The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has been conducting an “expanded” review of the records of horses that have died at Saratoga Racecourse this year and will share the results of the review publicly, the organization said Thursday.
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Piroli went from a career-best performance when second in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita on May 29 to the worst luck of his career when he finished a troubled fourth in an allowance race at Del Mar on July 30.
The allowance race served as a prep for a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Sept. 2, even though the three-length loss was more eventful than trainer Michael McCarthy would have preferred.
After stumbling at the start, Piroli closed from last of nine with a sustained wide run.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The hope is jockey Luis Saez will miss only three to five weeks after suffering a dislocated right collarbone and fractured left wrist as the result of a spill in which he was involved during the running of Wednesday’s $135,000 John’s Call Stakes at Saratoga, according to his agent, Kiaran McLaughlin.
Saez will not need to undergo surgery, McLaughlin said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Flavien Prat will ride Mage in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes, according to part-owner Ramiro Restrepo.
Prat replaces Luis Saez, who suffered a dislocated right collarbone and a fractured wrist during the running of Wednesday’s $135,000 John’s Call Stakes. Saez rode Burning Bright, who suffered a fatal cardiovascular collapse entering the first turn of the turf race, unseating Saez.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Jockey Luis Saez suffered a dislocated right collarbone and slight fracture of his left wrist as the result of a spill in which he was involved during the running of Wednesday’s $135,000 John’s Call Stakes at Saratoga, according to his agent Kiaran McLaughlin.
It was not immediately known how much time he will miss.
Saez had been booked to ride Kentucky Derby winner Mage in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes, but will definitely miss that assignment. Flavien Prat has been named as Saez's replacement aboard Mage.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Eclipse Award winners Goodnight Olive and Echo Zulu, who finished first and second in last November’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, will square off again in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina Handicap, among the highlights of the Travers Day undercard.
Echo Zulu, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2021, has won eight of 10 career starts. She comes in off a monster 7 1/4-length victory in the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap here on July 26 for which she earned a career-best 112 Beyer Speed Figure.
Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn., has canceled the race card scheduled for tonight due to higher than forecasted temperatures, the track said just hours before first post.
Canterbury had already pushed the first post for the eight-race card from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. because of an excessive heat forecast, but conditions worsened in the afternoon. The track said in a release that the new forecasts "could make racing dangerous to both horses and people that work outdoors.”
With 10 wins from 33 starters, trainer Peter Eurton is in the midst of his best Del Mar summer meeting, a level of success that was unexpected.
“No. Not at all,” he said on Wednesday. “No way.”
Through Wednesday, Eurton, 66, was tied for third in the standings with Peter Miller, trailing leader Phil D’Amato (15) and Bob Baffert (12). Eurton had won with 30.3 percent of his starters, second only to Baffert’s 33 percent from 36 starters among the 10 leading trainers.
Trainer Nevada Litfin has been handed a summary suspension by the Canterbury Park board of stewards for conduct detrimental to racing, according to a ruling posted by the Minnesota Racing Commission on Wednesday.
Litfin was cited for an Aug. 16 incident. During the suspension of his license, he is denied access to Minnesota tracks, pending a hearing.
The ruling reads that Litfin “was observed by commission security engaging in acts detrimental to the integrity of racing.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The presence of Arcangelo in Saturday’s 154th Travers Stakes at Saratoga elicits memories of his sire, Arrogate, and what he did in this same race seven years ago.
An unknown quantity to many before that day, Arrogate announced himself to the world as a rare talent with a record-setting, 13 1/2-length victory in Saratoga’s marquee event. He ran 1 1/4 miles in 1:59.36, the fastest time at that distance at this historic venue which began racing in 1863.