LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Amazombie defeated Force Freeze by a neck to capture Saturday’s $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint, and the connections of both are already making plans that could put them on the path to a rematch in the 2012 Sprint at Santa Anita.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rosemary Homeister Jr., the second-leading female jockey all time in North America, will ride her first race since she became a mother when she climbs aboard Huxley Winner in the ninth race Wednesday at Churchill Downs.
Homeister, 39, has been away more than eight months since she abruptly quit riding at the Tampa Bay Downs meet in early February when revealing she was expecting her first child. She gave birth to her daughter, Victoria Rose, on Aug. 21 in Tampa. Homeister’s boyfriend, fellow jockey Irwin Rosendo, is the father.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – While the majority of high-profile horses are headed for a vacation, one significant player from earlier in the year is heading back to the races.
Mucho Macho Man, the third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby and one of just three horses to compete in all three Triple Crown races this spring, returns Wednesday in a one-mile allowance race at Aqueduct. Mucho Macho Man qualifies under the “never won three races” condition of the race, which is also for horses being offered for a $35,000 claiming price.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Once the Breeders’ Cup and all its monumental buildup have come and gone at Churchill Downs, it’s hard to make a big deal out of a 10-race Wednesday card. Regulars will just have to suck it up by trying to make a score while betting on considerably less accomplished horses than those who graced the grounds over the last week-plus – not all bad, considering there are far less pleasant ways to spend a Wednesday afternoon.
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - Miss Racy Jess, a troubled seventh in the 2010 All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, won the first major stakes of her career in Sunday’s $987,350 Los Alamitos Super Derby for 3-year-old Quarter Horses.
The victory gave Miss Racy Jess an automatic berth for the $750,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos on Dec. 10, a race that often determines the World Champion Quarter Horse of the year.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Breeders’ Cup was designed to determine champions, but this year’s event here at Churchill Downs was so punctuated by unexpected results that a number of year-end honors will remain in doubt right up until the time envelopes are opened at the Eclipse Awards dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 16, first and foremost being Horse of the Year.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Sid Attard said Coronation Futurity winner Maritimer will be put away for the year, with an eye towards the 2012 Queen’s Plate, which hasn’t been won by a Coronation winner since Norcliffe in 1976.
“I’d like to quit and save him for next year,” said Attard. “Five starts, that’s enough for him. He’ll go to Florida for the winter.”
Maritimer graduated at first asking July 10. Three weeks later, the Norseman Racing Stable runner finished a close second to his stablemate Buongiorno Johnny in the six-furlong Vandal Stakes.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Future Surprise can probably be forgiven for coming up empty in the open Mazarine Stakes. She should be more effective against Ontario-sired opposition Wednesday at Woodbine in the $125,000 South Ocean Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-old fillies.
Future Surprise, a Minshall Farm homebred by Queen’s Plate winner Niigon, has started three times for trainer Barb Minshall. She got a six-week break after finishing a dull eighth in her debut over six furlongs July 23.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita concluded its 24-day fall meeting on Sunday with an increase in business over the corresponding days from 2009 meeting, the last fall meeting at the track.
Track president George Haines said average all-sources handle increased 5 percent, average ontrack handle 6 percent, and average ontrack attendance 1 percent.
This fall was the first in which Santa Anita operated a fall meeting on its own. From 1968 to 2009, the Oak Tree Racing Association leased Santa Anita. Oak Tree ran its 2010 meeting at Hollywood Park.
