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Trainer Stanley Roberts was taken to a Bossier City, La., hospital Thursday afternoon following an accident in the Louisiana Downs paddock. Roberts was saddling Ollie Baby for the day’s fourth race with the horse flipped in his stall, injuring Roberts.
Jockey agent Ronald Ardoin, who accompanied Roberts to the hospital, said Roberts was had considerable pain in the neck area but had responded to sedation. Roberts was undergoing X-rays shortly before 4 p.m. local time.
Saturday’s Lone Star Park allowance feature at a mile on turf has all the makings of a good, old-fashioned Texas shootout.
In one corner is Coyote Legend, a 17-time winner who does not appear to have lost a step, having won three of his last four starts. In the other is Skip a Smile, who has won 11 times, including his last two in stakes company over the winter at Sam Houston.
The two biggest names in Texas racing train the pair. Bret Calhoun conditions Coyote Legend while all-time Lone Star training leader Steve Asmussen trains Skip a Smile.
Amanecer de Oro, last seen chasing the pace in the Grade 3 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn Park last month before coming up empty in the drive, returns to his favorite oval Saturday, as he leads a quality group of allowance sprinters in the featured race at Louisiana Downs.
The six-furlong race drew a field of seven and carries a $25,000 purse, with another $5,000 available to accredited Louisiana-breds.
Sweet Emma Rose might be a filly taking on colts in the $100,000 Rollicking, but she brings the flashiest form into the five-furlong sprint for 2-year-olds. The race is one of seven stakes on the Preakness card Saturday at Pimlico.
Sweet Emma Rose made her debut at Keeneland on April 5 and romped by nine lengths in a maiden special weight. She broke on top in the 4 1/2-furlong race and increased her margin at every call to deliver as the odds-on favorite. In the Rollicking, Sweet Emma Rose will attempt to transfer that good form to dirt, as the maiden score came on Polytrack.
Heat Press, whose name had been bandied about as a potential Preakness starter, instead will make his turf debut on the Preakness undercard in the $100,000 James W. Murphy. The one-mile race for 3-year-olds drew a field of 11, including multiple stakes winner Notacatbutallama, who invades from Belmont Park for Repole Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher.
Delaware Park’s opening-day feature on Saturday, the one-mile Our Mims Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, drew 14 horses, so it was split into two $50,000 divisions of seven on a card of eight races for Thoroughbreds and one for Arabians. Entries for the nine races closed with 70 total horses.
Based on her form in races beyond six furlongs, My Sonata is the logical choice in the first division (race 6). Her task became easier when the connections of Petit Trianon, who is 3 for 3 this season, chose to run in Friday's Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico.
BALTIMORE - Frank Carulli received a rousing round of applause at the Preakness draw at Pimlico on Wednesday, when he revealed his final set of morning-line odds for the second leg of the Triple Crown. Carulli has been the oddsmaker and racing analyst for Pimlico and Laurel since 2002, but he will vacate his post at the end of June to move to Las Vegas.
“I’m semi-retired, I guess you could say,” said Carulli, 51.
It would be an understatement to say that the early pace of the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes, which goes as the sixth race on the Preakness undercard, figures to be quick. Check out the zip possessed by some of those in this six-furlong event for 3-year-olds:
◗ Bobcat Jim shook loose through an opening quarter in 21.51 seconds when nosed in Oaklawn’s Bachelor Stakes last time out.
◗ Brave Dave was in command through opening splits of 21.25 and 44.69 when second in the Big Drama Stakes at Calder most recently.
BALTIMORE - Southern California-based trainer Doug O’Neill’s approach to this year’s Preakness with Goldencents follows some of the same stabling protocol he used last year with winner I’ll Have Another. He has had a 12-horse division at Pimlico Race Course since the Monday following the Kentucky Derby, a move made to simulate home for Goldencents.
“I wanted to have him settled in, where it’s as close to home as can be,” O’Neill. said