ARCADIA, Calif. – Can the top 3-year-old from Puerto Rico become a top 3-year-old in the United States? Mickey Gonzalez believes the answer is yes.
Tonito M won six of seven starts in Puerto Rico before Gonzalez purchased him last month. The Rock Hard Ten colt arrived at Santa Anita on Friday to prepare for a U.S. campaign. He jogged twice over the weekend and was scheduled to begin galloping Tuesday for his new trainer, Jerry Hollendorfer.
Dominic Galluscio, who won more than 1,000 races during a training career that spanned more than three decades, died Monday after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 55.
Often seen with a smile on his face, and frequently with a cigar between his lips, Galluscio was well-liked and well-respected among his peers on the Belmont Park backstretch.
Turf Paradise will hold an auction, both silent and live, as well as a bake sale and dinner following the races on Wednesday, April 16, to raise funds to assist injured rider Anne Von Rosen.
The 43-year-old rider was injured March 11 when after pulling up following a Quarter Horse race at the Phoenix track her mount, Panchita Bonita, who had finished second, stumbled and flipped, landing on her. She suffered serious spinal cord injuries and has already gone through a number of surgeries.
The Virginia Racing Commission scheduled a meeting for March 27 to consider live-racing dates at Colonial Downs this year after adverse weather prevented many commissioners from attending a meeting Monday at the New Kent racetrack, the executive director of the commission said after the meeting.
Gulfstream Park and its owners, trainers and jockeys will hold a fundraiser next Sunday for Chaminade-Madonna student Stephanie Schriefer,
who is battling Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
Schriefer is a 15-year-old racing fan who attended Little Flower Catholic School with the daughters of jockey John Velazquez and former rider Jose Santos. She is undergoing chemotherapy at Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital.
While there will be some price increases in admission and seating for this year’s Belmont Stakes, they are not nearly as steep as initially thought when NYRA president and chief executive Chris Kay suggested they would be in line with prices for the Kentucky Derby.
Grandstand admission to the Belmont Stakes on June 7 will remain at $10, while clubhouse admission will increase by $10 to $30, the New York Racing Association announced Monday.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Mucho Macho Man returned to the track for the first time here Monday since his fourth-place finish nine days earlier in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap.
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The Godolphin-owned entry of Long River, who drew the rail, and Romansh, who drew the extreme outside, heads the field of seven entered Monday for Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior Stakes, the final stakes race of the inner-track season.
Long River, trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, has won his last three starts, including the Evening Attire on Jan. 18, while Romansh, trained by Tom Albertrani, returns to New York, where last year he won the Grade 3 Discovery over the main track. Romansh is coming off a last-place finish in the Donn Handicap.
When Iratinelexburance won Aqueduct's fourth race on March 14, it not only broke a long losing streak for trainer Rick Schosberg, but it proved to be a milestone victory as well.
Iratinelexburance gave Schosberg the 800th win of his training career while ending an 0-for-42 skid that dated back to Nov. 1.
Making the victory a little more special was that the horse was owned by his father, Paul Schosberg.
“We were just waiting for the right time,” Rick Schosberg quipped. “I wanted it to be dad’s horse. Her last three races I thought were going to be it.”
