New Jersey will release regulations governing sports betting at the state’s casinos and racetracks next week, Gov. Chris Christie said on Thursday, which if enacted would allow for Monmouth Park to offer betting on professional and college sports.
ALTOONA, Iowa – Jockey Terry Thompson suffered an injury to his right leg before the start of Thursday night’s eighth race when his mount Diesel’s Prize reared up and spun around in the starting gate.
According to his agent, Scott Hare, Thompson was transported to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines and diagnosed with a “clean break of his right fibula.” The injury, not as severe as initially feared, will not require surgery and Thompson was released early Friday morning. However, at this juncture, there is no timetable for his return.
Open Me a Corona and Perrys Runaway, who were the co-fastest qualifiers for Saturday night’s $225,337 Laddie Quarter Horse Futurity at Delta Downs, will break side by side in the finale. Open Me a Corona, who won the eighth trial, breaks from the rail, while Perrys Runaway, who won the third trial, drew post 2.
The card Saturday night also features the $253,317 Lassie Futurity led by fastest qualifier Ms Jingles. Both stakes are restricted to horses bred in Louisiana.
Ochoa, who was a romping winner of last year’s All American Futurity for Quarter Horses at Ruidoso Downs, makes his first start since that September classic in Saturday’s trials for the Grade 1, $697,207 Ruidoso Derby.
There will be six qualifying heats for the June 9 finale.Ochoa won the All American by 1 1/2 lengths last year. He was voted champion for his 3-for-4 season in which he earned $1.2 million. Roy Baldillez has the mount for trainer Sleepy Gilbreath.
Feature Mr Bojangles, another champion, also makes his first start of the year Saturday’s trials at Ruidoso.
Pyc Kant Katch Me will attempt to remain perfect in four starts Saturday night when he runs in Oklahoma's richest race, the Grade 1, $1,115,000 Heritage Place Futurity for Quarter Horses at Remington Park. The 350-yard stakes will share a program with the Grade 2, $247,800 Heritage Place Derby for Quarter Horses.
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Field for the 2012 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 9. Odds by DRF national handicapper Mike Watchmaker. Click horse names to access contender profiles.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Officially, Aruna has made one start this year, a last-place finish in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley at Keeneland last month.
As far as trainer Graham Motion is concerned, the race doesn't exist.
"I feel like I have to put a line through it," said Motion, who said his 5-year-old mare was compromised by a pedestrian pace. "They ran 1-2-3-4-5-6 all the way around there."
Marketing Mix, who won the 1 1/4-mile Wonder Where Stakes in her first start on the turf here last year, breezed five furlongs in 1:00 at Arlington Park on Thursday morning and is slated to return to Woodbine for next Saturday’s Nassau Stakes.
The Nassau, a one-mile turf race for fillies and mares, offers Grade 2 status and a guaranteed purse of $300,000 plus $60,000 for Ontario-breds.
Court of the Realm began his 2011 campaign with a bang but was a disappointment in the closing stages.
On Sunday, trainer Peter Berringer is hoping that Court of the Realm can reprise that early-season form when he makes his seasonal bow in the Grade 2, $150,000 Connaught Cup over seven furlongs of turf.
“He’s training good,” said Berringer. “I went easy with him early. We wanted to make sure he was okay. This is the goal, and he’s made it here.”
ELMONT, N.Y. – Street Game returns to his favorite turf course and drops back into New York-bred company when he runs in Sunday’s $125,000 Kingston Stakes scheduled for one mile over Belmont Park’s Widener turf course.
Street Game, last year’s champion 3-year-old New York-bred, won three races in six weeks at Belmont last spring, including a 7 1/4-length victory in the Grade 3 Hill Prince. Before that, he had won two races against statebreds.
