INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Shared Belief, unbeaten winner of Sunday’s $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes, will get a distance test in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Betfair Hollywood Park on Dec. 14.
Shared Belief may go favored in the Grade 1 race over 1 1/16 miles.
“As long as the horse is good, we’ll try it,” trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Monday. “I think we’d be foolish not to consider it. He ran a really good race. He likes Hollywood.”
Groupie Doll, purchased for $3.1 million by Mandy Pope a few days after winning her second straight Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, has settled in at Belmont in preparation for another try in the Nov. 30 Cigar Mile, a Grade 1 race she lost in heart-breaking fashion last year to Stay Thirsty.
Groupie Doll had her first trip to the track Sunday morning, jogging a mile and galloping a mile over the training track.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A few more like that, and Almost Famous might be more than “almost.” The 2-year-old colt blew away what appeared to be a very competitive field of allowance routers Saturday at Churchill Downs, leading Pat Byrne to already start working backward from the 2014 Kentucky Derby.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Prospective fields are coming up deep for the twin 3-year-old stakes that will anchor the only Downs After Dark card of the fall meet Saturday.
Likely for the Grade 2, $175,000 Mrs. Revere Stakes for fillies are Allegheny Angel, Always Kitten, Dance Again, E B Ryder, Frivolous, Praia, Remember Then, and Tapicat.
The male counterpart, the Grade 3, $100,000 Commonwealth Turf, is expected to get Dorsett, Formidable Heart, Frac Daddy, General Election, Golden Sabre, Kaigun, Moro Tap, River Seven, Ruler of Love, War Dancer, and Winning Cause.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Believe You Can, the 2012 Kentucky Oaks winner who has not raced since finishing last in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park in late May, is being pointed to a return in the Grade 2, $150,000 Falls City Handicap on Nov. 28, the traditional Thanksgiving Day feature here.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Gia Scala, a maiden winner at seven furlongs in her second career start for trainer Ralph Biamonte, is scheduled to make her stakes debut in the $125,000 South Ocean here Nov. 24.
Owned by the Beclawat Stable of Les Pereira, Gia Scala had finished an encouraging fourth in her six-furlong debut here Oct. 12 before stalking the pace en route to a neck victory under jockey Patrick Husbands on Oct. 27.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Heading into last Saturday’s $125,000 Frost King Stakes, trainer Ralph Biamonte had been concerned about his Flashy Margaritta’s ability to stay seven furlongs. But after watching the 2-year-old gelding lead throughout for a 1 1/2-length victory under Patrick Husbands, Biamonte was pleased to acknowledge that his fears had been unfounded.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Broadway Empire, ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 1, will run in the $200,000 Zia Park Derby in New Mexico on Nov. 23, trainer Robertino Diodoro said Sunday.
Broadway Empire won three stakes at Northlands Park in Canada and Remington Park in Oklahoma before the loss in the BC Dirt Mile. On Nov. 1, Broadway Empire was second to eventual winner Goldencents for six furlongs but faded in the final furlong.
Diodoro said Broadway Empire was transferred to his stable at Turf Paradise last Friday and will be based there for another two weeks.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Dance With Fate, who was second in two Grade 1 races before finishing eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2, will have an early 2014 campaign geared toward synthetic-track races.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – After winning two sprint stakes this fall, Bajan will make her debut around two turns in the $500,000 Hollywood Starlet Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park on Dec. 7.
On Saturday, Bajan won the longest race of her career in the $100,000 Moccasin Stakes for 2-year-old fillies over seven furlongs, leaving trainer Simon Callaghan with the impression that the Grade 1 Starlet over 1 1/16 miles is suitable.
