GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Fresh off a dominating win here two weeks ago, Spice Swirl is the one to beat as she headlines the field for the $15,000 Runza Stakes going six furlongs at Fonner Park on Saturday.
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NEW ORLEANS -- When Unlimited Budget came here to Fair Grounds last month and won the Rachel Alexandra Stakes, the dominoes started to fall into place for her trainer, Todd Pletcher. He was seeking to keep his elite 3-year-old fillies, including Dreaming of Julia and Princess of Sylmar, separated, and Unlimited Budget made that task easier.
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The 50 players with the highest bankrolls at the end of the first two days of the National Handicapping Championship will compete for 10 seats at a “Final Table” and the grand prize of the $1.5 million tournament, the organizers of the event announced on Thursday.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Aigue Marine, beaten less than a length by Starformer when the pair met for the first time last fall in the Long Island Handicap, could be primed to turn the tables when the two long-winded fillies square off again in Saturday’s $150,000 Orchid at Gulfstream Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Sunday’s top race is the $70,000 Santana Mile on the main track. A field of five is expected, including Gladding, winner of the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes in 2011 who was claimed twice for $62,500 in January.
The 6-year-old Gladding was claimed by trainer Mike Mitchell when second in an optional claimer Jan. 12. On Jan. 24, trainer Vann Belvoir claimed Gladding, who was last of seven in a one-mile race on a wet-fast track.
FORT ERIE, Ontario – Fort Erie Race Track will conduct a 50-day meeting this season, beginning May 26.
The official announcement came at a press conference Thursday morning at the border oval. The racetrack had been scheduled to close last Dec. 31 – after slot machines were removed last April – but continued to offer simulcast wagering in 2013.
On Tuesday, the Ontario government announced that Fort Erie would receive transitional funding that will allow the track to continue operations this year. The amount and nature of that funding has not yet been revealed.
NEW ORLEANS – Strange, this 100th running of the Louisiana Derby. The prep, the Risen Star, was won by the longshot Ive Struck a Nerve, who subsequently was injured and is off the Kentucky Derby trail. And since the Risen Star field found the first eight finishers separated by less than four lengths, five of them are signed up for another go-round Saturday. Why not?
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – After a couple of impressive-looking allowance victories, Cigar Street steps back into stakes company for the first time in a year in Saturday’s deep Grade 3, $100,000 Skip Away Stakes going 1 3/16 miles at Gulfstream Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Den’s Legacy and Super Ninety Nine have been on the same springtime schedule in recent weeks.
They were third and fifth in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 16 for trainer Bob Baffert. Thursday at Santa Anita, they worked a half-mile in company, with Den’s Legacy setting the fastest time of the morning, at 47 seconds, and Super Ninety Nine going a tick slower, at 47.20.
They will part ways in coming weeks. Super Ninety Nine is part of Baffert’s three hopes for the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 6.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Neither trainer Shug McGaughey nor owner Dinny Phipps are prone to contracting Derby fever. But there’s no doubt temperatures have been rising around the barn ever since Orb entered the Kentucky Derby picture with his come-from-behind victory over the odds-on Violence in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth earlier this winter.