Even a novice handicapper should be able to quickly identify the solid favorites in the two Labor Day stakes for New York-bred 2-year-olds at Finger Lakes, the Aspirant for colts and geldings and the Lady Finger for fillies. Bay Park Boy and Wildcat’s Smile not only hold a substantial advantage in Beyer Speed Figures following daylight maiden victories at Saratoga, but they each face only one other opponent who has won a race.
Jockey Jacky Martin, who was to ride fastest-qualifier Ochoa in Monday’s Grade 1, $2.4 million All American Futurity for Quarter Horses, sustained neck injuries in a race-riding accident at Ruidoso Downs on Friday. He was airlifted from Lincoln County Medical Center in New Mexico to University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.
Martin, 56, sustained three neck fractures but reportedly is not paralyzed, according to a Ruidoso spokesman. As of Saturday morning, he was in the intensive care unit at University Medical Center, where further evaluations on his condition were to be made.
Skip a Smile won his second stakes of the young Remington Park meet on Friday night, when he powered up the rail in the $100,000 DeBartolo Memorial Handicap. The win came on the heels of his score in last month’s $100,000 Governor’s Cup. Skip a Smile on Friday night won by a neck over Dakota Gypsy. It was another length and a quarter back to Schramsberg in third.
Welcome to Spa Babies! I'll break down the statistics for every juvenile contest at the meet and hope for a tidy profit.
In past years, I would list the stats for each horse before writing up my analysis, selections and wagering strategy. In order to streamline the content, this year's Spa Babies will showcase written analyses of each juvenile race. Each analysis will include relevant statistical information. Following the analysis, top three selections and wagering strategy will be provided.
Welcome to Spa Babies! I'll break down the statistics for every juvenile contest at the meet and hope for a tidy profit.
In past years, I would list the stats for each horse before writing up my analysis, selections and wagering strategy. In order to streamline the content, this year's Spa Babies will showcase written analyses of each juvenile race. Each analysis will include relevant statistical information. Following the analysis, top three selections and wagering strategy will be provided.
Welcome to Spa Babies! I'll break down the statistics for every juvenile contest at the meet and hope for a tidy profit.
In past years, I would list the stats for each horse before writing up my analysis, selections and wagering strategy. In order to streamline the content, this year's Spa Babies will showcase written analyses of each juvenile race. Each analysis will include relevant statistical information. Following the analysis, top three selections and wagering strategy will be provided.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The four winners of last year’s yearling sales stakes for 3-year-olds and upward will be back to defend their titles on Monday’s program.
Guipago, who captured the Halton over one mile of turf; Mesa Cielo, winner of the 1 1/16-mile Elgin for colts and geldings; Secret Wish, victorious in the 1 1/16-mile Algoma for fillies and mares; and Don’s Folly, who took the six-furlong Kenora, will face varying degrees of difficulty in duplicating those efforts.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Notacloudinthesky is the lone stakes winner in either of the two $200,000 stakes for Canadian-bred 2-year-olds on Labor Day Monday, the Muskoka and the Simcoe. They are the most lucrative races among six stakes for graduates of local yearling sales on the card, which is a prelude to the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s annual yearling sale this Monday, Tuesday and Saturday at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion.
The other four stakes, which are worth $125,000 each, are the Elgin, Algoma, Halton and Kenora.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Celestic Night, making his first start since being claimed for $80,000 in March, returned in style on Friday at Del Mar by scoring a front-running win in the $100,000 El Cajon Stakes for 3-year-olds.
The wire came just in time for Celestic Night ($36.20), who held off the fast-closing Great Warrior to win by a nose. Nijinsky's Song was another 1 1/4 lengths back in third, with even-money favorite Uncle Sam fourth in the field of eight.
OPELOUSAS, LA. - Evangeline Downs has canceled Saturday night’s program in anticipation of Tropical Depression 13, which formed earlier this week in the Gulf of Mexico.
The 10-race program, including the $50,000 Opelousas Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, will be brought back in its entirety - as it was drawn - on Thursday. The rescheduled program joins Friday and Saturday of next week as not being on the original calendar of the Evangeline meet as the final two Wednesdays in August were dropped iin order to extend the season an extra week.
