SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Bob Baffert won the Haskell last year with Lookin At Lucky but chose to skip the Travers. Baffert won the Haskell again this year with Coil, and though he went as far as shipping that horse to Saratoga, the Hall of Fame trainer sounds as if he’s seriously considering skipping the Travers again.
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AUBURN, Wash. – Several hours after entries and post positions for the Grade 3 Longacres Mile were announced at Emerald Downs, Slew the Man was scheduled to be loaded onto a plane in Oakland for a Wednesday night flight to Seattle and a homecoming of sorts in the Northwest’s biggest race.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In a competitive renewal of the $100,000 Yaddo Stakes Friday at Saratoga, Gitchee Goomie rates a slight edge based on her consistency, affinity for this turf course, and ability to handle less-than-firm ground.
Gitchee Goomie has 2 wins and 4 seconds from 6 starts against New York-bred competition. She owns a maiden win at Saratoga in September 2009 and has twice finished second here, including a one-half length loss to Chorus Music in the Irish Linnet Stakes on July 24. In fact, her four losses in statebred company have been by a combined 1 1/2 lengths.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Mizdirection finished a game second in her first start around two turns in the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap at Del Mar on July 24, a result that has led trainer Mike Puype to take a realistic approach to her late summer campaign.
Saturday’s $250,000 Del Mar Oaks over 1 1/8 miles on turf is considered too steep. The $85,000 Sandy Blue Handicap over a mile on turf Friday, the same distance as the San Clemente, is considered a better fit.
“I know I wouldn’t look for more distance after the last race,” Puype said.
AUBURN, Wash. – A memorial service will be held Tuesday in Vancouver, Wash., for Charlyn Taketa, a popular figure in Northwest racing and the equine-art field who died last Thursday in an accident at Portland Meadows.
A full field of 12 horses was entered for Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park. The 1 3/8-mile race for 3-year-olds is the richest race in western Canada and this year’s edition appears to be a wide-open event.
The two likely favorites, Line Change and Inhisglory, will break next to each other.
Trainer Craig MacPherson had first choice in the derby draw held Wednesday and he opted for post 3 for Inisglory, who has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Since trainer Jim DiVito has won with a somewhat shocking 20 of his last 48 2-year-old starters, a 42 percent strike rate, it comes as little surprise that DiVito is coming off a grand weekend with the juvenile set. Twelve Hundred, an open-lengths winner at Prairie Meadows on Saturday, and Ann of the Dance, equally impressive Sunday at Arlington, both ran particularly well and earned slots in Arlington’s graded stakes races for 2-year-olds next month, the Arlington-Washington Futurity and Arlington-Washington Lassie.
A collection of some of the best 3-year-old Quarter Horses in the nation have descended on Ruidoso Downs for Friday’s nine trials for the Grade 1, $1,316,760 All American Derby. There is at least one Grade 1 winner in eight of the trials, which overall drew 73 runners attempting to secure a place in the 10-horse finale Sept. 4.
Post for the first race is 12 p.m. Mountain on Friday.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Sinister Quill has been knocking on the door in stakes company here this spring.
On Saturday, Sinister Quill will be looking to break through as she stretches out to 1 1/16 miles and returns to the main track for the Eternal Search Stakes.
The Eternal Search, for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies, attracted a field of seven headed by Bear It’s Time, who won the $250,000 Bison City at the same distance.
“It’s going to be very tough,” said Danny Vella, who is the trainer and a part-owner of Sinister Quill.