I’ll Have Another, who won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs, flew to Maryland on Monday to get an early start on preparing for the 137th Preakness Stakes on May 19 at Pimlico Racecourse, a race that, like the Derby, should have a full field.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown hopes a return to Belmont Park will result in a return to the winner’s circle for Her Smile, who heads a five-horse field entered in Wednesday’s $85,000 Marta Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs.
Last year, when owned by Bobby Flay and trained by Todd Pletcher, Her Smile won the Grade 1 Prioress going six furlongs at Belmont. Her Smile finished the year with three losses, though she did run a good third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs.
Jockey Alex Solis has moved his tack to Woodbine and had three mounts for trainer Lisa Lewis here Sunday.
Solis has won 4,926 career races and his mounts have earned more than $228 million in a career that began in 1982.
Solis, 48, has spent most of his career in California but moved his base of operations to the East Coast in 2010. He has ridden primarily at Gulfstream, Keeneland, and in New York this year. Although he only has seven 2012 victories, he won the Grade 1 Maker’s 46 Mile on Data Link at Keeneland on April 13.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It was yet another respectable effort, albeit another losing one. In the last three runnings of the Kentucky Derby, horses trained by Dale Romans have finished third (Paddy O’Prado, 2010), fourth (Shackleford, 2011), and third (Dullahan, 2012), and it’s starting to frustrate the Louisville-born trainer a little.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Essence Hit Man led off last year’s Woodbine meeting with a win here in the six-furlong Jacques Cartier Stakes and a second-place finish in the seven-furlong Vigil.
Now, after being named Canada’s champion male sprinter of 2011 at the Sovereign Awards ceremony here this April, Essence Hit Man already has gone one better, as he followed up a repeat in the Jacques Cartier by winning the Vigil here this past Sunday.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – La Donna Mobile will move out to an appropriate distance in Wednesday’s feature at Woodbine, a 1 1/16-mile allowance for Ontario-sired females. The race will cap the pick four, which has a guaranteed pool of $100,000.
La Donna Mobile, a lightly raced 4-year-old trained by Barb Minshall, was unplaced in three starts before she finished second in her first two-turn attempt Nov. 4. A month later, she graduated by 4 1/1 lengths in a slow nine-furlong maiden special for Ontario-sired stock.
Northern Indy had finished off the board in his only two prior grass starts, but some back-class and a distance pedigree bolstered the 4-year-old to victory in Sunday’s $35,000 Hasta La Vista Handicap at Turf Paradise on the final race of the track’s 156-day meet.
With no winning tickets sold on the super high five wager Saturday on the Kentucky Derby, a carryover jackpot of $276,914 awaits horseplayers when action resumes Thursday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
The super high five, a $1-minimum wager, is offered on the last race each day. Entries for the Thursday and Friday cards at Churchill were to be drawn Tuesday.
In many prior years, a big pick six jackpot has been a main attraction when racing resumes post-Derby, but the pick six was hit this year, with each winning $2 ticket worth $675,148.
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 07:37
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville Metro Police said at a Monday news conference that they have no suspects in the case of the Guatemalan man whose body was found early Sunday morning in a Churchill Downs barn just hours after the Kentucky Derby was run, but that they suspect he may have been involved in one of several altercations that took place in the stable area in the Derby aftermath.