Tu Endie Wei breezed four furlongs in 48.40 seconds under jockey Jim McAleney on the dirt training track here at Woodbine on Friday, her first workout since winning the 6 1/2-furlong Ontario Debutante on Aug. 13.
“I work all of my horses there, if it’s not muddy,” said trainer Reade Baker.
A Kentucky-bred who races for her owner and breeder, Brereton C. Jones, Tu Endie Wei is scheduled to make her next start in the Grade 1, $300,000 Alcibiades at Keeneland on Oct. 7.
Making Amends also breezed five furlongs for Casse on Friday, going in company in 1:01.20 with Jason Hoyte aboard, preparing for Saturday’s Summer Stakes at Woodbine
The $250,000 Summer and its sister feature, the Grade 3 Natalma, both are one-mile turf races which offer Grade 3 status and are part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In series.
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Hopeful winner Currency Swap returned to his Monmouth Park base on Tuesday, but will not return to the track until the beginning of next week as his connections consider what to do next with their undefeated 2-year-old colt.
Trainer Terri Pompay said that Currency Swap “was a little tired” coming out of Monday’s Hopeful but by Friday morning “he was playing a little bit.” Pompay said that Currency Swap will just be ridden around the shed this weekend before returning to the track next week.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is a strong proponent of Lasix. But with a movement afoot to ban Lasix in certain races and jurisdictions next year, McLaughlin did not use Lasix on four of his 2-year-olds during the Saratoga meet. He went 1 for 4 with non-Lasix users, the one win being with Alpha, who on Sept. 3 won a seven-furlong maiden race by six lengths.
NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Trainer Rodney Faulkner saddled his 1,000th winner on Friday when Fire Chief captured the second race at Thistledown. Faulkner began training in 1992 and has a career record of 1,000-994-881 from 6,968 starts. Horses trained by Faulkner have earned $7,083,773.
MIAMI – Manicero and Decisive Moment, two of the top 3-year-olds on the grounds at Calder, and who finished one-two in the Naked Greed Stakes here last month, could find their paths crossing again later this fall in, of all places, Indiana.
Trainer Adan Farias will attack Sunday night’s $100,000 Go Man Go Handicap for Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos with two of the nation’s top older horses, Chivalry Sr and Snitcher, and classy comebacker A Streakinson.
The 400-yard race drew a field of 10 horses, and it could have an impact on the field for the Grade 1, $750,000 Champion of Champions later in the meet. Although the Go Man Go itself does not provide a berth into that race, the winner Sunday night will receive first preference into the Champion of Champions field if an invited horse defects.
AUBURN, Wash. – The speedy Include the Baby, looking for her first victory of 2011, headlines the feature race Sunday at Emerald Downs. A $17,500 claimer at 6 1/2 furlongs for fillies and mares who have never won three times, The race is the ninth race on a 10-race card that begins at 2 p.m. Pacific.
Native Ruler will spot his rivals between five and nine pounds each on Sunday in the $100,000 Premiere Cup Handicap at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. The six-furlong race is the first of $4.5 million in stakes to be run during the 50-date mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses that opened on Saturday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – It has been a quiet year in North America for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Stable. One horse who could make a little bit of noise this fall is Buffum, who heads a field of seven entered in a second-level allowance race carded at one mile at Belmont Park on Sunday.
Buffum, a 3-year-old son of Bernardini, was a debut winner at Belmont last fall and was immediately elevated into graded stakes company and finished last of five, beaten 20 lengths by To Honor and Serve in the Grade 2 Remsen.
