Look At the Time, who finished fifth in the Grade 2 American Turf at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Oaks Day last month, returns to Louisiana-bred company Saturday night as he heads up the field in the $50,000 Rajun Cajun Stakes at Evangeline Downs.
The Wes Hawley-trained Look At the Time will square off against nine fellow 3-year-olds at seven furlongs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It has been nearly 10 years since Ken McPeek pulled off a Triple Crown shocker by sending out a 70-1 shot named Sarava to win the Belmont Stakes. McPeek was booked on a Friday night flight from Kentucky for New York, where he will prepare what he called “a couple of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost horses” in Atigun and Unstoppable U in their bids to thwart I’ll Have Another from becoming the 12th Triple Crown winner.
“You never know, I might have another Sarava,” said McPeek.
ALTOONA, Iowa -- With the Grade 3 $200,000 Iowa Oaks and the Grade 3 $250,000 Iowa Derby just four weeks away, Prairie Meadows stages a pair of key preps for those events on Saturday night, the $60,000 Panthers Stakes and the $60,000 Prairie Mile.
The Panthers, for 3-year-old fillies going a two-turn mile, has attracted six runners, headed by Tapajo, an impressive 1 1/4-length winner of the six-furlong, $60,000 Goldfinch Stakes on opening night, April 20, here.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Dancing Raven, winner of the restricted Ballade Stakes here last year, has ended on the fringes when facing graded stakes fillies and mares in her two starts this spring.
On Saturday, Dancing Raven will be back with her own kind in the $125,000 Ballade, a six-furlong stakes for Ontario-sired fillies and mares, and looms the one to beat for trainer Michael Doyle.
[bc_video_id:253505:]ETOBICOKE, Ontario – It certainly wasn’t surprising when Inglorious took to the turf like a duck to water in her season opener at Keeneland. She will try a mile over Woodbine’s expansive course Saturday in the Grade 2, $300,000 Nassau Stakes.
Inglorious’s brilliant 2011 campaign nearly earned her Canadian Horse of the Year honors. She swept the La Lorgnette Stakes and Woodbine Oaks in the spring, and then beat the boys convincingly in the Queen’s Plate, which helped her to clinch champion 3-year-old filly honors.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The Belmont Stakes nearly lost its marquee player Thursday morning when a different horse got loose and nearly ran into Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another during training hours at Belmont Park.
I’ll Have Another was not touched by the loose horse and was able to complete his normal training regimen without issue, but it created some anxious moments for trainer Doug O’Neill.
ALBANY, Calif. – Trainer Andy Mathis is aware there could be a contentious pace in the $100,000 Campanile on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields, but he’s willing to throw down a challenge to his six rivals on behalf of his starter in the one-mile turf race, Oh Molly Brannigan.
“We’re going for the lead,” Mathis said, adding he was going to tell jockey Juan Hernandez “to go for it until you get it.”
“I’d rather go 46 and not win than back off another horse and not win,” Mathis said.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Alpha, one of just four graded stakes winners among the dozen 3-year-olds being pointed to the June 9 Belmont Stakes, will miss the race after developing a temperature earlier in the week, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Thursday morning.
MIAMI – Calder Racecourse will offer pick-six wager with a low takeout of 19 percent beginning Friday.
The new wager, called the Mega 6, is a 10-cent wager that will encompass the last six races of each racing card offered during both the Calder and Tropical at Calder meetings, which run through Nov. 30. The bet is identical to the Rainbow 6, which proved to be a success during each of the past two Gulfstream Park meetings. The jackpot is paid out only if a single winning combination exists.
Jockey Mario Gutierrez is taking this week off to spend time in Western Canada before traveling to New York to ride Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another in the Belmont Stakes on June 9.
Gutierrez rode at Hollywood Park on Monday, but is not booked to ride this week, according to his agent, Ivan Puhich. Gutierrez rode at Hastings Park in Vancouver until last October and has traveled there to visit friends this week, Puhich said.
“He’ll be leaving Canada and he’ll be going straight to New York,” Puhich said Wednesday.
