HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gulfstream Park’s racing secretary, P.J. Campo, saved the best for last Thursday, carding the afternoon’s $51,750 allowance feature as the finale on the 10-race card. Thursday’s main event will be decided at 7 1/2 furlongs on turf and lured nine fillies and mares, led by Coarsegold and Meri Shika.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The extreme weather that has defined the winter of 2014 has led trainer Todd Beattie to send the undefeated Taris to Oaklawn for the Grade 3, $150,000 Honeybee on Saturday, rather than return her to Laurel for this weekend’s Caesar’s Wish. As bad as the winter has been in Arkansas, it’s been more severe in Maryland.
“We’ve just had unbelievable weather this year,” Beattie said Tuesday, noting that at one point eight to 12 inches of snow hit Laurel. “It’s just shut us down.”
Race 1 |
Spot PlayKISS THE STARS (#3, 5-2) Don’t really know if we’ll even get as much as 5-2 on this Pino trainee since it’s rather obvious that she is going to be tough to beat after badly needing that Feb. 12 race. Came favored in that one after training forwardly for her return, and without much early pace in here, she’s going to be prominent from the bell. Let’s start the day off with a winner. – Marty McGee |
Race 1
| Pyrite Smokin |
| There was a time when this mare was capable of showing up with a competitive performance at this level of competition, but you have to go back a long way to find the last time she recorded a victory, and she hasn't finished 1-2 from 12 starts over this turf course. |
| Fives and Nines |
ARCADIA, Calif. – Tom’s Tribute was a game second in the Grade 2 Arcadia Stakes over a mile on turf at Santa Anita on Feb. 1, his stakes debut against older horses. He may be even better when he makes his Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $350,000 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf.
The 4-year-old Tom’s Tribute impressed jockey Gary Stevens and trainer Jim Cassidy with his training in February.
“Gary said the colt has moved up five or six lengths,” Cassidy said on Monday. “Gary worked the horse every time since he ran. If the horse doesn’t run good, I’ll blame it on him.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Most of the attention Saturday in the Grade 2, $250,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap will be focused on Palace Malice and Itsmyluckyday, two of the major players on last year’s Triple Crown trail. Both will launch their 4-year-old campaigns in the race.
But the horse to beat could be another member of last year’s Triple Crown crop, Falling Sky, who already has turned in a couple of big efforts over the track this winter, including a 5 1/2-length triumph in the seven-furlong Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship on Feb. 8.
Cast in Silver was made one of the 23 individual interests in last week’s Kentucky Oaks Future Wager after she won her debut by 5 1/2 lengths here on Feb. 14. She makes her second start Thursday in a $50,000 optional claimer at one mile.
Cast in Silver earned an 86 Beyer Speed Figure in her debut at six furlongs, a better number than Eclipse Award winner She’s a Tiger has achieved.
Plans are fluid for Sunbean, who won his fourth straight race and his eighth from 13 career starts when he captured the Star Guitar Stakes by almost three lengths Saturday.
Sunbean, 7 for 7 in Louisiana-bred stakes competition, will be nominated to the March 29 New Orleans Handicap, but trainer Ron Faucheux is more inclined to bide his time than rush Sunbean back into action.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Neither Chris Kay, the New York Racing Association’s chief executive and president, nor Martin Panza, NYRA’s senior vice president of racing operations, was at Aqueduct for Saturday’s first meaningful card of 2014, featuring the Grade 3, $500,000 Gotham Stakes – the second-richest race of the winter/spring meet – and two other graded stakes.