HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Dayatthespa finished full of run off a lively pace under leading rider Javier Castellano to launch her 3-year-old campaign with an impressive 1 3/4-length victory over Wholelottashakin in Sunday’s $100,000 Sweetest Chant at Gulfstream Park.
Compromised by a slow pace in each of his last two starts, Inherit the Gold got a better setup Sunday and rolled to a 6 1/4-length victory in the $75,000 Haynesfield Stakes at Aqueduct.
Socialsaul, who got pressured up front by Uncle T Seven, outlasted that rival by a half-length for second. Spa City Fever, who leapt at the start costing him all chance, finished fourth. Beautyinthepulpit was last in the stakes restricted to New York-breds.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Eclipse Award winners Musical Romance and Awesome Feather will be among the headliners on Saturday’s $1.3 million Florida Sunshine Millions program at Gulfstream Park.
The six-race Florida Sunshine Millions is restricted to Florida-breds and replaces the old Sunshine Millions format that consisted of eight races, four each at Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita, pitting Florida-breds and California-breds.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Four graded stakes winners, including the multiple stakes winners Caracortado, Compari, and Unzip Me, are among the entrants for Saturday’s three California-bred stakes in the Sunshine Millions races at Santa Anita.
Caracortado and Compari lead a field of eight in the $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, the day’s fourth race and the first of three consecutive stakes in the Sunshine Millions series.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Arienza, daughter of 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri who was to make her first start of the year in the $50,000 American Beauty at Oaklawn Park on Sunday, has been scratched from the race. She is entered in a $40,000 optional claiming allowance Thursday.
Quest for Success, who also is entered for Thursday, was another scratch from the American Beauty.
Arienza was to make her first start since November in the American Beauty. Last season at Oaklawn, she won her maiden, an allowance and finished second in the Grade 2 Fantasy.
The owner-trainer-jockey team of Clarence Scharbauer Jr., Bret Calhoun, and Cliff Berry teamed to win two of the four stakes on Saturday night’s Texas Champions program at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston. They accounted for the richest race on the card with Coyote Legend in the $100,000 Star of Texas and the featured race for 3-year-olds, the $50,000 Groovy with Sword Trick.
The four stakes on the opening Saturday card were all restricted to horses bred in Texas.
ALBANY, Calif. - Favored Lady of Fifty completed a sweep of the Golden Gate Fields series of races for 3-year-old fillies with her third straight wire-to-wire win as she won the $100,260 California Oaks on Saturday.
Lady of Fifty rated nicely under Russell Baze and pulled clear in the lane as she defeated stablemate Sweet Nothings by 3 1/4 lengths while winning the 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies in 1:46.04.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Frumious, a 6-year-old who suffered a suspensory injury earlier in this career, was later gelded, and ran for a $40,000 claiming race as recently as last month, pulled an upset in Saturday’s $150,000 Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita.
Frumious ($14.60) set a fast pace, through rapid fractions of 21.06 and 43.77 seconds, and proved impossible to catch, finishing six furlongs on a wet-fast track in a rapid 1:07.28. Ridden by Antonio Castanon, Frumious won by 5 3/4 lengths over 12-1 Galientos.
NEW ORLEANS – No one could keep up with the Joneses on Saturday at Fair Grounds.
A couple hours after Believe You Can, bred and owned by a Jones (Brereton) and trained by a Jones (Larry) won the Silverbulletday Stakes, Mr. Bowling marched to victory in the Grade 3, $175,000 Lecomte Stakes for the same Joneses, beating back late runs from Z Dager and Shared Property and putting himself on the path to the $1 million Louisiana Derby.
