Given that Santa Anita has a new dirt track, it’s purely conjecture whether there will be a reprise of last year’s pronounced inside-speed bias on Breeders’ Cup Friday, one that helped the front-running Goldencents become the first Dirt Mile winner to stretch out successfully from a shorter race.
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Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:13
There are many paths to the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, but at least two leading contenders for the Oct. 31 race at Santa Anita will be coming out of an unlikely prep.
International Star, trained by Mike Maker, and Conquest Typhoon, trained by Mark Casse, ran one-two last Sunday in the Grade 3 Grey Stakes on Polytrack at Woodbine. The horses landed in the race for different reasons, but according to their trainers, both will return to the grass for the Juvenile Turf.
The lone Grade 1 race in North America this weekend – Saturday’s $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland – is among the most prestigious grass races for 3-year-old fillies. But it doesn’t carry the Breeders’ Cup significance of races such as the Rodeo Drive and Flower Bowl, races for older mares that serve as the primary U.S. preps for the BC Filly and Mare Turf, which will be run Nov. 1 at Santa Anita.
Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:25
Big Blue Kitten may be the lone representative in the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 1 for owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey and trainer Chad Brown.
On Tuesday, Brown said Big Blue Kitten was “50-50” for the BC Turf, with the $1 million Canadian International at Woodbine on Oct. 19 also a consideration. Weather will play a significant role in the decision, Brown said. Both races are over 1 1/2 miles.
“We’ll monitor how the horse is doing and the weather,” Brown said. “I certainly wouldn’t want to run him in Canada if it was soft.”
Aqueduct Winter 2014-15
Post Times
12:20 p.m. ET daily except:
12:00 p.m. (Friday, Nov. 29, Saturday, Nov. 30)
11:25 a.m. (Thursday, Nov. 28 – Thanksgiving Day)
Dark Mondays and Tuesdays except: Dark, Wednesday, Dec. 25 ~ Open: Tuesday, Dec. 31
Handicapping Information
ARCADIA, Calif. -- For the second time in a week, there are nine races on a weekday at Santa Anita on Thursday.
Overall demand to enter horses was sufficient enough last Friday and again for Thursday to add a race to scheduled eight-race programs, racing secretary Rick Hammerle said.
MIAMI – East Hall was enjoying a well-deserved day off Tuesday after returning home from a surprising one-length victory over Vicar’s in Trouble in last Saturday’s Grade 2 Indiana Derby. East Hall, who also won the Ohio Derby this summer, defeated an Indiana Derby field that included another 3-year-old based at Gulfstream Park, the previously undefeated Atreides, who finished a well-beaten sixth as the even-money favorite.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Doug O’Neill, who faces a 45-day suspension for a medication violation in New York, will not be the trainer of record of horses from his stable at Santa Anita on Thursday and Friday.
The horses will run under the name of his assistant, Leandro Mora, a decision that O’Neill said Tuesday was made by the owners last weekend.
“They have asked to have Leandro run the horses on Thursday and Friday,” he said.
Bayerd, an 11 1/2-length maiden winner at Saratoga in August, shipped to Remington last month with an eye on the track’s 2-year-old stakes program, said trainer Steve Asmussen. The horse won the $75,825 Kip Deville on the Oklahoma Derby undercard Sept. 28 and is now being pointed for the $100,000 Clever Trevor at Remington on Nov. 7. The final race in the series is the $250,000 Springboard Mile on Dec. 14.
“It’s a nice program,” Asmussen said.