ETOBICOKE, Ontario—The speedy Essence Hit Man threatened his own six-furlong track record in Saturday’s Grade 3, $174,000 Kennedy Road Stakes at Woodbine.
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GROVE CITY, Ohio - Bakers Haulover dueled from the outside early in a nine-horse field before drawing off in upper stretch to win the $55,000 Ohio Freshman at Beulah Park on Saturday. Trained by Doug Cowans, the 2-year-old Ohio-accredited gelding held clear to win by four lengths under jockey Perry Ouzts over a fast track.
Uncle Virgil, part of a three-horse entry that was favored at 1-5, failed to respond for jockey Luis Martinez but still finished second, 5 1/4 lengths in front of stablemate I'm Kiddin, a filly.
Opening day of the 2011-2012 Fair Grounds meet doesn’t come till Thursday, but the fields for the card were set in the first draw of the season Saturday, the results of which look fairly encouraging.
A total of 109 horses were entered on a 10-race card, but many of those are also-eligibles in over-subscribed races. Three races went with just seven entries each, and the traditional opening day feature, the $75,000 Thanksgiving Handicap, drew eight entrants.
If Rapid Redux extends his winning streak to a modern-day United States record 20 races Monday night at Mountaineer Racetrack, he will truly have to earn it.
Although the 5-year-old Rapid Redux has dominated the $5,000 starter allowance ranks throughout the mid-Atlantic region en route to tying the record shared by 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta and the New Mexico-bred mare Peppers Pride, there are several potential stumbling blocks in his path when he faces nine other older horses going a mile in Monday’s eighth race.
The 5-year-old gelding Edgewater has kept some classy company this season. Within the past six months, Edgewater raced against three horses who competed in this fall’s Breeders’ Cup, including Drosselmeyer, the upset winner of the $5 million Classic.
Tuesday afternoon at Laurel Park, however, Edgewater will be running for a claiming tag for the first time in his 19-race career.
The class drop could help Edgewater snap a five-race losing streak in Tuesday’s sixth-race feature, a third-level optional $32,000 claimer at one mile on the main track.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.– Jockey Patrick Valenzuela must pass a drug and alcohol test and meet with Hollywood Park stewards before he is allowed to be named to ride in coming weeks, the stewards said on Friday evening.
Valenzuela did not ride on Thursday and was taken off his mounts for the weekend, citing the need to travel to Kansas to be with his fiancee’s family, according to steward Tom Ward and the jockey’s agent, Tom Knust.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Flat Out is being asked to spot his opposition three to nine pounds as the 123-pound highweight for the Clark Handicap, the Grade 1 race that anchors the final week of racing at the Churchill Downs fall meet with its 137th running Friday.
STICKNEY, Ill. - Two jockeys and their mounts appeared to have escaped serious injury in an ugly looking spill in the seventh race Friday at Hawthorne.
Catch the Train, ridden by Brandon Meier, went down at the top of the stretch, rolling over Meier and tripping up trailing No More Talkin, who also fell, sending Inocencio Diego to the ground. Meier was taken to Loyola Medical Center in nearby Maywood complaining of pain in his ribs. Diego, though sore, did not require hospitalization.
The Grade 1 sprinter Euroears will make two starts in coming months before going to stud at JEH Stallion Station in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, owner Jim Helzer said on Thursday.
Euroears finished last of nine in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, but won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar in July. He is being pointed for the Vernon Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park on Saturday and the Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita in January before going to stud.
“We’re probably going to run him two more times,” Helzer said.