Best birthday gift ever? The 2021 yearling that Jim Bernhard purchased for Dana Bernhard ranks near the top. “My wife always gives me great birthday presents . . . the first Thoroughbred I decided to buy was a horse for her birthday at the July sale,” Bernhard recalled this week.
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Reincarnate, third in last Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Arkansas Derby, remains pointed to the Kentucky Derby, Tom Ryan, managing partner of SF Racing, part-owner of the colt, said this week.
Ryan said he was “proud” of Reincarnate’s effort and suggested a weather-interrupted training schedule in California may have hampered him some. Ryan said the horse has returned to trainer Tim Yakteen’s California stable and has emerged from the race in good order.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Eclipse Award champion Wonder Wheel returns to the site of her biggest wins as she headlines the opening-day entries at Keeneland.
Wonder Wheel, with Tyler Gaffalione in the irons for trainer Mark Casse, leads a field of seven 3-year-old fillies in the Grade 1, $600,000 Ashland , the feature among three stakes on Friday’s 10-race program at Keeneland, which was drawn Tuesday.
First post is 1 p.m. as the bucolic Lexington, Ky., track kicks off its 15-day spring meeting.
Sunland Park Derby winner Wild On Ice is scheduled to have his first work since that victory on Friday, trainer Joel Marr said Tuesday.
The drill will come at the horse's base of Sunland Park, which wrapped up its meet Sunday. Marr said no decision has been made on whether Wild On Ice will advance to the Kentucky Derby.
“He’s doing well,” Marr said. “We’re planning on a little breeze on Friday. We’re going to determine what’s going on after that. We have a possible flight on Sunday, so we’ll just see how it goes and how he comes back.”
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Rocket Can is being considered for a start in the Kentucky Derby, but no firm plans have been made for the horse, trainer Bill Mott said Tuesday.
Rocket Can shipped to Oaklawn Park from Florida for last Saturday's Arkansas Derby and finished fourth as the favorite. He now has 60 points for the Kentucky Derby, which ranks seventh.
“He’s making the trip to Churchill Downs tonight,” Mott said. “That doesn’t mean we’re running in the Derby. We’ll be there in case we decided to do that.
Jareth Loveberry, leading rider during 2020 and 2021 at Arlington and leading rider during Hawthorne’s spring meet in 2022, has moved his tack to Kentucky. Loveberry confirmed he’ll be taking mounts at the upcoming Keeneland meet and plans to go on to Churchill Downs.
Two Emmys, scratched by Fair Grounds stewards on the advice of the track veterinarian during his warm-up for the $300,000 Muniz Memorial on March 25, is just fine, trainer and majority owner Hugh Robertson reported Sunday.
In fact, Two Emmys was fine getting saddled before the Muniz and fine when he got back to Robertson’s Fair Grounds barn after being scratched lame.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Two months after an impressive maiden race win in her lone start, Clearly Unhinged runs in Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles.
The $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks will be a learning experience for the filly and her intrigued trainer, Michael McCarthy.
Will Clearly Unhinged set the pace the way she did in the maiden race at 6 1/2 furlongs? Can she handle a two-turn race against more experienced fillies so early in her career?
Trainers Todd Pletcher and Chad Brown are expected to run two horses apiece in the Grade 3, $250,000 Gazelle Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles.
Pletcher will send out Gambling Girl and Frosty O Toole while Brown counters with Occult and Shidabhuti. Gambling Girl, a New York-bred, finished second to Occult in the Busanda Stakes on Jan. 14 and then was fourth in the Grade 3 Honeybee at Oaklawn on Feb. 25. Frosty O Toole was a recent private purchase by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners following a pair of wins at Tampa Bay Downs for owner-trainer Mike Dini.
Mon, 04/03/2023 - 13:05
Repo Rocks, a winner of four straight races, and White Abarrio, the 2022 Florida Derby winner who won an allowance last out, head a field of at least eight runners expected for Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct.
Repo Rocks, based at Parx with trainer Jamie Ness, has successfully shipped to Aqueduct twice with dominant victories in the Grade 3 Toboggan and the listed Stymie. He completed preparations for the Carter on Monday, when he worked a half-mile in 47.05 seconds at Parx. It was his third consecutive bullet move.