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.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Kiri’s Gal looks like the one they will have to catch in a $17,500 claiming race for 3-year-old fillies that headlines the last Friday evening card at Hastings this year. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint drew six horses and goes as race 7 on an eight-race card that begins at 7:15 p.m. Pacific.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The versatile mare Best Gift of All will go back to Polytrack on Friday at Woodbine in the featured eighth race, a 1 1/16-mile allowance for Ontario-sired females.
Best Gift of All, who wintered in Florida with trainer Katerina Vassilieva, was a troubled fourth in her first appearance of the meet in an allowance on grass June 12. She subsequently beat nonwinners-of-two Ontario-sired allowance opposition traveling 1 1/16 miles on Polytrack.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – Eddie Broome hopes the “Party” continues Friday afternoon at Monmouth Park.
Broome has his fingers crossed as the talented but fragile Partyallnightlong launches his latest comeback. A 6-year-old, Partyallnightlong makes only his second start in the last two years in a $46,000 third-level allowance that is also open to $50,000 claimers going six furlongs.
BOSSIER CITY, La. – For something as modest sounding as an entry-level optional $12,500 claimer, Friday’s featured seventh race at Louisiana Downs came up awfully interesting . . . and bettable. A field of nine fillies and mares will dash five furlongs over the turf.
The owners of a food truck who were ejected from the grounds of Saratoga Race Course because of a racially tinged term in the food truck’s name have filed a federal lawsuit against the New York Racing Association alleging a violation of First Amendment rights.
