A number of Kentucky-based runners are continuing their preparations for next month’s Royal Ascot meeting in England, including Caravel, the reigning Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner.
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ARCADIA, Calif. - Together, the veteran California-breds Brickyard Ride and The Chosen Vron have won an astonishing 24 of 40 starts, including 17 stakes.
They have never met, and a rendezvous is far from a certainty at Santa Anita on Sunday when the track hosts five stakes for statebreds.
Brickyard Ride, the winner of 13 of 25 starts, is expected to run in the $100,000 Thor’s Echo Stakes at six furlongs, while The Chosen Vron is a candidate for that race and the $100,000 Crystal Water Stakes at a mile on turf.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Not that he had a rough winter, but trainer Phil D’Amato’s stable has been particularly productive this spring.
Across the nation on Saturday, D’Amato won two turf sprint stakes with Beer Can Man in the Jim McKay Turf Sprint at Pimlico, and the Mizdirection Stakes with Elm Drive for fillies and mares at Santa Anita. On Sunday, D’Amato’s Conclude won the Desert Code Stakes for 3-year-old turf sprinters in what could be a prep for the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes at Del Mar on July 21.
Black-Eyed Susan/Preakness $2 daily double will-pays:
Black-Eyed Susan winner Taxed (No. 10, $24) with:
1) National Treasure, $93.40
2) Chase the Chaos, $1,163.60
3) Mage, $62.40
4) Coffeewithchris, $856.20
5) Red Route One, $196.40
6) Perform, $217.80
7) Blazing Sevens, $160.40
8) First Mission, scratched
Four horses were scratched from Friday’s third race at Belmont Park when those horses were not treated with the anti-bleeding medication Lasix in the prescribed timeframe, according to the New York Racing Association and several of the trainers in the race.
Impazible Donna, trained by Bruce Levine; Dancing Sophia, trained by Chris Englehart; Ok Honey, trained by Amira Chichakly; and Movie Moxy, trained by Linda Rice, were all scratched out of the second-level allowance/optional $62,500 claiming race that carried a $100,000 purse.
BALTIMORE – First Mission, the 5-2 second choice on the morning line for Saturday's $1.65 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, will scratch from the race due to a yet-to-be-determined issue with his left hind ankle, his connections announced Friday morning.
Mage won the Kentucky Derby in his fourth career start for a four-pronged partnership. The Preakness Stakes favorite races for OGMA Investments, a partnership helmed by trainer Gustavo Delgado’s son and assistant Gustavo Delgado Jr.; bloodstock agent Ramiro Restrepo; Sam Herzberg’s Sterling Racing; and Commonwealth, a sports investment app offering micro-shares in racehorses.
A Little League baseball game played in a park in Garden City, N.Y., three days before the Kentucky Derby may have foreshadowed what lay ahead for jockey Javier Castellano on the first Saturday in May.
Bottom of the sixth – the last inning – in a 0-0 game, 10-year-old Brady Castellano, Javier’s son, gets his first hit of the season. Steals second. Steals third. Next batter hits a ground ball to second and Castellano beats the throw home, sliding in safely to score the game-winning run.
A celebration ensues.
BALTIMORE – Every spring, hard on the third Saturday in May, racing scribes fire up “new shooters” pieces, stories about horses who skipped the Kentucky Derby and ran in the Preakness Stakes.
The main story this year concerns not a new shooter but a lone soldier, Mage, the only horse among eight Preakness entrants racing in the second leg of the Triple Crown after contesting the first.
