OZONE PARK, N.Y. – One day after his courageous nose victory over Saturday’s Charm in the Grade 3 Tom Fool Handicap at Aqueduct, Comma to the Top was flown to south Florida on Sunday morning. But there are no plans to run him in Saturday’s Gulfstream Park Handicap.
“Definitely not,” trainer Peter Miller said Monday morning.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Fort Larned completed preparations for his much-anticipated 2013 debut in the Gulfstream Park Handicap by breezing five furlongs in 1:01.30 on a very chilly Monday morning at Palm Meadows. Fort Larned completed his final quarter in 24 seconds before galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.20, according to clocker Bryan Walls.
Fort Larned will carry high weight of 124 pounds in the one-mile Gulfstream Park Handicap.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The popular Mucho Macho Man, who has made Gulfstream Park his winter headquarters for the past two seasons, has left town for his new home at the Fair Hill training center in Maryland. Trainer Kathy Ritvo shipped Mucho Macho Man out on Monday morning along with several other members of her stable.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Can Dreaming of Neno handle the turf? That might be the key to solving Wednesday’s $57,500 main event at Gulfstream Park, a race scheduled to be run at five furlongs on the grass under second-level optional claiming conditions.
OLDSMAR, Fla. – Saturday’s Festival Day will have three stakes races on the program, but the one most of the fans at the track and around the country will be most interested in is the Grade 3, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby.
For years, sharp horsemen and savvy handicappers have come to learn that having at least one strong race over Tampa’s somewhat sandy and tiring surface can help a horse get ready for the first Saturday in May.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Can you say Derby Fever?
It’s certainly hard to blame trainer Gary Contessa and the connections of Rydilluc if they don’t start getting a little excited over the prospects of putting their 3-year-old on the Kentucky Derby trail after his eye-catching 3 1/2-length victory over Charming Kitten in Sunday’s $150,000 Palm Beach at Gulfstream Park.
Suggestive Boy, who has emerged as California’s top turf miler in the last five weeks, is expected to stay in California for his next start, trainer Ron McAnally said Sunday.
Saturday, Suggestive Boy won his first Grade 1 stakes in the United States in the $300,000 Frank Kilroe Mile. Last month, the 5-year-old Argentine-bred won the Grade 2 Arcadia Stakes over a mile on turf.
Suggestive Boy, who gave McAnally his 700th career win at Santa Anita, won three consecutive Group 1 races in Argentina in 2011 before being sent to California.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Flashback, the unbeaten 3-year-old, had a tougher test than expected in a Sunday morning workout at Santa Anita.
A leading contender for Saturday’s $300,000 San Felipe Stakes, Flashback worked five furlongs in 59 seconds, the fastest of 63 recorded works at the distance. But the circumstances of the stretch run of the workout were not what jockey Julien Leparoux and trainer Bob Baffert envisioned.
Went the Day Well bombed as the 1-2 favorite in a second-level New York-bred allowance race at Aqueduct, finishing fifth in a six-horse field.
Afterward, Team Valor International, the primary owner of Went the Day Well, posted a release on its Twitter account that said jockey Junior Alvarado said the horse was having breathing issues.
The release further stated that a post-race examination showed the beginnings of possibly paralysis of the left vocal cord.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Let Me Entertain U had her backers singing and dancing to the mutuel windows Sunday as she disposed of odds-on favorite Kelli Got Frosty turning for home and then held off a late run from Grand Mere to win the $75,000 Beru Stakes by a neck at Aqueduct.
Grand Mere, running back just three days after winning a starter allowance here, finished second by four lengths over Kelli Got Frosty. Girl Code was fourth.
