SHAKOPEE, Minn. – A pair of $50,000 turf stakes – the Blair’s Cove and HBPA Mile – are scheduled to be contested on a rare Tuesday race card at Canterbury Park.
In the 1 1/16-mile Blair’s Cove Stakes for Minnesota-breds, the 2011 Canterbury horse of the year Tubby Time will be looking to get back in the win column in a field of eight.
Trainer Tony Dutrow has been picky about where he runs his Grade 1-placed filly Pinch Pie this season. Since mid-May, Pinch Pie was entered and scratched from graded stakes three times, most recently in Saturday’s Grade 3 Eatontown Handicap at Monmouth Park, where she was the 7-2 second choice on the track’s morning line.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Empire Way has always had a tough act to follow with the success of stablemate Creative Cause, a three-time stakes winner who was third in the Preakness Stakes in May.
Empire Way has yet to win a stakes, but was second to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner I’ll Have Another in the Grade 2 Robert Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita back in February. That race was the last time that Empire Way finished in the top three. In three subsequent races, he has finished ninth, fourth, and ninth.
[bc_video_id:255926:]VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Troy Taylor and owner Glen Todd appear to have a lock on both stakes races at Hastings on Monday. The nine-race Canada Day card begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific, and the Taylor-Todd team has the top two choices entered in both stakes – the $50,000 Chris Loseth for 3-year-olds and the $50,000 Lieutenant Governors’ for 3-year-olds and up. Both races will be contested around three turns at 1 1/16 miles.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Pool Play, dropping from a Grade 1 stakes into an overnight stakes for Ontario-breds, is the class of Monday’s Ontario Jockey Club at seven furlongs on the turf course. The kicker is that Pool Play has not started since that Grade 1 success, which came in the 1 1/8-mile Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs on June 18, 2011.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Incredicat will spar with Jenna’s Wabbit in what should be a spirited matchup over six furlongs on a holiday Monday at Woodbine in the $150,000 Achievement Stakes.
Incredicat was on the Queen’s Plate trail in the spring, during which he went coast to coast in the 1 1/16-mile Wando Stakes on April 21. He went on to finish a fading sixth behind eventual Plate winner Strait of Dover in the 1 1/16-mile Marine Stakes.
Within Range might be good enough to stand the jump in class when he runs in a first-level, $32,000 optional claiming race at Northlands on Monday. The one-mile feature for 3-year-olds drew five horses and heads a nine-race Canada Day holiday card that begins at 1 p.m. Mountain.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Monmouth Park officials said they plan to run on Saturday despite a water emergency in the surrounding area.
All residents of Monmouth County were advised to boil water before drinking, and all outdoor water use was banned.
The county-wide state of emergency was implemented after three water mains collapsed at a nearby treatment plant. It could be several days before normal water pressure is restored.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Shane Sellers suffered a fractured right scapula in a freak accident Friday night on the Churchill Downs turf and will be out of action for five to six weeks, his agent, Fred Aime, said Saturday evening.
Sellers was injured when his mount, Voodoo Daddy, threw him when crashing into the temporary inner rail. Voodoo Daddy appeared well on his way to victory when holding an open lead in midstretch as the 3-5 favorite in the ninth race, a five-furlong turf allowance, before he shied inward when being struck with Sellers’s right-handed whip.
