The Del Mar stakes winner Calimonco will remain in training in 2012, postponing for at least a year a scheduled trip to stud, trainer John Sadler said on Sunday.
The decision was made after Calimonco finished third in the Grade 2 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park on Nov. 26, 2 3/4 lengths behind Jeranimo.
“He ran so well in the Citation,” Sadler said. “We talked a little bit and the plan is to go one more year.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.- Summer Front stumbled badly leaving the starting gate but was able to overcome his adversity and remain undefeated after rallying to a game 1 1/2-length victory over the 8-5 Finale in Sunday’s $100,000 Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Rousing Sermon was a fast-closing second in the CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park, beaten a neck by Liaison. Tenth on the turn, Rousing Sermon raced six-wide entering the stretch after jockey Joe Talamo opted to go around a wall of horses instead of trying to find room between runners. Rousing Sermon trailed leader Drill by about seven lengths with a furlong remaining.
“I don’t think there was a seam there,” trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said of the stretch run. “We think he can improve.”
Rousing Sermon and Brother Francis, second and third in the CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park, and Majestic City, 10th as the 3-1 favorite, are bound for stakes at Santa Anita, but are likely for different races.
Majestic City will make his next start $100,000 Sham Stakes over a mile on Jan. 7 or the $75,000 San Pedro Stakes over 6 1/2 furlongs on Jan. 22, trainer Peter Miller said.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Drill, the Grade 1 winner who finished ninth in Saturday’s $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park, will run in one-turn races this winter, trainer Bob Baffert said on Sunday.
The two stablemates who finished in front of him – race winner Liaison and Sky Kingdom, who was fourth, will start in Kentucky Derby preps this winter, as expected.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Late-blooming 3-year-olds Tiz the Argument and San Pablo posted impressive victories in $60,000 overnight stakes at Aqueduct on Sunday, and recorded virtually identical final times.
In the Let Me Linger for fillies, Tiz the Argument ($5.10) stalked 9-5 second choice Love and Pride from the outset, and surged past approaching midstretch to draw away by 7 3/4 lengths. She was the third winner of the day for apprentice Ryan Curatolo.
Navy Chapel bounced back from her first career defeat in last month’s Tri-State Futurity to score by 1 1/2 lengths in Saturday night’s $51,100 Eleanor Casey Memorial Stakes for West Virginia-bred 2-year-old fillies at Charles Town.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The turf course was open for workouts Sunday morning at Gulfstream Park, the first time the inner strip has been available for training since the 2011-2012 meet began on Dec. 3.
The first horse to take advantage of the opportunity to work on the grass was one of the turf stars of the 2011 session, Little Mike, who won three Grade 3 races over this course last winter. With Joe Bravo aboard, Little Mike worked five furlongs in 58.86 seconds, posting splits of 24.01 and 36.06 seconds while put under some brief but mild encouragement inside the eighth pole.
Chicago invader Proceed Bee overtook a pack of tiring leaders turning for home, then barely withstood a late run by Wealth to Me to post a head victory Saturday night in the $50,000 Prairie Bayou Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Bob Baffert won his record sixth CashCall Futurity on Saturday at Hollywood Park with Liaison, and it couldn’t have come at a more poignant time, because earlier this week, Liaison’s sire, Indian Charlie, died.
