HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Ask Ruben Sierra if he’s the retired major-league baseball player who hit 306 home runs, and he’ll break into a broad smile.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Antonio Sano sent out Simplification to finish fourth in the 2022 Kentucky Derby, and he is hoping to be back in Louisville on the first Saturday in May again this year. Sano has two potential Derby starters in Congruent and Il Miracolo, both of whom worked five furlongs here Friday in preparation for respective upcoming starts in the Jeff Ruby Stakes March 25 at Turfway and the Florida Derby on April 1 at Gulfstream.
Ag Bullet, a stakes winner unbeaten in two starts this year, was held out of Saturday’s $100,000 China Doll Stakes at Santa Anita in favor of the $300,000 Bourbonette Stakes at Turfway Park on March 25.
Trained by George Papaprodromou for Calvin Nguyen and Joey Tran, Ag Bullet will have her first start on a synthetic track in the Bourbonette. The race is for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles.
Papaprodromou said the result of the Bourbonette will determine whether Ag Bullet is considered for the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 5.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - For 17 days last August, Maple Leaf Mel distinguished herself as the top New York-bred 2-year-old filly in training.
Then she was gone.
Seven months later, Maple Leaf Mel is nearing her return to the races, which is expected to come in the $100,000 East View Stakes at Aqueduct on March 24. The East View, restricted to New York-bred fillies, is run at six furlongs.
By the time I’ll Have Another and Nyquist reached mid-March of their 3-year-old seasons, they were already stakes winners on their way to wins in the Kentucky Derby for owners Paul and Zillah Reddam and trainer Doug O’Neill.
If the same partnership has a runner in this year’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 6, they will do so with a colt prepared in a different manner.
Blazing Sevens, who finished eighth in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park on March 4, will look to rebound and potentially earn a spot in the Kentucky Derby by running in the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 8, trainer Chad Brown confirmed Wednesday.
Brown said Blazing Sevens is tentatively scheduled to van from Payson Park in Florida to New York on Sunday following a workout over the weekend.
Although Japan offers a series of Kentucky Derby points races, Japanese-bred Triple Crown nominee Mandarin Hero is eyeing the spring classic from a different route, and is coming from Japan for next month’s Santa Anita Derby.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mage, the fourth-place finisher in the Fountain of Youth in just his second career start, will have his first workout since that March 4 race when breezing Friday at Gulfstream Park, assistant trainer Gustavo Delgado Jr. said early this week.
