LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mark Casse has run just one horse in the Kentucky Derby, a 52-1 shot who wound up 10th, but he is quite familiar with Churchill Downs. As a young man, Casse was the leading trainer at Churchill at the 1988 spring meet before branching out into other racing-related endeavors. He returned to training with a vengeance in recent years, having won the Sovereign Award as the top trainer in Canada four times, including 2011.
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Greg Tracy is moving his barn north of the border to run at Hastings in British Columbia and also at Northlands Park in Edmonton, which opens in May. He won’t leave empty-handed, however. Tracy wound up his first visit to Golden Gate Fields with 3 wins, 2 seconds and a third from 14 starters.
“Next year, I’m coming back down with a few more horses,” he said.
Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:44
It looks like Positive Response and Awesome Gem will have a chance to prep for the Grade 3, $150,000 San Francisco Mile after all.
A one-mile allowance race that would have served the purpose was offered for last Saturday but didn’t fill. But racing secretary David Jerkens and his staff worked hard to get enough horses to run in a simlar race on Thursday’s card, 16 days before the April 28 San Francisco Mile, and now Awesome Gem, Positive Response and three others have a chance to go one mile on the turf.
The Grade 3 winner Mambo Meister had to be euthanized shortly after suffering severe injuries during a routine workout Monday morning at Calder.
Mambo Meister, a 7-year-old gelded son of King Cugat, won 11 of 42 starts during his career. Nine of those victories came in stakes races, most over his home course at Calder, including both the Primal and Mecke stakes in 2011.
MIAMI - Orlando Bocachica was the riding star on Monday’s opening-day program at Calder, winning three of the 10 races on the card, including the featured ninth aboard the 20-1 Dragonfish for trainer Steve Dimauro.
Fernando Jara had himself a riding double, while Larry Pilotti also got his meet off to a fast start by saddling a pair of winners.
Flat Black found something more in the late stages of the $50,000 Clem McSpadden Memorial Route 66 Stakes at Will Rogers Downs on Monday, coming back along the inside for a three-quarter-length win over favorite My Star Runner. It was another 4 1/2 lengths back in third to Steal Your Face.
The Route 66, for 3-year-olds and up at six furlongs, was the first stakes of the young meet at Will Rogers in Claremore, Okla.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Musical Romance, the Eclipse Award-winning filly-mare of 2011, was assigned post 2 in a field of 10 fillies and mares set to run Thursday in the Grade 1, $300,000 Vinery Madison at seven furlongs. Juan Leyva has the mount for trainer Bill Kaplan.
From the rail, this is the Madison field: Home Sweet Aspen, Musical Romance, Whipsaw City, Sugarinthemorning, La Reine Lionne, Whisked Away, She's Cheeky, Groupie Doll, Ariana D, and Future Generation.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Amie’s Dini loves a good fight, and she figures to have one on her hands Wednesday when she takes on shippers from California, Florida, and New York in the Grade 2, $300,000 Fantasy at Oaklawn Park.
The Fantasy, which is a prep for the Kentucky Oaks, opens the annual Racing Festival of the South. It is the first of nine stakes to be run over the final four dates of the Oaklawn meet, with cumulative purses for the races totaling $2.8 million. The series concludes with the running of the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby on Saturday.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Cozzetti, an improving 3-year-old for trainer Dale Romans, will be part of an Arkansas Derby field that had 11 potential starters as of Monday. He is scheduled to fly from Florida to Oaklawn Park on Wednesday, the same day entries will be taken for the 1 1/8-mile race that is to be run Saturday.