Pack Your Bags won the $55,000 Lea County as the longest-priced horse in the field Sunday, when he overtook favorite Humble Smarty by 1 1/2 lengths in the 5 1/2- furlong sprint at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. It was another neck back in third to Lion Hall.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- On a beautiful afternoon at Hollywood Park, Charm the Maker took the scenic tour, racing wide throughout yet still going on to capture the $100,000 Sharp Cat Stakes in an ideal prep for the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet for 2-year-old fillies next month.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Inherit the Gold, who won five straight races at Aqueduct last winter and early spring, served notice he’s still a local force to be reckoned with, taking the Thunder Rumble division of Sunday’s New York Stallion Series by a hard-fought neck over second choice Pretty Boy Freud.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Tu Endie Wei staked her claim for the Sovereign Award as Canadian champion 2-year-old filly with a convincing win over a quality field in the $152,100 Glorious Song Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday.
With Jim McAleney aboard, Tu Endie Wei was pressed through fractions of 22.61 seconds and 45.41 in the seven-furlong sprint. Miss Scarlet Road made a four-wide bid for the lead exiting the turn, before Tu Endie Wei drew away to score by 4 ¾ lengths, in 1:21.97.
One jockey inadvertently knocked another off his mount during Saturday’s third race at Laurel Park, resulting in a disqualification but no serious injury or further penalty from the stewards.
Matthew Rispoli lost his balance aboard Sweet Energy around the first turn of a one-mile race on the turf. Rispoli bumped and unseated fellow rider Joshua Navarro, who fell and was kicked in the left shoulder by Racyn With Gracyn as he rolled onto the turf course.
Adirondack King justified his status as the 1-10 favorite by cruising to a six-length victory in the Christopher Elser Memorial, one of two $75,000 stakes on Sunday’s card at Parx Racing restricted to 2-year-olds who had spent at least 90 days in South Carolina.
Golden Gate Fields dismissed racing secretary Sean Greely and several other employees in an economic-related cutback.
Joe Morris, the track’s general manager, called the decision “a payroll cut” and said that Greely’s assistant and stakes coordinator David Jerkens would take over the role as racing secretary.
Greely was named racing secretary in October 2004.
Jerkens is the grandson of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens. His father, Steven, and uncle, James, are also trainers.
Coin Collector, a two-time winner of the West Virginia Breeders’ Classic, and Miss Prime, a mare nicknamed the “Citation of the bush league tracks,” are among the seven newest members of Charles Town’s Racing Hall of Fame.
The class of 2011, which will be inducted during a ceremony at the track on Saturday, Dec. 10, includes former jockeys Larry Duruy and Woody Kirk, West Virginia Breeders’ Classic founders Sam Huff and Carol Holden, along with Ann Hilton and Elwood Heironimus.
Beware of the Bop set leisurely fractions and had enough left to hold off 4-5 favorite Silver Heart by a half-length in Saturday night’s $50,950 My Sister Pearl at Charles Town.
Sure Shot B won the richest race in Texas on Saturday night, when he led throughout in the Grade 1, $1,158,941 Texas Classic Futurity for Quarter Horses. The race came on the final night of the Lone Star Park meet, and it shared a program with the Grade 1, $335,631 Texas Classic Derby that was won by Cold Cash 123.
Sure Shot B ($20) was a half-length winner over Algorithmic, while it was another half-length back in third to Special Royal Corona. Sure Shot Be covered 400 yards on a fast track in 19.42 seconds, with Salvador Martinez aboard for trainer John Stinebaugh.
