Eve Giselle won last year’s Endine Stakes for female sprinters at Delaware Park when it was still a Grade 3 event, matching her career best with a 99 Beyer Speed Figure. In more than 12 months since then, the now 5-year-old Eve Giselle has raced just once, fading to fourth in an optional $50,000 claimer at Laurel Park and earning a 78 Beyer that was her lowest since her 3-year-old debut in January 2010.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Imperial Monarch, a lightly raced Irish-bred 3-year-old who became a Group 1 winner in Paris in his last start, has been made the 3-1 morning-line favorite in a field of 11 for Sunday’s $1.5 million Canadian International.
Post positions for the 1 1/2-mile Canadian International, which is one of three Grade 1 turf stakes here Sunday along with the 1 1/4-mile E.P. Taylor and six-furlong Nearctic, were announced at a special ceremonial draw in the trackside tent here Thursday. All three races are Win and You’re In events for the Breeders’ Cup.
ELMONT, N.Y. – After an unsuccessful summer racing in Chicago, Boisterous is back at Belmont Park – on his favorite turf course – seeking a repeat in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Knickerbocker Stakes.
Boisterous, a 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor, is 4 for 7 over Belmont’s turf and 3 for 12 off of it. Moreover, three of those four wins have come on yielding turf, the type of ground he is likely to encounter on Saturday in the 1 1/8-mile Knickerbocker.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Shintoism looks like the one to beat in a first-level allowance race that will serve as Saturday’s feature at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint attracted seven 3-year-olds and goes as the eighth race on the second-to-last day of live racing at Hastings this year.
Prospective, a five-time stakes winner who in his most recent start finished fifth in the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby, will be considered for the Grade 1, $400,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs on Nov. 23, said trainer Mark Casse. Prospective’s wins this year include the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby and Grade 3 Ohio Derby.
“I don’t have specific plans for him, but maybe the Clark,” Casse said Wednesday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Flashpoint, a multiple graded stakes-winning 3-year-old sprinter of 2011 who was retired last fall, is on the comeback trail.
Flashpoint, a son of Pomeroy, won the Grade 2 Hutcheson at Gulfstream and the Grade 3 Jersey Shore at Monmouth last year. Following a fourth-place finish as the favorite in the Grade 3 Phoenix at Keeneland last October, Flashpoint was retired because of a torn suspensory ligament.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Regardless if he ever won a race, just getting to the starting gate was a victory in itself for Candy Feat.
On Friday, Candy Feat, a 3-year-old son of Hard Spun, goes for his second consecutive victory in a first-level allowance that goes as race 8 at Belmont Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Silentio needs a start on turf at Santa Anita on Friday to remain on course for the $250,000 Hollywood Derby at Betfair Hollywood Park on Nov. 25.
Undefeated in two starts, Silentio is part of a field of nine in an optional claimer over 1 1/8 miles on turf. Earlier this week, trainer Gary Mandella said Silentio is approaching Friday’s race in good condition, but that he was concerned about the weather. Rain is expected Thursday, and there is a possibility that Friday’s race could be shifted to the main track.
Alternation on Wednesday was “unlikely” to advance to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic after finishing sixth in last weekend’s Grade 2, $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup, said trainer Donnie Von Hemel. The horse was still in Chicago as of Wednesday, and Von Hemel said no plans for him have been set, including with regard to the BC Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.
“Unlikely is probably as far as I would go right now,” Von Hemel said of Alternation’s status for the Classic. “We do not have any plans at all right now.”
