Wed, 02/27/2013 - 16:55

Sam Houston: Unlatch trying dirt in Maxxam Gold Cup

Lou Hodges Jr./Hodges Photography
Unlatch wins the Woodchopper at Fair Grounds in his last start as a 3-year-old.

Trainer Al Stall Jr. will be seeking his third win in the Maxxam Gold Cup at Sam Houston Race Park on Saturday night, when he sends out Unlatch in the main event on a program of four stakes. The races are worth a cumulative $250,000, and Stall also will have starters in the three other races, including undefeated 3-year-old Departing in the $50,000 Texas Heritage.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 16:48

Parx Racing

2015 Racing Dates

Saturday-Tuesday

Added Racing Dates

Friday, May 1

Friday, Oct. 30

Friday, Nov. 27

Post Times

12:25 p.m. ET


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Wed, 02/27/2013 - 16:42

Gulfstream Park: Merit Man likely to scratch from Swale

Tom Keyser
Forty Tales, here working outside Shanghai Bobby, will be among the favorites in the Grade 3 Swale on Saturday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The $150,000 Swale Stakes no longer has any weight in determining eligibility for this year’s Kentucky Derby. But the money is still enough to lure a full field of 13 sprinters when the tradition-rich Grade 3 dash has its 28th renewal here Saturday.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 16:32

Aqueduct: Top Flight excluded from late pick four

Tom Keyser
Summer Applause has a knee chip that will require surgery.

Bettors looking forward to an all-stakes pick three linking the Gotham with the Top Flight and Tom Fool Handicaps on Saturday’s 11-race card at Aqueduct have another thing coming.

The Grade 2, $200,000 Top Flight goes as race 7 and is thus positioned out of the $250,000 guaranteed late pick four, which begins a race later with maiden New York-breds.

The Grade 3 Tom Fool, also worth $200,000, is race 9, so multi-race exotic bettors have the option of a rolling double with the featured $400,000 Gotham for 3-year-olds.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 16:24

Kentucky Derby: Mike Repole more at ease this time around

Barbara D. Livingston
The Gotham will be the first start for Overanalyze since he won the Remsen last November.

Mike Repole has horses that run as fast as he talks, and that’s a good thing – at least for his horses – because when you get him on the phone, he goes the first quarter in 21 and change and keeps right on motoring.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 16:08

Oaklawn Park: Canticle gets first shot at two turns

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Canticle will be making her two-turn debut in Friday’s ninth race at Oaklawn, and if the 3-year-old filly gets the trip, she could become a candidate for next month’s $75,000 Instant Racing, trainer Chris Hartman said.

The ninth race is one of two $62,500 optional claimers on the card for 3-year-old fillies. It will be run over 1  1/16 miles, while the other race, the eighth, is at six furlongs.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 15:40

Gulfstream Park: So Many Ways starting her year

Barbara D. Livingston
So Many Ways has been training for her return at Palm Meadows, where she worked a bullet half-mile in 47.60 seconds on Feb. 14.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – So Many Ways, an undefeated Grade 1 winner who was conspicuous by her absence from last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, will get her 3-year-old campaign off and running when she returns at 6 1/2 furlongs in Friday’s $70,000 Primal Force overnight stakes at Gulfstream Park.

So Many Ways was perfect in three starts for owner Maggi Moss and trainer Anthony Dutrow during an abbreviated 2-year-old campaign that ended following her convincing 2 1/2-length victory over Sweet Shirley Mae in Saratoga’s Grade 1 Spinaway.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 15:30

Santa Anita: Lady Asano to make her stakes debut in Las Virgenes

Shigeki Kikkawa
Lady Asano, claimed for $75,000, will make her stakes debut Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Lady Asano was claimed for $75,000 when she finished eighth of nine in a maiden race over six furlongs at Betfair Hollywood Park on Nov. 29.

John Sadler, who claimed Lady Asano for Kosta Hronis, said, “We didn’t look very smart.”

They are looking better now. Lady Asano returned to win a maiden special weight race over 1 1/16 miles by 7 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita on Jan. 27 in her second start. Her third race is Saturday’s $250,000 Las Virgenes Stakes over a mile for 3-year-old fillies.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 15:09

Santa Anita Handicap: Ron the Greek figures to get different setup this year

Barbara D. Livingston
Ron the Greek wins the Sunshine Millions Classic at Gulfstream by 11 1/4 lengths.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Ron the Greek had an ideal trip when he won the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap last March, stalking a furious pace and roaring home to win the most prestigious race of his career by a convincing 3 1/2 lengths.

That kind of trip may be impossible to duplicate when Ron the Greek starts in Saturday’s Santa Anita Handicap.

“This year will be different,” said Rodolphe Brisset, an assistant trainer for Bill Mott.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 14:49

2015 Mountaineer Racetrack Stakes Schedule

2015 Racing Dates

March 1 - December 21 (Sunday - Wednesday, Saturday)

Post Times

7:00 p.m. ET

Special Post Time

2:00 p.m ET (August 1)


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