ARCADIA, Calif. – Salto Del Indio, a Group 1 winner in Chile last October, has been bought by the Little Red Feather Racing Club and transferred to trainer Mike Puype at Santa Anita.
Salto Del Indio arrived in Southern California earlier this month.
Salto Del Indio will be pointed for the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 28, according to Little Red Feather president Billy Koch.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The 2014 Hastings meet begins Sunday with a strong card that includes a couple 6 1/2-furlong sprint stakes. The $50,000 George Royal for 3-year-olds and up drew eight horses and goes as the sixth race. Fillies and mares get their turn in the $50,000 Brighouse Belles in the seventh race. Both races appear to be wide-open events.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Suggestive Boy, third in the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf at Santa Anita on March 8, has resumed training after a break and could race as early as the Del Mar summer meeting.
Trainer Ron McAnally said Suggestive Boy had “a minor problem,” but did not elaborate.
“We gave him a little time,” McAnally said. “He won’t be ready for awhile. We decided to back off.“
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Since Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg moved his base of operations back to the Midwest from Southern California this winter, he has been surrounded by former assistants. During the Oaklawn Park meet, he shared a barn with Billy Gowan, who on Saturday will saddle Ride On Curlin in the Kentucky Derby, and Ralph Irwin, a mainstay in Arkansas and Louisiana.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There will likely be more than 150,000 people in attendance at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day, but it shouldn’t be hard to spot Wildcat Red’s co-owner Salvador Delfino, even amongst a crowd of that magnitude.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A field of 13 3-year-old fillies led by Untapable is now expected for the Oaks with the addition of Empress of Midway and the defections of both In Tune and Room Service.
Trainer Todd Pletcher said In Tune, who has won all three of her starts, including the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks, will not run in the Kentucky Oaks due to a sore shin.
“We noticed something out of her last breeze at Palm Meadows,” said Pletcher. “I thought we’d bring her here and see how we stood with her.”
ELMONT, N.Y. – Wicked Strong, Samraat, and Uncle Sigh – the first, second, and fifth finishers in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial – all put in their last major workouts Friday in New York for the $2 million Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The donkeys. He would only ride the donkeys around his father’s goat farm because the horses were terrifying. But the donkeys, they were okay.
Then one day, he remembers he was probably 7, he summoned enough courage to climb atop one of the farm ponies.
