Sam Houston Race Park will jump into its Quarter Horse season Thursday night with a full slate of trial races. The theme of the entire opening weekend, in fact, is trials. The most important card will be Saturday night, when qualifying races are run for the Grade 2 Sam Houston Futurity. Last year, the 330-yard race for 2-year-olds was worth $487,770.
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Tue, 03/26/2013 - 16:14
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The strongest barn on the East Coast, if not the country, became that much stronger last summer when trainer Todd Pletcher added Stonestreet Stables to his client list.
Juvenile fillies Kauai Katie and Dreaming of Julia, along with the turf stakes winner Dominus topped the performers, but the group also included a promising middle-distance runner in Hierro, who seeks his second straight win in Thursday’s $65,350 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Marathon Lady, who finished second by a nose in the Grade 3 Bourbonette Stakes at Turfway Park last Saturday, has returned to trainer Steve Hobby's Oaklawn Park barn. She is now possible for the Grade 3, $400,000 Fantasy at Oaklawn on April 10. Earlier this meet, she won a maiden special weight route at Oaklawn.
“We’re going to nominate her for the Fantasy,” said Hobby, who trains Marathon Lady for Alex and JoAnn Lieblong. “It’s a little bit fast back, but we’ll just let her tell us if she’s ready or not.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As soon as Mother Nature permits, construction is to begin on a new attraction designed to honor the top Thoroughbreds to race at Saratoga during the past 150 years, it was announced at a Tuesday press conference at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame by the Saratoga 150 Committee and the New York Racing Association.
Tue, 03/26/2013 - 15:24
ARCADIA, Calif. – Tiz Flirtatious, the winner of the Grade 2 Santa Ana Stakes at Santa Anita on Sunday, will make her next start in the $250,000 Gamely Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park on May 27, trainer Marty Jones said.
Jones said Tuesday that Tiz Flirtatious will not run in the $150,000 Santa Barbara Handicap over 1 1/4 miles on turf April 20, the final race for the division at the Santa Anita meeting.
“I think we’ll skip that,” Jones said.
He said the decision “is more about the timing. We’d like to point her to some of the Grade 1 races this year.”
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey Gary Stevens, who has been aboard two of D. Wayne Lukas’s four Kentucky Derby winners, will be teaming with the Hall of Fame trainer in a major Kentucky Derby prep next month at Oaklawn Park. Lukas on Tuesday said that Stevens has the mount on Oxbow in the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 13.
Point of Entry, who defeated Animal Kingdom in the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap to open his 2013 campaign, worked an easy half-mile in 50.40 seconds at Payson Park on Monday. Point of Entry had originally been targeting Saturday’s $5 million Sheema Classic at Meydan after his win in the Turf Handicap but those plans were changed several days after the race. Point of Entry is currently owned in partnership by the Phipps Stable and Frank Stronach.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Ian Wilkes reported that Fort Larned continues to do well and seems to have suffered no ill effects after stumbling badly and unseating jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. moments after the break of the Gulfstream Park Handicap on March 9. Fort Larned worked for the first time since the incident last Thursday, going an easy half-mile in 50 seconds and change at Palm Meadows.