Sanagas, who won his Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, will have the winter off and will be pointed to races beginning in the spring, trainer Graham Motion said.
Sanagas is scheduled to be sent back to Motion’s base in Maryland, and is unlikely to start at the Gulfstream Park meeting.
“I might keep him north and point him for the spring campaign,” Motion said after Saturday’s race. “We can point for the nice races in summer and fall.”
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Made to Love Her won her first stakes in Sunday’s $100,000 Moccasin Stakes at Hollywood Park in a style that suggested she can be effective around two turns.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Venomous was the colt who was flying through deep stretch of the Grade 2 Oak Tree Derby at Santa Anita on Oct. 15, making up more than five lengths to finish a half-length behind upset winner Ultimate Eagle.
The Oak Tree Derby was run over 1 1/8 miles, at the time the longest race of Venomous’s 13-race career. He will run even farther in Sunday’s $250,000 Hollywood Derby over 1 1/4 miles on turf.
Chivalry SR earned a berth to the $750,000 Champion of Champions for Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos on Dec. 10 with the fastest qualifying time from Saturday’s time trials.
Ridden by Rodrigo Aceves for breeder Stern Ranches, Chivalry SR ran 400 yards in 19.37 seconds to win by 1 1/4 lengths. Sparky E Boy, runner-up to Chivalry SR, was timed in 19.59 seconds, and had the second-fastest time for the trials.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sent off as the favorite for his first start since being claimed in February for $62,500, Groomedforvictory rallied widest through the stretch and sustained a long rally to edge Johannesburg Smile by a head in Sunday’s $60,000 Adirondack Holme overnight stakes for New York-breds.
Now I Know, who remained undefeated in five starts with her four-length win in the Grade 3, $500,000 Delta Downs Princess on Saturday, will likely be freshened and return to action at Oaklawn Park, said trainer Don Von Hemel.
“We’ll probably give her a little time off,” he said. “She’s had five races and that’s enough for a 2-year-old. I suppose we won’t see her again before Hot Springs. She could come back in the Dixie Belle.”
VINTON, La.- Sabercat is bound for Southern California following his win in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot on Saturday. Plans for his campaign moving forward are to be determined, Ron Winchell, who co-owns the horse with his mother, Joan Winchell, said on Sunday.
Heavily favored Russell Road failed to display his customary closing kick, enabling speedsters Plantation and Tup Take’ Please to run one-two in Saturday night’s $51,060 A Huevo Stakes for West Virginia-breds at Charles Town.
The 5-year-old Russell Road, who became a millionaire by winning last month’s $450,000 West Virginia Breeders’ Classic, finished fourth, beaten 13 3/4 lengths, as the 1-2 favorite. It was his worst finish since he was fourth at 1-10 in the 2010 Classic.
The 4-year-old filly Lisa’s Booby Trap was named the top horse of the 2011 meet at the annual Finger Lakes Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association awards dinner on Saturday night.
Owned and trained by Tim Snyder, who bought her for $4,500 despite the fact she is blind in one eye and has a club foot, Lisa’s Booby Trap won 5 of 6 starts at Finger Lakes this season, including two victories against males.
She also recorded the fastest six-furlong time of the meet when she defeated an open allowance field by 2 1/2 lengths in 1:09.71 on July 11.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Sanagas won his Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup in a manner that suggested he was far from fully extended.
Ridden confidently by Rajiv Maragh, Sanagas was well-placed throughout the race over 1 1/2 miles, took the lead with three furlongs remaining and won comfortably, by 3 1/2 lengths.
The victory left trainer Graham Motion impressed, as he watched from his base in Maryland.
