A starter allowance which would be the longest turf race ever run on the E.P. Taylor turf course since its 1994 opening is scheduled to take place here at Woodbine on Sunday.
The 1 3/4-mile race, which is the final leg of the Lou Cavalaris Marathon Series, offers a purse of $60,600 and attracted 13 entrants.
The series was inaugurated this season with two separate series of three legs, one of which was restricted to fillies, with all races scheduled for turf.
A berth to the $750,000 Champion of Champions on Dec. 10 is available in Sunday’s $150,000 Los Alamitos Championship, provided the winner is not Good Reason SA or Snitcher.
Those two have already earned berths to the Champion of Champions by winning the Los Alamitos Winter Championship (Good Reason Sa) in February and the Vessels Maturity (Snitcher) in June.
Should Good Reason Sa or Snitcher win the Los Alamitos Championship, the berth will revert to the Z. Wayne Griffin Trials at Los Alamitos on Nov. 19.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes is not one of the many Win and You’re In races that Keeneland was hosting on a three-day “FallStars Weekend” that opened the fall meet, but it might as well be. The depth of this edition of the Bourbon, combined with the relative inexperience of 2-year-olds specializing in turf, figures to make its winner an automatic contender for the BC Juvenile Turf.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The Santa Anita winter meet ended too soon for Mildly Offensive, whose career began with two blowout wins on a dirt surface she loved.
Mildly Offensive, a 3-year-old filly trained by Carla Gaines, dusted maidens by 4 1/4 lengths in February. She followed one month later with an allowance romp in which she earned a stakes-caliber Beyer Speed Figure of 98.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario —The fields for next Sunday’s $1.5 million Canadian International, $1 million E.P. Taylor, and $500,000 Nearctic were still in flux as of Friday morning,
But one thing seems certain, and that is the fact the E.P. Taylor turf course will get a good workout on the blockbuster program.
A total of 18 possible candidates were listed for the Grade 1, 1 1/2-mile Canadian International. A maximum of 16 horses can start, with preference based on lifetime earnings.
The Grade 1 E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares, had 13 possible entrants.
Six 2-year-old fillies, including two-time stakes winner Killer Graces, signed up for Sunday’s $75,000 Soviet Problem Stakes at the Big Fresno Fair, a 1 1/16-mile race that caps a three-race stakes series for juveniles offered by the California Authority of Racing Fairs. The other races in the series were the 5 1/2-furlong Juan Gonzalez at Pleasanton and six-furlong Wine Country Debutante at Santa Rosa.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Excaper will experiment around two turns Sunday at Woodbine in the $200,000 Grey Stakes, a Grade 3 event for 2-year-olds that has been won by the likes of Eclipse Award champion Macho Uno and Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird.
Excaper was a rare debut winner for trainer Ian Black when he won a six-furlong maiden special on the Polytrack by three lengths Aug. 7.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Horseplayers from south of the border will be able to take advantage of the 20-cent minimum wager on Woodbine’s pick four and superfecta, beginning with Friday’s Thoroughbred and Standardbred programs.
Previously, the minimum wager on those bets was $1 when wagers originated from sites in the United States.
Canadians have had access to fractional wagers on racing from the Woodbine Entertainment Group’s Woodbine and Mohawk tracks since 2005.
ELMONT, N.Y. - There will be a pick six carryover of $103,591 into Friday's Belmont Park card after the wager went unhit for a second straight day.
Also, for the second straight day, the consolation payout was made on tickets that had 4 of 6 correct. The payout was $1,445.
