ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine Entertainment has added the swinger/omni to its wagering menus for Woodbine and Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Known globally as the swinger, or omni, the popular international wager requires horseplayers to select two of the top three finishers in a race. A horseplayer can win with their selected horses finishing first and second, first and third, or second and third.
The minimum for the swinger/omni is $1, and the takeout is 18 percent.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Javier Castellano may not be coming to the June 10 Belmont Stakes with his Kentucky Derby winner Mage, but the Hall of Fame rider is still coming to the race with a live chance to win.
Castellano will ride Arcangelo in the Belmont, the final leg of the Triple Crown. Three weeks ago, Castellano guided Arcangelo to a head victory over race favorite Bishops Bay in the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Ten days after a narrow victory in the Preakness Stakes, National Treasure is acting like a fresh, energetic horse. John Velazquez, his jockey, would prefer to conserve some of that energy for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 10.
Tuesday morning, National Treasure, with Velazquez up, returned to the work tab, going a half-mile in 50.85 seconds over the Belmont main track, per Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch.
Caravel will forgo a trip to Royal Ascot and instead make her next start in the Grade 1, $400,000 Jaipur Stakes on June 10 at Belmont Park, trainer Brad Cox said Tuesday.
Cox said the logistics of shipping to and from England were not ideal and, after consulting with his owners, Qatar Racing, Marc Detampel, and Sol Kumin of Madaket Stables, the decision was made to skip the Group 1 King’s Stand, a five-furlong race on June 20 at Ascot.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Slow Down Andy, a three-time graded stakes winner who was third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland last November in his last start, is nearing his 2023 debut in an equally prestigious race.
Trainer Doug O’Neill said on Monday that Slow Down Andy is on schedule for a start in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile Handicap, a $1 million race at Belmont Park on June 10.
Trainer Craig Lewis said he’s unsure where the eight-time stakes winner Brickyard Ride will reappear after his third-place finish in Sunday’s Thor’s Echo Stakes for statebred sprinters at Santa Anita.
Brickyard Ride finished 12 1/4 lengths behind winner The Chosen Vron in the four-runner Thor’s Echo Stakes. He disputed the pace for the first half-mile before tamely fading from contention on the rail.
“It wasn’t his day,” Lewis said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Ceiling Crusher, the unbeaten winner of two stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies by a combined 32 1/2 lengths this year, will remain in the statebred division when the Del Mar summer meeting begins in July.
Ceiling Crusher will be an overwhelming favorite to win her fifth start if she runs as expected in the $175,000 Fleet Treat Stakes for statebred fillies at seven furlongs on July 27.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York-bred 8-year-old gelding Battle Station, a three-time stakes winner, suffered multiple injuries to his left hind leg at the end of a workout Sunday morning over Belmont Park’s main track and had to be euthanized, according to trainer Domenick Schettino and his veterinarian.
Approaching the wire, jockey Dylan Davis had to pull up Battle Station abruptly. The horse was placed on an equine ambulance and was later taken to the Ruffian Clinic across the street from Belmont Park. Unfortunately, the injuries were too severe for Battle Station to be saved.
Bad Beat Brian set a course record and Just Might became racing’s newest millionaire in an allowance-level turf sprint last Friday at Churchill Downs.
Bad Beat Brian, a 6-year-old gelding, won by 1 1/4 lengths while completing the 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:01.53. The gelding was second by a head to Caravel in the Grade 2 Shakertown at Keeneland, and then finished sixth in the Grade 2 Twin Spires Turf Sprint on the Kentucky Derby undercard.
