HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Titletown Five ran the biggest race of his career at Churchill Downs, and he is headed there for his next start, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Tuesday. The horse is being pointed for the Grade 3, $175,000 Derby Trial, a one-turn mile for 3-year-olds April 27.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Eleven 3-year-olds have been entered for the opening-day feature at the Keeneland spring meet, the $100,000 Transylvania Stakes, a Grade 3 turf race in which Fire Guard and Jack Milton figure among the top contenders in a well-matched field Friday.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Although interest in the Santa Anita pick six has waned in the last five years, there is nothing like a carryover to generate buzz the first day of the racing week.
The pick six Thursday begins with an $88,542 carryover from $165,746 wagered on the bet Easter Sunday. The pots were bigger five years ago – the pick six on Easter in 2008 (March 23) handled $295,253.
Bettors on Thursday could wager a half-million dollars or more into the pick six (races 3-8), which includes a potential single in race 7.
Maryland horsemen will get three extra weeks to chase richer purses during the spring meet that opens Thursday at Pimlico.
Unlike the recent past, when the Preakness Stakes on the third Saturday in May marked closing day, Pimlico has expanded from 29 to 36 racing days. That stretches the meet to June 8, which coincides with the running of the last leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes. The longer meet also allows Pimlico to be open for the Memorial Day holiday.
With the return to turf racing this week, entries are up at Golden Gate Fields.
And Sunday’s first turf stakes race of the year, the $50,000-added Golden Poppy, should have a good-sized field. The 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares attracted 23 nominees.
Among those expected to run are the turf-loving multiple stakes winner Halo Dolly and her Jerry Hollendorfer-trained stablemate Lady Aspen, who has won two straight over the turf here.
Central Heat and Koby Jo also are considered probable for the race.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Until this year, jockey Kevin Krigger has wanted nothing to do with Churchill Downs on the first Saturday of May.
“I’ve avoided Derby Day,” he said. “I didn’t want to be there unless I was riding the race.”
Krigger may get his wish to attend America’s biggest race this year. He is the regular rider of Goldencents, the two-time stakes winner who starts as a contender in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on Saturday. A win or second by Goldencents will have Krigger booking a trip to Louisville, Ky., for the Kentucky Derby.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Jane Cibelli and owner Goodwood Racing Ltd. were deprived of a lucrative payday when their Swear Me In was disqualified from first and placed third following her apparent victory in Sunday’s Secret Grace Stakes. On Thursday, Cibelli and Goodwood will attempt to get back some of that lost swag when they send out Busted Again as the likely favorite against just five foes in a $62,100 optional-claiming race that serves as the main event on the penultimate program of the 2012-13 Gulfstream Park season.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Five evenly matched fillies and mares square off at Aqueduct in Thursday’s $75,000 Break Through overnight stakes at six furlongs.
Carlos Martin will have the strength-in-numbers angle working in his favor, as the Brooklyn-born trainer sends out the uncoupled duo of D’princess and Promise Me a Cat.
Six Votes was overlooked in the wagering at 11-1 when he took on six rivals here last Friday in a $12,500 claimer.
He was plenty fresh.
Six Votes was making his first start since Sept. 24, 2011, which in turn was his first start since Oct. 28, 2010. That makes three starts in almost 2 1/2 years, separated by 11 months and 1 1/2 years.
Ridden by Francisco Duran, Six Votes held off odds-on favorite Stone Hot in a stretch-long duel and wound up winning a three-way photo over Stone Hot and Traweek.
