LOUISVILLE, Ky. – My Miss Aurelia capped an undefeated season, and most likely a championship season, while bringing some happiness to connections who endured a difficult year by dominating the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juveniles Saturday at Churchill Downs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Musical Romance angled to the rail to overtake favored Turbulent Descent inside the eighth pole and went on to a 20-1 upset Friday in the fifth running of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Wayne Catalano completed a unique Breeders' Cup triple when Stephanie's Kitten ran down pacesetter Stopshoppingmaria to register a three-quarter-length victory in Friday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Stopshoppingmaria's uncoupled stablemate, Sweet Cat, finished third.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Calvin Borel loves Churchill Downs. So does 3-year-old gelding Will’s Wildcat. Put the two together, and you’ve got the winner of the $85,000 Jimmy V. Stakes on the Breeders’ Cup undercard Friday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Secret Circle entered Friday’s inaugural $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint as the 2-5 favorite. More important, he exited it a winner with the potential to become one of the favorites for next year’s Kentucky Derby.
Busting out of the gate under regular rider Rafael Bejarano, Secret Circle ran the other speed into submission and had enough left in the stretch to score a one-length victory over late-running British invader Shumoos.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Late-running Mister Marti Gras is a top-class horse when he gets a hot pace to aid his rally. And as he proved in winning Friday’s Grade 3, $109,700 Ack Ack Handicap on the Breeders’ Cup undercard at Churchill Downs, he is apparently just as good even when he doesn’t.
Despite dawdling early fractions set in the 1 1/16-mile Ack Ack set by favored Gladding, Mister Mardi Gras was able to close to victory from sixth down the middle of the track, edging Alma d’Oro and Glenwood Canyon in a tight finish.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Stalking a slow pace, Arena Elvira took over from a spent Banker’s Buy around the far turn and widened through the stretch to win the rescheduled Grade 3, $98,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap as much the best.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Overnight purses at the upcoming Hollywood Park fall meeting are set to rise compared to the corresponding meeting last year, but will be lower than prize money at the track’s spring-summer meeting earlier this year.
The fall meeting begins Thursday and continues through Dec. 18.
Overnight purses have been hiked across the board, with claiming horses the beneficiary of the most substantial increases. For example, a $32,000 claiming race for fillies and mares over a mile on turf will be worth $34,000, $8,000 more than last fall.
Shared Account, a 5-year-old mare trained by Graham Motion, is still scheduled to run in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs on Friday, even though she was erroneously listed as scratched from the race early in the afternoon by Equibase, which collects and distributes the racing industry's data.
The scratch was corrected at 1:47 p.m. Eastern, 20 minutes after it was first announced, according to Equibase's scratch sheet for Churchill. Post time for the Filly and Mare Turf, the ninth of 10 races on Churchill's Friday card, is scheduled for 6:50 p.m. Eastern.
