SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Tonalist, the Belmont Stakes winner and the runner-up as the favorite in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy, worked five furlongs in 1:03.21 on Saturday over the Oklahoma training track as he prepares for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes here Aug. 23.
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Amsterdam Stakes winner Coup de Grace likely will be favored when he returns to Saratoga in two weeks for the Grade 1 King’s Bishop. But there certainly will be no shortage of challengers awaiting his arrival, three of whom worked over the main track here Saturday.
C. Zee, who finished a game second in the Amsterdam after being hard used throughout while breaking from the rail, zipped through a 47.21-second half-mile work for trainer Nick Zito with exercise rider Maxine Correa aboard.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Had things gone as planned, Wise Dan would have performed in front of thousands of fans at Saratoga on Saturday afternoon instead of a handful of early risers Saturday morning.
A bout of colic that required surgery in mid-May threw Wise Dan off schedule and basically blew the two-time Horse of the Year’s summer, including missing Saturday’s Grade 2 Fourstardave, a race he had won here the previous two summers.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Master the Blues created a pleasant problem when she won Friday’s $96,560 Daisycutter Handicap at Del Mar. She earned too much money to be eligible for her next start, the $90,000 CERF Stakes on Sept. 3.
The CERF Stakes is run over six furlongs for fillies and mares who have not earned a first-place purse of $50,000 or more since March 1. In the Daisycutter, Master the Blues earned $56,640.
“She won too much,” trainer Bob Hess Jr. said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Had things gone as planned, Wise Dan would have performed in front of thousands of fans at Saratoga on Saturday afternoon instead of a handful of early risers Saturday morning.
A bout of colic that required surgery in mid-May threw Wise Dan off schedule and basically blew the two-time Horse of the Year’s summer, including missing Saturday’s Grade 2 Fourstardave, a race he had won here the previous two summers.
Lukin Gilliland, an owner and breeder since 1965, died July 20, according to an official with Retama Park. Gilliland was a resident of San Antonio.
Gilliland was a co-founder, partner, and adviser in Oak Cliff Thoroughbreds, which is the breeder of the champion Sunday Silence. He also bred and raised Grey Daze, who recently captured the $365,260 Texas Quarter Horse Association Sale Futurity, the richest race run at Retama.
Gilliland was an attorney.
Bobby Walker Jr., the retired rider who was once a fixture at Louisiana Downs, has been diagnosed with testicular cancer, according to Jim Wells of the media department at Canterbury Park. Walker is a jockey agent at the Minnesota track. He told Wells his goal is to return home to West Monroe, La.
Walker, 53, won nearly 3,000 races in his career. He was in Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minn., on Thursday, and in order to get back to Louisiana, he will need medical transportation that will cost between $5,000 and $10,000, his daughter, Brittany, told Wells.
