ELMONT, N.Y. – His 3-year-old campaign started in January and has included stops at six tracks in four states. It certainly doesn’t appear that schedule has taken a toll on Palace Malice.
More Than Even won her fourth consecutive race when she wired the field in Friday night’s $50,000 Te Ata at Remington Park. The seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies was one of two stakes on the card. The $50,000 Tishomingo was won by My Brother Don.
Both stakes were restricted to Oklahoma-breds, with the Tishomingo for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs.
POMONA, Calif. – Conkate restored a semblance of normalcy on a day of upsets at the Los Angeles County Fair meet by winning the $50,000 Bangles and Beads Stakes for filly and mare sprinters and returning $7.60 as the second betting choice.
It was tougher in other races.
Tonight at Eleven paid a meet-high $110.20 winning race 5; the $2 daily double to race-6 upset winner Suances Flower ($37.40) returned $1,063.
At least somebody won those bets. Horseplayers were unsuccessful in four other wagers, creating a carryover feast into Saturday.
The New York State Gaming Commission and the New York Racing Association on Friday announced enhanced security measures for next Saturday’s $1 million Jockey Club Gold, protocols similar to what were put in place earlier this year for the Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes.
Allen Milligan, the 47-year-old trainer who won the recent title at Lone Star Park, had heart bypass surgery Monday and is doing well, according to his wife, Jeanette Hughes-Milligan.
Hughes-Milligan said her husband was found to have blockages in some of his arteries after going in for a routine doctor’s appointment. He had a double bypass procedure and was expected to be released from Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Texas, as early as Sunday.
“He came through it well,” Hughes-Milligan said. “He’s doing good. He’s watching races, watching the horses run.”
AUBURN, Wash. – With the 75-day meeting winding down to its final few days, some horses have already been shipped out for winter campaigns in Oregon, California, or Arizona. Others, such as recent stakes winner Madame Pele, are still stabled at Emerald Downs but have simply run out of races.
ARCADIA, Calif. – A foot injury that has kept Caracortado from racing for nearly 20 months appears to be in the past.
Next Friday at Santa Anita, trainer Mike Machowsky will learn whether the 6-year-old gelding can regain the form that led to five stakes wins. Caracortado will be entered in Friday’s Grade 3 Eddie D Stakes over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course on the opening day of the track’s autumn meeting. A win could lead to a start in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint here Nov. 2.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Discreet Force got the better of Make the Moment after a spirited stretch battle in a first-level allowance race for New York-breds at Belmont Park on June 23.
Sunday, the two 3-year-old fillies will hook up again in the day’s featured race, a $77,000 second-level allowance for New York-bred fillies and mares, 3 years old and up, going six furlongs at Belmont.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The 2013 Hastings meet is coming to a close in just over three weeks and the closing-day card on Canadian Thanksgiving, Oct. 14, should be a good one with four stakes races on the menu. The main course will be the Grade 3, $100,000 Premiers for 3-year-olds and up going 1 3/8 miles, and Title Contender is expected to take on a strong field of older horses. Title Contender won the Grade 3 Ohio Derby and is coming off a convincing win in the Grade 3 British Columbia Derby. Complementing the Premiers is the Grade 3 Ballerina for fillies and mares.
