up in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes and post 2 for Tiznow R J in the Risen Star – that trainer Steve Asmussen would have chosen for his top 3-year-old stakes horses Saturday at Fair Grounds.
But post positions in all but the rarest cases are assigned, not chosen, and Asmussen and his two talented horses have no choice but to play the dealt hand.
“That’s what these preps are for, to work out all the kinks,” Asmussen said. “Better to have to overcome them now and not later.”
Condo Commando, the multiple graded stakes-winning 2-year-old filly of 2014, drew the outside post in a field of six entered Monday for Saturday’s $100,000 Busher Stakes at Aqueduct.
The 1 1/16-mile race will mark the 3-year-old debut of Condo Commando, who at 2 won the Grade 1 Spinaway and Grade 2 Demoiselle and was voted a finalist for the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old filly. She last raced Nov. 29, winning the Demoiselle by 11 1/2 lengths.
Despite cold weather and snow that forced the cancellation of the Sunday card, Laurel Park had a good weekend from a business perspective.
Monday’s card included three stakes, topped by the Grade 3, $250,000 General George. All-sources handle was more than $2.5 million, up from $1.5 million on Presidents Day last year, according to figures provided by the Stronach Group. The temperature was in the teens for the races Monday, with a wind chill in the single digits. In 2014, the weather was partly sunny and near 60 degrees.