OPELOUSAS, La. – Racing returns to Evangeline Downs on Wednesday evening with a retooled stakes schedule, a reinvigorated turf course, a host of new promotions, and hopes that its ability to attrract large field sizes continues. The 84-day stand will be run on a Wednesday-through-Saturday schedule with first race post time slated for 5:40 p.m. Central.
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DRF Past Performances
OLDSMAR, Fla. – The meet at Tampa Bay Downs has three weeks to go and there’s little question the biggest news story has been the amazing success of the Midwest Thoroughbred horses trained by Jamie Ness.
Through 81 days of racing, Ness has sent out 71 winners from 155 starters, a figure that has already broken the record for races won at a meeting of 68, which Ness set during the 2007-2008 meeting. Horses trained by Ness have been winning at a blistering 46 percent clip, which has to rank among the best at any meet by a trainer with so many starters.
Mike Smith, who rode Bodemeister for the first time in winning the Arkansas Derby on Saturday, will retain the mount for the Kentucky Derby, trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday.
In another Derby riding development, Garrett Gomez will ride Daddy Nose Best, the winner of the Sunland Derby.
The next major decision will be that of Ramon Dominguez, who has been riding both Hansen and Alpha.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Racing for the first time after a seven-month layoff, Gypsy Robin went to the lead out of the gate and was never threatened when winning the Grade 2, $150,000 Beaumont Stakes over Keeneland’s main track on Sunday. Gypsy Robin was the second choice in the field of six.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Town Prize ran them off their feet in Sunday’s $155,800 Woodstock Stakes at Woodbine, scoring with ease under Eurico Da Silva.
Town Prize ($9) shook loose on the lead and proceeded to set fractions of 22.14 and 44.51 seconds in the six-furlong sprint. He drew away in the stretch to prevail by 5 1/4 lengths in 1:08.22, a time which threatened 2011 champion sprinter Essence Hit Man’s Polytrack record of 1:08.16.
Hogy, the favored Chicago shipper, rallied wide for second, and Menlo Castle checked in third in the nine-horse field of 3-year-olds.
Mizdirection’s win in the Las Cienegas Handicap on the main track on Saturday will not result in a different focus for the 4-year-old filly’s career.
Trainer Mike Puype said on Sunday that Mizdirection will race mainly in turf stakes this year. He mentioned the $500,000 Just a Game Stakes over a mile on turf for fillies and mares at Belmont Park on June 9 as a possibility for her next start.
“She will be on the grass next time,” he said. “The Just a Game at Belmont would be under consideration.”
ARCADIA, Calif.- Veteran jockey Martin Pedroza is expected to miss two to four weeks of racing after being unseated in a spill in Saturday’s ninth race.
Pedroza was diagnosed with two broken ribs and spent Saturday night in a hospital, according to his agent, Richie Silverstein. Apprentice jockey Eswan Flores, unseated from his mount in the same spill, took off his mounts on Sunday. Flores is expected to return to riding on Thursday, when racing resumes at Santa Anita.
LEXINGTON – Jockey Matthew Straight was admitted to first aid under his own power at Keeneland after he fell from a horse in the fifth race that attempted to leap over the inner rail of the turf course.
Family members with Straight as he was driven in the back of an ambulance to the first aid station located near the tunnel from the paddock to the track said that he “had a shoulder injury” but that he was “going to be fine.”
Entering Sunday’s $75,000 Action Stakes, trainer James Hooper described his New York-bred Inherit the Gold as “game.”
Most people who watched Sunday’s feature at Aqueduct would concur with that assessment after watching Inherit the Gold wear down Isn’t He Perfect - to whom he was spotting five pounds - to win the Action by a head. It was 2 1/2 lengths back to Tech Fall in third.
The win was the second in four starts this year and 10th in 24 career races for Inherit the Gold, a 6-year-old son of Gold Token owned by Susanne Hooper, Glas-Tipp Stable, and Ochre House Stable.