ARCADIA, Calif. – Tap It Rich ran so well winning his debut at Santa Anita on Oct. 12 and worked so sharply into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, that he was sent off as the second choice in that race. But his inexperience, at which he had hinted in his training, betrayed him on the day, when he finished fifth behind four more experienced horses, including his Bob Baffert-trained stablemate, New Year’s Day, who won the Juvenile at 10-1.
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Tue, 12/10/2013 - 15:40
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Streaming and Taste Like Candy, the first two finishers in the Hollywood Starlet Stakes last Saturday, could have a rematch in the $300,000 Las Virgenes Stakes for 3-year-old fillies over a mile at Santa Anita on Feb. 1.
After Saturday’s race, trainer Bob Baffert said he would like to keep Streaming in Grade 1 races in early 2014. The Las Virgenes is the first of two Grade 1 races for 3-year-old fillies at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting. The $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks will be run April 5.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Boat Trip, a 4-year-old Harlan’s Holiday colt, made the most of the final seasons of Betfair Hollywood Park.
The track will close permanently at the end of the meeting Dec. 22, and Boat Trip is going out a winner. He won Sunday’s $100,000 Hollywood Turf Express over six furlongs on grass by a half-length over No Silent, Chips All In, and Unbridled’s Note, who finished second in a triple dead heat.
An interesting rivalry appears to be developing at Golden Gate Fields heading into 2014. Exit Stage Left, who is 2 for 2 with two stakes victories after winning the one-mile Gold Rush Stakes last Saturday, Gold Rush runner-up Argyle Cut, and third-place finisher Rockford all are looking at the $100,000 California Derby on Jan. 18 for their next start.
Exit Stage Left is a New Jersey-bred colt purchased by Mark DeDomenico and Jerry Hollendorfer for $100,000 at the March Barretts sale.
“He worked well,” Hollendorfer said, explaining the purchase.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – More than a month after finishing eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita, Poker Player is being sent back to California for Saturday’s $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Trainer Wayne Catalano said Tuesday that Poker Player will be shipped from Florida for the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity over 1 1/16 miles. The CashCall is run on a synthetic track, which holds significant appeal for Catalano and his clients, Gary and Mary West.
Race 1
| Socialsaul |
| Not a good sign that his 1st race off the claim produced a career-low Beyer speed figure; the dull effort was in his return to AQU Main in a race he may have needed off a 50-day layoff; is winless on AQU Inner dirt but owns a career-Top Beyer here when stakes placed December, 2012; back to reality in a race where he can be claimed from; July 5th-place finish saw the runner-up Beyer 93 in his next-out S |
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Ullapool, dominant winner of Saturday’s $100,000 Garland of Roses Stakes, will head to south Florida this week and make her next start in the $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Sprint at Gulfstream on Jan. 18, trainer Eddie Kenneally said Monday.
The Florida Sunshine Millions is a series of races restricted to Florida-breds.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Coming off a solid showing at the Aqueduct fall meet, trainer Nick Esler hopes to build on the momentum and expand his business during Aqueduct’s winter meet, which begins with Wednesday’s opening of the inner-track meet.
Esler, 31, had a record of 4-2-2 from 11 starts during Aqueduct’s fall session, his best performance since going out on his own in spring 2012. He currently has 11 horses in his care in Belmont Park’s barn 5, but he’s “looking to fill up the empty stalls,” he said.