Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Mass., has submitted a $400,000 fee to the state’s gambling commission to launch its bid to receive one of three casino licenses authorized by the state legislature late last year, the track said on Friday.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Bob Tiller should be loaded for bear in the $125,000 Eternal Search Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday, when he runs Grace Phil and It’s Gail in the 1 1/16-mile route for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies.
Grace Phil is by far the most accomplished runner in the field. She took the 1 1/16-mile South Ocean Stakes at 2 and won her season opener this spring, a seven-furlong Ontario-sired allowance.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Herbie D looks formidable in an allowance race restricted to nonwinners of $30,000 this year that headlines Sunday’s card at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew six horses and goes as the third race. There is also a $40,000 claiming option in the conditions of the race.
Trainer Greg Tracy hasn’t slowed down since Claresmiezie gave him his 1,000th winner in the Assiniboia Oaks at Assiniboia Downs last Monday. Tracy is up to 1,003 winners now and is looking to extend his lead in the trainer standings over Ron Grieves at Northlands Park when he runs Heavenly Chorus in a $15,000 claiming race that will serve as Sunday’s feature. The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew six horses and goes as race 4 on an eight-race card that begins at 1 p.m. Mountain.
Silver Heart returns to her favorite racetrack for the $50,000 Sadie Hawkins Stakes for West Virginia-bred fillies and mares. A gray 7-year-old, Silver Heart has posted 13 of her 14 wins at Charles Town.That consistency makes her a major player despite a layoff since mid-April. She faces only five rivals in the seven-furlong race around two turns.
Cascabella has been a hard-knocking mare, a six-time winner closing in on $200,000 in career earnings.
Trainer Bret Calhoun would like to see the 5-year-old add the designation "stakes winner" to her résumé. Cascabella can take that step Saturday in the $60,000 Unbridled Belle for fillies and mares at Delaware Park. She faces nine rivals in the one mile and 70-yard race.
"She's been pretty consistent," Calhoun said. "She's just a cut below the better ones, and we've just been trying to find a good spot for her to win a stakes. She's run very well for quite a while now."
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - She had not raced in 102 days and showed only two workouts in the three weeks leading up to Thursday's $100,000 Statue of Liberty Division of the New York Stallion Stakes.
As it turned out, however, fitness was not an issue for My Jopia, who held off a late run from Manero to win by a nose the one-mile turf race restricted to 3-year-old fillies sired by New York-based stallions. It was a neck back to Halo Roo in third.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - A week before he sends out Nonios in the Travers, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will be represented in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes by Via Villaggio, winner of the Grade 3 Railbird Stakes in May who most recently finished second to Grace Hall in the Delaware Oaks in her first start on dirt.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Winter Memories, the popular multiple-Grade 1-winning turf mare, was retired Thursday due to bruising of the cannon bone in her right front ankle, trainer Jimmy Toner confirmed Thursday afternoon.
The injury is not deemed serious, but it would have sidelined her for the remainder of 2012 season and Winter Memories was to be retired at year’s end.
