Star Guitar, who became all-time richest Louisiana-bred last month with his win in the Costa Rising at Fair Grounds, could have his first work since that April 1 race this weekend at Louisiana Downs.
“I might do something with him this Saturday or Sunday,” said Al Stall Jr., who trains Star Guitar for Brittlyn Stable. “He’s had a little breather. We’ll start him back up and decide what we’re going to do.”
Del Mar announced on Tuesday that the track will enhance a bonus program that pays owners who ship horses from outside of California to run at the track’s upcoming meeting, from July 18 to Sept. 5.
The program, known as Ship and Win, was launched last year and is designed to encourage owners to ship horses to race at Del Mar.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Seven older males with a combined 49 wins and more than $3 million in earnings clash in Thursday’s $85,000 Diablo overnight stakes, a six-furlong race that could serve as a stepping-stone to the Met Mile on May 28 or the True North Handicap on June 9.
Acclamation, the champion older male of 2011, has resumed training in recent days at Santa Anita after undergoing a battery of tests following signs of unsoundness in late April.
The tests – which included conventional X-rays, a nuclear scan and blood tests – revealed no injuries or abnormalities, trainer Don Warren said.
Warren said on Tuesday that Acclamation galloped at Santa Anita after jogging on Sunday and Monday. Acclamation was out of training for a few days last week.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The filly Gittel, who starts in Thursday’s fifth race at Betfair Hollywood Park, is one reason trainer Janet Armstrong has had an excellent start in 2012.
Gittel won twice at Santa Anita in January, two of the seven winners Armstrong has saddled from 19 starters this year. Armstrong’s career high for wins occurred in 2007, when she had 20 wins from 111 starters.
Golden Gate Fields wound up with a good stakes race Sunday when Stormy Lucy scored an impressive victory in her turf debut in the 1 1/16-mile Golden Poppy Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. It could hit the jackpot again Saturday with the $75,000 Alcatraz, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-olds.
The Alcatraz has more star power heading into the race than the Golden Poppy did.
Lenny Pike will no longer represent the suspended jockey Robby Albarado, and has accepted a position as agent for jockey Shaun Bridgmohan.
The change comes just days after Albarado was arrested for fourth-degree domestic violence, an incident that led Kentucky stewards to suspend him indefinitely, pending an evaluation by the Licensing Committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
At a Tuesday arraignment, Albarado pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Photos from the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 5, show how the race unfolded.
Union Rags gets pinched between Dullahan and the No. 3 horse, Take Charge Indy, at the start of the 138th Kentucky Derby and was never able to recover. [Photo: Jenny Burgos]
Deshawn Parker reached a personal milestone Sunday evening aboard Cuban Carmen ($11.80) in the third race at Mountaineer Park, recording his 4,000th win.
A 41-year-old Cincinnati native, Parker began riding in 1988 and has led the nation in number of wins by a jockey the past two years. Parker received the Laffit Pincay award for outstanding achievement at the Eclipse Awards this year.
It appears as though Winter Memories and Hungry Island will renew their rivalry in the Grade 1 Just a Game Stakes here on the June 9 Belmont Stakes undercard.
Both fillies won stakes over the weekend. Winter Memories, in her 4-year-old debut, won the Beaugay at Belmont by 2 1/4 lengths, her seventh win in 10 career starts.
Meanwhile, at Churchill, Hungry Island won the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile by a length over Tapitsfly, her fifth win in 12 starts.
