DEL MAR, Calif. - Midnight Lucky, winner of the Grade 1 Acorn at Belmont Park earlier this year, will not race again as a 3-year-old owing to bone bruising, her trainer, Bob Baffert, said Monday morning.
“She got jammed up, wasn’t moving right,” Baffert said.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Roger Attfield’s eight wins in the Breeders’ Stakes have come with horses of varying backgrounds.
There were the dominant winners With Approval, Izvestia, and Peteski, who all completed Canadian Triple Crown sweeps as odds-on favorites. There were the fillies Carotene, Pinafore Park, Free Vacation, and Sweetest Thing, who all defeated males in the 1 1/2-mile turf race.
And, most recently, there was Perfect Shower, who was coming off a $25,000 maiden-claiming win and took the Breeders’ at 46-1.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Irish Mission, a dual Canadian champion last year, heads the $100,000 Flaming Page Stakes on Wednesday night at Woodbine. She also is nominated to Sunday’s Grade 2 Sky Classic Stakes and could bypass the Flaming Page, a 1 1/2-mile turf marathon in which she should be an odds-on favorite if she starts.
“We haven’t made up our minds yet,” said Mark Frostad, who trains the lanky chestnut Irish Mission for owner Robert Evans.
AUBURN, Wash. – Worldventurer rolled to a surprisingly easy victory Sunday in the $65,000 Emerald Downs Derby, taking advantage of a blazing early pace to cruise past a trio of tiring front-runners en route to a seven-length victory. He ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:49.79 and paid $7.80.
DEL MAR, Calif. – No one hit the pick six Sunday at Del Mar, leading to a carryover of $255,708 when racing resumes Wednesday.
There were 11 horses in Sunday's final race, and eight were covered. But one of the uncovered runners, 35-1 Tiz Dynamic, prevailed to cause a Sunday-to-Wednesday carryover for the fourth straight week. Based on what happened this past week, expect close to $1.5 million to be added to the pool Wednesday.
The favored Hirschy ($5), making his second start in 10 days, sat back early before powering to his second straight victory in the $64,300 Cavonnier Juvenile at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Sunday.
Just as he had in his debut, Hirschy settled nicely behind the pacesetting Luck Lasts in the six-furlong stakes race for 2-year-olds. He was fifth in the field of six as Luck Lasts set splits of 23.01 seconds, 46.48, and 59.55 while being pressed by Tupelo Cush.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Tiz Flirtatious has steadily progressed into one of the elite female turf runners in the country, and her breathtaking performance Sunday in the Grade 2, $250,000 John Mabee Stakes at Del Mar surely stamped her as one of the top contenders for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf this fall.
Cat's Holiday went from last to first to win the $75,000 Malvern Rose Stakes by 4 3/4 lengths at Presque Isle Downs on Sunday evening.
Jockey Mario Pino kept his mount at the back of the pack of six Pennsylvania-bred 3-year-old fillies early in the race. Pino edged the Graham Motion-trained Cat's Holiday toward the front and took her to the rail entering the far turn. Pino angled his mount out into the stretch, and she exploded when asked, finishing the 1 1/16-mile race over the Tapeta surface in 1:45.83.
No Spin was always prominent for a 2 3/4-length win over Treacherous in the $100,000 Arapahoe Park Classic on Sunday. It was another 1 1/4 lengths back to No It Ain’t in third.
The Classic, a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up, was doubled in value last month due to an increase in handle at Arapahoe, the Aurora, Colo., track that closes out its season next weekend.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – Flay Mignon scored a front-running victory Sunday in the $78,000 Colleen Stakes on the turf at Monmouth Park.
The Colleen is the prep for the meet’s top stakes for 2-year-old fillies, $100,000 Sorority on Sept. 1. Unlike the Colleen, the Sorority is contested on dirt at six furlongs.
It was the third victory of the day for the meet-leading team of trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. and jockey Paco Lopez.
“It’s been a good day,” Plesa said. “It’s been a good meet.”
