OLDSMAR, Fla. – On Saturday, the Sunshine State’s Thoroughbred breeding industry will be in the spotlight at Tampa Bay Downs as the 12th annual Florida Cup, featuring Florida-bred runners, tops the weekend program.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Tapiture had a significant workout Monday for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby, breezing five furlongs in company in 1:00.80 at his Oaklawn Park base. He could go favored in the Arkansas Derby, a 1 1/8-mile race that closes out the meet April 12.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Saturday’s $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks has a field of five probable starters – Arethusa, Artemis, Fashion Plate, Honey Ride, and Ria Antonia.
Fashion Plate won the Grade 1 Las Virgenes Stakes in February. Ria Antonia finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies here last fall but was promoted to first when She’s a Tiger was disqualified for causing interference in deep stretch.
The Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks, run over 1 1/16 miles, will be Ria Antonia’s first start for trainer Bob Baffert.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Hoppertunity, the winner of the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 15, worked five furlongs in 1:01.20 at Santa Anita on Sunday, leading trainer Bob Baffert to deem the colt a “possibility” for Saturday’s $1 million Santa Anita Derby.
Hoppertunity has won 2 of 4 starts and earned $410,720 for owners Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman. By Any Given Saturday, Hoppertunity was fourth in his stakes debut in the Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds on Feb. 22 and rebounded to win the Rebel Stakes over 1 1/16 miles by a half-length.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The name Apollo will be sure to surface at least a couple of hundred times between now and Kentucky Derby Day following Constitution’s game neck decision over Wildcat Red in Saturday’s $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
That’s because Constitution will enter the Derby having made only three starts and none before launching his career with an impressive seven-furlong maiden special weight victory here Jan. 11.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – About 4 1/2 hours before trainer Todd Pletcher watched Constitution fight his way into the Kentucky Derby, he witnessed In Tune do the same for the Kentucky Oaks.
In her stakes debut, In Tune held off a prolonged challenge from House Rules to win the Grade 2, $300,000 Gulfstream Oaks by a neck to remain undefeated in three career starts and secure a spot in the $1 million Kentucky Oaks on May 2.
It was nice enough for trainer Robertino Diodoro that his star sprinter L. A. Weekend easily captured the Coyote Handicap at Turf Paradise on Saturday. But the cherry on top was that the win gave him 104 for the current meet at the Phoenix track, tying the record for the most wins in a meet there.
And only about 20 minutes later in the next race, the record was his, as his Apply stormed home to give him meet victory No. 105.
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NEW ORLEANS – Vicar’s in Trouble, the winner of the Louisiana Derby here Saturday, came out of the race in good order and, by Sunday afternoon, was scheduled to be in Louisville, Ky., where he will be prepared for the Kentucky Derby along with his Mike Maker-trained stablemate, General a Rod, who was third Saturday in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – There is a carryover of $92,562 for Sunday’s nine-race program at Santa Anita.
An upset win by Secrets at Midnight ($37.40) in the sixth race was too tough to find for most ticketholders. After Moone’s My Name ($10.80) and Majestic Harbor ($13.60) won stakes in the seventh and eighth races, the carryover was clinched.
Sunday’s program has the typical structure for a nine-race card, with the pick six covering the fourth through ninth races. Racing begins at 12:30 p.m. Pacific.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The mutuel field closed as the favorite yet again in Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which closed Saturday at 6 p.m. Eastern following a three-day run.
The field, the 24th or “all others” option, closed at 5-1, followed by California Chrome (9-1), Cairo Prince (9-1), Social Inclusion (11-1), Candy Boy (13-1), Bayern (15-1), Hoppertunity (15-1), Tapiture (15-1), Samraat (17-1), Constitution (19-1), and Intense Holiday (20-1).