ELMONT, N.Y. - With Belmont Park’s main track playing like the Autobahn Saturday morning, Wicked Strong put in a solid, controlled six-furlong work in 1:13.17 in preparation for his engagement in next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup.
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Del Mar will continue to offer an incentive program to owners who ship horses from out of state for the autumn meeting, which runs from Nov. 7-30.
The Ship and Win program will have terms similar to those in place for the track’s summer meeting. Del Mar will pay $1,000 to owners who start a horse at the meet who have not run in California this year. Such horses will also be eligible for a 30 percent purse bonus in overnight races.
Horses making their first start are not eligible for the bonuses.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Fashion Plate, the winner of two Grade 1 race for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita earlier this year, will not race before she is offered for sale in Kentucky in November, trainer Simon Callaghan said.
Fashion Plate is nominated for the $300,000 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 27, but will pass the race after finishing fifth in the Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 31, her third consecutive defeat. The Zenyatta Stakes field is expected to be led by the two-time champion Beholder.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Masochistic, second in the Los Alamitos Mile on Sept. 6, could make his next start in the $200,000 Bold Ruler Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 25, trainer A.C. Avila said.
Friday at Santa Anita, Masochistic worked a half-mile in 44.80 seconds, the fastest of 24 works at the distance.
The Grade 3 Bold Ruler is run over seven furlongs, which Avila said has greater appeal than the $300,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship over six furlongs on Oct. 4.
“I want to run him seven furlongs or a mile,” Avila said.
Trainer Steve Flint has a number of quality 2-year-olds in his care, and a few of them could see stakes action soon at either Delta or Remington Park. Flint is a private trainer for Whispering Oaks Farm and operates out of the Evangeline Training Center near Lafayette, La.
Grand Contender, who swept both graded races run this past meet at Lone Star Park, has resumed training following a freshening and could return to action this fall at Delta Downs, according to trainer Tom Amoss. Grand Contender captured the Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile and the Grade 3, $200,000 Lone Star Park Handicap in succession, invading from his Churchill Downs base in Kentucky.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Happy My Way reintroduced himself to the Belmont main track Thursday morning by blazing five furlongs in 58.59 seconds in preparation for the Grade 1 Vosburgh here Sept. 27. It was the fastest of 10 works at the distance.
Happy My Way had not been on Belmont’s main track since last October, when he was training here. In two career starts over the main track, Happy My Way won a maiden $65,000 claimer in September 2012 and was a well-beaten fifth in the Gygistar Stakes in May 2013.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Jess’s Dream, the first foal out of 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra and by 2007-08 Horse of the Year Curlin, worked three furlongs in 36.84 seconds Friday morning over Belmont’s main track. It was the juvenile colt’s first work since he arrived in trainer Kiaran McLaughlin’s barn.
Jess’s Dream, owned by Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stable, worked outside of stablemate Good Pick Nick, finishing slightly ahead of him at the wire.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The aggressive manner in which Cavorting gallops prompts trainer Kiaran McLaughlin to work the stakes-winning 2-year-old filly infrequently.
On Friday, and for the first time since Aug. 29, Cavorting worked, breezing four furlongs in 47.49 seconds over a fast Belmont main track. Cavorting went her first quarter in 23.39 seconds, her second quarter in 24.10, and galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.10.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Alpha has tailed off. Romansh and Long River have disappointed. But on Thursday, a new player emerged among Godolphin Racing’s older male division.
Transparent, unraced in the United States since a fourth-place finish in last year’s Pennsylvania Derby, came off an eight-month layoff to set a track record at Belmont Park, winning a second-level allowance race by 1 1/4 lengths. His final time of 1:39.22 for 1 1/16 miles eclipsed the mark of 1:39.38 set by Birdrun in 2009.