ARCADIA, Calif. – A surprisingly strong allowance race, featuring the comeback of stakes-winning Anthony’s Cross, highlights a compelling Thursday card at Santa Anita that is made all the more tempting by the $94,093 carryover awaiting pick-six players.
Sunday’s one-mile allowance race at Golden Gate Fields reaffirmed an old racetrack axiom: pace makes the race.
Live Sundays went to an uncontested lead on the Tapeta main track, relaxed nicely, and was never seriously challenged while scoring a 1 1/2-length victory in 1:38.10 while earning a 96 Beyer Speed Figure.
The day after Marilyn’s Guy beat San Pablo by a nose in the Feb 18 As Indicated Stakes, trainer Tony Dutrow said the 6-year-old gelding was full of himself as if to say “let’s do it again.”
On Sunday, the day after he gutted out a neck victory over San Pablo in the Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior Stakes, Marilyn’s Guy was not so perky.
“He was quiet,” Dutrow said. “Safe to say that race got to the bottom of him. Outside of that, he’s fine; his legs are fine. But that race kicked his butt.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - It took Turbo Compressor nearly until the spring of his 4-year-old campaign and 11 starts to finally get on the turf. But it was well worth the wait.
Turbo Compressor dominated a strong allowance field that included the multiple graded stakes winner Boisterous by 5 1/2 widening lengths under leading rider Javier Castellano when he finally made his turf debut in Sunday’s co-featured fourth race at Gulfstream Park. The victory was the fifth for Turbo Compressor, who is already a two-time stakes winner and graded stakes-placed on dirt.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – An optimistic Ramon Dominguez said Monday he is hoping to miss only a couple of weeks of riding, despite suffering a separation of his collarbone in a spill at Aqueduct on Sunday.
Dominguez met with a specialist Monday in Long Island who sounded optimistic about an expedited return to the saddle.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A change of scenery – even if it’s only a few feet away – is definitely in order for the New York Racing Association, which moves its racing Wednesday from Aqueduct’s winterized inner track to the main track.
Though it has been a mild winter weather-wise, it has been a harsh couple of weeks on the inner track, with nine fatalities having occurred in the final 17 days of the meet. Overall, there were 18 fatalities during the 74-day session.
PHOENIX - Turf Paradise canceled its second consecutive card Monday due to poor track conditions, following a severe winter storm that blew through Arizona Sunday. Racing was canceled after one race Sunday.
Live racing is scheduled to resume Tuesday.
