Jeannie Cook, a former exercise rider at Finger Lakes and daughter of retired jockey Robert Cook, finished second in a race for Arabians held last weekend at Newbury Racecourse in the United Kingdom.
The one-mile race for amateur female riders was part of an eight-race world-wide series for the 2013 HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship. The winners of each leg will advance to the finals in November in Abu Dhabi.
The tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., at almost 200 miles an hour Monday claimed not only the lives of more than 20 adults and children, but it also wiped out the Celestial Acres Training Center, home to both Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse operations, killing scores of horses.
The training center was in the direct path of the storm, bordering the southern part of Oklahoma City.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Patrick Husbands, who will be turning 40 on Wednesday, remained in a hospital on Tuesday after undergoing surgery the previous evening for broken bones suffered in a spill Monday at Woodbine.
The jockey was injured when his mount, A Tough Buck, collapsed just past the finish line in Monday’s fifth race.
“He’ll be out three to four months,” said jockey agent Gary Kemplen, who represents Husbands. “He fractured his tibia, and broke some other small bones in his leg.”
Coming out of a respectable fourth in the Westchester Stakes, Big Screen will get some class relief in Thursday’s $81,000 allowance/optional claiming feature.
Carded as race 2, the one-mile race with third-level conditions attracted four other older males, including 2012 Excelsior winner Marilyn’s Guy; Summer Sunset, who has won or placed in 7 of 8 starts since being claimed last spring; and Forward March, a $2 million colt who relished the slop here last June for Shug McGaughey.
Trainer Phil Gleaves returned to his native England earlier this month following the death of his father, but he’ll be back in Miami to saddle his top handicap performer, Csaba, in Saturday’s $75,000 Memorial Day Handicap.
Csaba has been idle since having his four-race winning streak snapped when finishing fifth in the Grade 1 Donn Handicap on Feb. 9. Gleaves had planned on blowing out Csaba for the Memorial Day Handicap on Tuesday, but was forced to scrap those plans after the track was inundated by rain the previous day and throughout the night.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Handicapping puzzles will be solved Thursday at Betfair Hollywood Park, where key starters throughout the card will be attempting something new – to launch careers, switch surfaces, change distances, and return from layoffs.
Well-regarded juveniles debut in race 2, a probable winner in race 3 will try grass, and the pacesetter in race 5 – Sweet Assay – has never run two turns. In race 7, juvenile graded stakes winners from last year try to resurrect their careers.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The gelding at the center of a rescinded claim because of unsoundness at Betfair Hollywood Park last Sunday emerged from the race without injury, trainer Bill Spawr said on Tuesday.
Plenny of Henny won Sunday’s first race and was claimed for $10,000 from Spawr by trainer Ted H. West. When Plenny of Henny was ruled to be unsound in the backstretch test barn after the race by state veterinarian Tim Grande, the claim was rescinded through a new rule enacted on May 16 by the California Horse Racing Board.
2013 Racing Dates
June 1 - November 2 
Post Time: 12:45 p.m. ET (Mon, Wed, Sat thru 7/6; Tuesdays added after thru Oct. 5)
Handicapping Information
Horses competing in the June 8 Belmont Stakes will be subject to out-of-competition blood testing and 24-hour security beginning three days before the race, but will be allowed to remain in their own barn as part of security measures announced Tuesday by racing authorities.
It’s important for trainers to have a Plan B just in case Plan A doesn’t work out.
Trainer Billy Morey had to fall back on Plan B with Positive Response, and he’s feeling confident going into Monday’s Grade 3, $100,000 All American at 1 1/16 miles over the Golden Gate Fields Tapeta main track.
Positive Response is the sorta-kinda defending champ. He was first under the wire in last year’s Memorial Day stakes, the Berkeley. But he was disqualified and placed fourth.
