SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Between them, they’ve won 43 races and earned more than $2.7 million, but in 106 combined starts, the paths of New York-bred sprint champion Saginaw and graded stakes winner Caixa Eletronica have never crossed.
On Friday, the two popular veterans finally will get an opportunity to meet in a seven-furlong starter-allowance, optional-claiming race that also drew 15-time winner Bernie the Maestro.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Owner Paul Reddam is paying extra to get his fillies Concave and Sprouts in Saturday’s $300,000 Del Mar Debutante.
When entries were taken Wednesday, the Reddam-owned fillies were supplemented for $10,000 to the Grade 1 race for 2-year-old fillies over seven furlongs. They have already paid their way.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The value of Hip No. 69 at the upcoming Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s yearling and mixed sale went up considerably when her full brother Neverabettercause rallied to edge Andallthatitmeans in the $50,000 CTHS Sales Stakes at Hastings last Friday.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Marshall Faulk has gone from the Colts to a colt. One of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League, first with the Indianapolis Colts and then the St. Louis Rams, Faulk is one of the owners of Infinite Magic, who is scheduled to run Sunday in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby. If Infinite Magic is half as good at racing as Faulk was at football, this investment will be a touchdown.
AUBURN, Wash. – Southern Solution, a speedy sprinter making his first start around two turns, looms the horse to catch and beat Friday in the feature race at Emerald Downs. A $15,000 claimer for 3-year-olds at one mile, the feature is the sixth race on a seven-race program beginning at 6:45 p.m. Pacific.
Lasting Bubbles had been intended for a start in the Grade 3 Gardenia earlier this month at Ellis Park, but her schedule was disrupted and she has instead shipped to Remington Park for Friday night’s $50,000 Ricks Memorial.
The Ricks, a one-mile turf race for fillies and mares, drew a field of 10, including Soonerette, winner of last year’s Oklahoma Classics Turf Distaff at Remington, and Satin Gold, a June allowance winner at Lone Star Park.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Delegation was booked on a flight to Churchill Downs on Wednesday after finishing sixth in last Sunday’s Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar.
After chasing Game On Dude throughout the 1 1/4-mile Pacific Classic, Delegation weakened in the closing yards and was beaten just 1 1/4 lengths for second money under rider Luis Contreras.
“The only way I think anybody could have beaten Game On Dude was if they let us run on the turf course and he ran on the main track,” trainer Mark Casse said.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Del Mar racing officials planned to meet Wednesday afternoon to review a discrepancy in the final time of the $1 million Pacific Classic last Sunday.
Race winner Game On Dude was given an official time of 2:00.69 for the 1 1/4-mile race on a Polytrack synthetic surface. But track timer Russ Hudak hand-timed the race in 1:59.96, and Trakus, a horse-tracking system used at Del Mar, recorded a final time of 1:59.26.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Acting Naughty has been a source of both joy and frustration for trainer Don MacRae.
On Saturday, Acting Naughty will look to be on MacRae’s good side when she runs in the seven-furlong Seaway Stakes, a Grade 3 race for fillies and mares that is worth $150,000.
Acting Naughty, a 4-year-old filly whom MacRae claimed for $40,000 here in September 2011, became a stakes winner when making her 2013 debut in the Grade 3 Whimsical at six furlongs and captured the seven-furlong Sweet Briar Too in her third start of the meeting.
Far Niente, the winner of last Sunday’s $232,900 Golden State Derby at Los Alamitos, has more career wins than his trainer, Jose Hernandez Jr.
Far Niente won for the sixth time in 10 starts in the Golden State Derby. For the 31-year-old Hernandez, Far Niente’s win was the fourth of his training career, which began earlier this year.
