ARCADIA, Calif. - The undefeated 3-year-old Indianapolis will miss his scheduled graded-stakes debut in Sunday’s $200,000 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita after he coughed Wednesday and then was found to have mucus in his airway, trainer Bob Baffert said.
“I was going to work him and he coughed,” Baffert said. “He just came up with it. He coughed and we scoped him.
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The highly regarded 3-year-old Honor Code, who recently missed some training time with a minor injury, is scheduled to work on Wednesday morning at Gulfstream Park as he begins anew his preparation for his 2014 debut, trainer Shug McGaughey said Tuesday afternoon.
Intense Holiday, who finished a solid third in Cairo Prince’s Holy Bull Stakes romp, will make his next start in the Grade 2, $400,000 Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 22 at Fair Grounds.
Intense Holiday also had been under consideration for the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park, but Pletcher said via text message Monday that Intense Holiday would instead be shipped from Pletcher’s Palm Meadows base to New Orleans for the 1 1/16-mile Risen Star. Pletcher still has Commissioner as an intended runner in the Fountain of Youth.
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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Two of trainer Todd Pletcher’s plethora of Kentucky Derby hopefuls worked at Palm Meadows on Tuesday, including his most-accomplished 3-year-old, Havana.
In his third work in less than two weeks, Havana breezed a half-mile in 50.50. His stablemate Hartford, who won his only race by 5 3/4 lengths at Gulfstream last month, got back on track Monday after having missed a work, breezing five furlongs in 1:01.25.
Broadway Empire, winner of the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park in October and two stakes in Canada, has returned to training at Turf Paradise, trainer Robertino Diodoro said over the weekend.
Broadway Empire was ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and Zia Park Derby in November before being turned out briefly.
“I gave him 45 days off,” Diodoro said. “He’s training in Phoenix. He had two quarter-cracks and had been fighting them all year. We got them wired, and we gave him a little break.”
Jockey Patrick Valenzuela, who has not ridden since late January and said at the time his riding career was over, has been banned from racetrack grounds.
Valenzuela failed to appear at a hearing with track stewards Feb. 6 to discuss his absence from riding on Jan. 24 and was subsequently suspended indefinitely. The terms of the suspension deny Valenzuela access to California’s racetracks.
ARCADIA, Calif. – No matter what she accomplishes in her racing career, Eblouissante will never escape the shadow of Zenyatta, her half-sister and the 2010 Horse of the Year.
“That’s just the way it is,” said trainer John Shirreffs, who trained them both.
Zenyatta won her first 19 races, losing her 20th and final start to Blame in a thrilling running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2010.
