Jockey Channing Hill will be wintering outside of New York for the first time since 2005 this season when he moves to Arkansas for the Oaklawn Park meet that opens Jan. 13. Hill, who will be riding at the Hot Springs, Ark., track for the first time, said he plans to travel to Oaklawn following a riding commitment in Pennsylvania on Dec. 20.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Two weeks after he could have resumed riding, jockey Tyler Baze remains suspended because he has not completed the terms of a ruling issued by Los Alamitos stewards in October for failing to take a Breathalyzer test during the summer.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Never Retreat’s racing career is not over yet.
Never Retreat was scheduled to be retired following her 2011 finale in Hollywood Park’s Grade 1 Matriarch. But after finishing a disappointing third as the 4-5 favorite three weeks ago at Hollywood Park, trainer Chris Block decided to give his Grade 1 winner one last chance to show her stuff before heading off to the breeding shed this spring.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Wesley Ward is confident that Ullapool is stakes material. But first, the lightly raced juvenile filly must earn herself the right to step up to the next level with a victory in Thursday’s $53,500 co-feature at Gulfstream Park, a 6 1/2-furlong optional claiming dash that drew a field of eight 2-year-old fillies. The race shares top billing on the card along with a second entry-level allowance race for 2-year-olds scheduled to be run at 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf course.
Saturday had the earmarks of a memorable day for trainer Billy Morey.
He won the first race at Golden Gate Fields with odds-on favorite Lord’s Minister in a one-mile maiden turf race. He won the second race, a $4,000 claimer at five furlongs, with favored Compromising Txt.
Then he saddled favorite Lucky Culprit in the $100,000 Gold Rush Stakes.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – It was hardly the Christmas season that jockey Martin Garcia envisioned.
A year ago, as the Hollywood Park fall meeting ended and the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting approached, Garcia was about 2,000 miles to the southeast, in his hometown of Veracruz, Mexico, stuck in immigration limbo and visiting relatives.
“I kept thinking, I’ll be back,” he said. “I didn’t want to stress myself. They told me it would be no problem, but that I had to wait.”
Fair Grounds might as well dub its Wednesday program Old-Timers Day. There aren’t many very good horses on the nine-race card, nor is there even a solid feature, but a couple seniors of note are scheduled to make an appearance.
Eight-year-old Good and Lucky first raced over the Fair Grounds track in December 2006. He liked it, winning an off-the-turf edition of the Woodchopper Handicap.
The New York real estate developer who operated Monmouth Park this summer under a tentative lease with the state has abandoned talks over a final deal after the negotiations collapsed last week, according to a representative of the state’s horsemen.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Three optional claimers at Hollywood Park on Wednesday could offer clues for stakes races at the upcoming Santa Anita winter-spring meeting.
The Hollywood Park autumn meeting begins its final week Wednesday and ends Sunday. The Santa Anita winter-spring meeting has its traditional opening day Dec. 26.
Wednesday’s second race at Hollywood Park is an optional claimer over six furlongs on turf for 2-year-old fillies. The race could serve as a prep for the $150,000 Santa Ynez Stakes for 3-year-old fillies over 6 1/2 furlongs on Jan. 15.