Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:52

Gulfstream Park: Mucho Mas Macho looks to time his run in The Vid

By Mary Rampellini
Courtney Heeney
Juan Leyva guides Mucho Mas Macho to a 40-1 upset in the Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale.

Timing is everything with Mucho Mas Macho, who will start as one of the most accomplished runners in the $100,000 The Vid at Gulfstream Park on Monday.

“What he needs is a headsy ride,” said Henry Collazo, who trains the horse for Signal Hill Farms. “He’s got a quarter-mile explosive run.”

Mucho Mas Macho can be dangerous when his kick is able to be unleashed at the right time. He was 41-1 when he got up for a neck win in the Grade 2 Fort Lauderdale at Gulfstream in January. Into the lane, Mucho Mas Macho had just one horse beat in the 1 1/16-mile turf race.

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:37

Del Mar: Halo Dolly heads into Yellow Ribbon running too well to retire

By Steve Andersen
Benoit & Associates
Halo Dolly, with Rafael Bejarano aboard, wins the $150,000 Solana Beach Handicap on Sunday for the third straight year.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Halo Dolly, a nine-time stakes winner, has become such a fixture in trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s stable that he is having second thoughts of sending her to a sale in Kentucky this fall.

Hollendorfer said he thinks Halo Dolly can add to her accomplished record in races such as Monday’s $150,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Del Mar – and into next year.

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:34

Woodward: Mucho Macho Man scratches, will race in California

By Mike Welsch
Barbara D. Livingston
Mucho Macho Man will prep for the Breeders' Cup in the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Kathy Ritvo shrugged her shoulders and said “there’s nothing you can do about the weather” during training hours on Saturday morning and several hours later did as expected, scratching Mucho Macho Man from the Grade 1 Woodward due a racetrack turned to a sea of slop by heavy, overnight rains.

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:30

Golden Gate Fields: Firmer turf for Rolling Green may help Eagle Screams

By Chuck Dybdal
Victor Fierros/Vassar Photography
Hudson Landing is using a six-furlong allowance sprint on Friday as a prep for a repeat attempt at the Grade 3 San Francisco Mile.

There are four stakes winners entered in Monday’s $50,000 Rolling Green Stakes at Golden Gate Fields, but even the two non-stakes winners merit consideration as value plays.

Eagle Screams, a 4-year-old making his stakes debut, will undoubtedly be the longest shot in the six-horse field even though he’s coming off a game victory in a first-level optional claimer at Santa Rosa. He’s 2 for 5 on turf, but 0 for 3 locally.

Trainer Gil Matos said the short field and the lack of other races locally until October prompted his decision.

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:17

Parx Racing: Uncaptured must overcome post 10 in Smarty Jones

By Marty McGee
Michael Burns
Uncaptured, winning the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, will not be pointed to the $500,000 Breeders' at Woodbine on Aug. 18.

Nothing has come easy this year for Uncaptured. The 2012 Horse of the Year in Canada lost four straight races to start his 3-year-old campaign, and after defeating Ontario-breds in the Prince of Wales Stakes, Uncaptured will be sternly tested again Monday as one of the logical favorites in the $350,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Parx Racing in suburban Philadelphia.

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:09

Ellis Park: Big Town will use his speed in Cliff Guilliams Handicap

By Marty McGee

When Tim Glyshaw was trying to go out on his own as a Thoroughbred trainer in 2004, he caught a break when a racing writer and chart-caller named Cliff Guilliams recommended Glyshaw to horse owners he knew.

“It was my first horse,” said Glyshaw, who until that point had worked for years as an assistant to Bob Holthus. “It didn’t matter that I could outrun the horse. I was in the game because of Cliff.”

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 14:01

Assiniboia Downs: Golden Stripe on the rail for Matron

By Bill Tallon

Golden Stripe, entering off an easy win in the one-mile Distaff for Manitoba-breds, will be looking to come right back when she faces six other fillies and mares in the 1 1/8-mile Matron at Assiniboia Downs on Monday.

A win or a second-place finish in the $50,000 Matron would push Golden Stripe past $300,000 in career earnings for her owner/breeder Phil Kives.

Sat, 08/31/2013 - 13:20

Will Take Charge's jockey accused by rival trainer of using electrical device in Travers

By David Grening
Barbara D. Livingtston
Will Take Charge (left) edges Moreno at the wire of the Travers Stakes. Moreno's connections have accused Will Take Charge's jockey, Luis Saez, of using an electronic device during the race.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The connections of Travers second-place finisher Moreno filed a complaint Friday with the New York State Gaming Commission alleging that Luis Saez, the rider of Travers winner Will Take Charge, used an electrical device on his horse during the running of the race.

Will Take Charge got up in the final jump of the Travers to beat Moreno by a nose.

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