BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Todd Pletcher sent three of his top 3-year-old prospects out to work at Palm Meadows on Monday, including the undefeated and untested Discreet Dancer, who went a very easy half-mile in 51.09 seconds before galloping out five-eighths in 1:04.60. He was followed by El Padrino, third as the favorite in the Grade 3 Remsen, who went five furlongs in 1:02.83 while going easiest of a set that included Heavy Breathing.
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If he were so inclined, trainer Merrill Scherer might spin a wizard’s tale of how he turned Santo Gato around this winter at Fair Grounds. A 4-year-old Kitten’s Joy gelding, Santo Gato came into the meet a 16-start maiden, with losses in turf routes and turf sprints, on dirt and Polytrack, and in races from New Orleans to New York. But he comes into Wednesday’s featured eighth race with two straight wins, the most recent a dominant first-level allowance victory in a turf sprint.
Prairie Meadows has hired Fred Hutton as racing secretary for the upcoming racing season, according to Prairie Meadows director of racing Derron Heldt.
Hutton, 54, was racing secretary at Remington Park for 11 seasons, from 2000-2010, and at Zia Park last year. He also has served as racing secretary at Yavapai, Les Bois, and Yellowstone Downs.
Hutton replaces Dan Doocy, who resigned last August.
Hutton said he will begin working at the Altoona, Iowa racetrack in March to prepare for the opening of the 67-day Thoroughbred meet on April 20.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – The strength of the local handicap division will be on display here over the next several weeks, beginning with Saturday’s Florida Sunshine Millions Classic and continuing Feb. 11 with the Grade 1 Donn Handicap.
One horse who figures to fit right into the upper echelon of the local division but who will be sitting out both those races is last year’s Florida Derby winner, Dialed In. Trainer Nick Zito is taking his time bringing Dialed In back from minor surgery that put a premature end to his 3-year-old campaign following the Preakness.
Golden Gate Fields was not selected as the site of a second campus for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the laboratory announced on Monday.
Golden Gate Fields was one of several sites being considered as a site for the laboratory’s second campus, and had it been chosen it almost certainly would have meant the end of racing at the Albany, Calif., track.
Lawrence Berkeley announced it will build its campus in nearby Richmond.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Chad Brown hoped to be running his promising 3-year-old turf horse Liquidity Trap last weekend in the Kitten’s Joy Stakes. Instead, Liquidity Trap will wait until Wednesday, when he takes on allowance competition for a second time in the $53,500 feature at Gulfstream Park to be decided at a mile on the turf.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Tried and true veterans of the New York-bred sprint stakes program have assembled for another meeting in a somewhat less prestigious – though no less contentious – event Wednesday at Aqueduct.
Just three months ago, Mineswept, Driven by Success, Smokin Hero, and Be Bullish ran third, fourth, sixth, and seventh, respectively, in the $125,000 Hudson Stakes at Belmont Park. Wednesday that same quartet along with three of their friends meet in a $54,000 optional claiming/New York-bred allowance that serves as the best race on Aqueduct’s nine-race program.
Jockey Pedro Flores fractured his right collarbone and suffered bruising to his lower back Sunday when his mount fell in the fifth race at Golden Gate Fields.
Flores was taken from the Albany, Calif., racetrack to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where his injuries were diagnosed.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Battle-tested against a stakes-winning stablemate last fall, Include Me Out won her first stakes in Sunday’s $150,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita, running in the sort of race her trainer thought would suit the 4-year-old filly.
Include Me Out started over 1 1/16 miles for the first time and gave a career-best performance to win the Grade 2 stakes by 4 1/4 lengths over Great Hot.
“Pedigree-wise, she wanted two turns,” trainer Ron Ellis said of Include Me Out.