AUBURN, Wash. – Newfound Man, a stakes winner in 2010, and He’s All Heart, a game winner in his last start, headline the feature race Sunday at Emerald Downs. A first-level optional $32,000 claimer, it’s the ninth race on a 10-race card that kicks off with a 300-yard Quarter Horse dash at 2 p.m. Pacific.
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OCEANPORT, N.J. – Figuring two horses can travel as easily as one, trainer Dale Romans decided to have C.S. Silk accompany Shackleford on the van ride from Churchill Downs to Monmouth Park. Shackleford, the Preakness winner, is headed to the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday. C.S. Silk will be on the undercard in the Grade 3, $200,000 Matchmaker Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf.
A 5-year-old, C.S. Silk ran the race of her life most recently, a front-running victory over a course labeled good in the Grade 1 Just a Game at Belmont Park.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Larry Jones pulled into the Saratoga stable area here early Thursday morning with two older fillies in tow, both of whom will run in Sunday’s Grade 1 Ruffian Invitational Handicap. No, one of them wasn’t Havre de Grace.
In fact, only one of the two belonged to Jones, that being Payton d’Oro, who looks to step out from the shadow of her stablemate Havre de Grace in the $250,000 Ruffian, a 1 1/8-mile race that shares billing Sunday with the Grade 2, $150,000 Fourstardave Handicap on turf for older males.
Sunday’s $1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park could either provide some clarity to the 3-year-old division or create more chaos. If form holds, bet on the latter.
A Haskell victory by either Preakness winner Shackleford or Belmont Stakes champion Ruler On Ice would give that horse the unquestioned lead in a division that has lacked a clear leader for most of the year. Should one of the other six horses entered in the 1 1/8-mile race prevail, however, then the division will remain in turmoil.
The Illinois Racing Board extended a deadline for the state’s racetracks to file their dates requests for 2012 until Monday, racing board officials said on Friday.
The requests were due on Friday, but the extension was granted after one of the state’s tracks declined to waive a hearing right guaranteed under state law, according to Marc Laino, the board’s executive director.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Sidney’s Candy’s six rivals in the $150,000 Fourstardave may want to get a good look at him entering the starting gate, because that’s likely as close as they’ll get to the speedy Grade 1 winner until they pull up at the end of the Grade 2 turf fixture Sunday at Saratoga.
Fullofenergy, who will be seeking his fifth consecutive Land of Enchantment Handicap victory at Ruidoso Downs on Sunday, is one of 16 horses trainer Joel Marr will send out on a New Mexico-bred program of stakes worth more than $1.1 million.
The 10-race Zia Festival features six stakes for Thoroughbreds and four for Quarter Horses.
Laurel Park, the Maryland track that has begun to receive subsidies from state casinos, has resurrected one of the track’s most historic races, the Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash, for the 2011 fall meet following a one-year hiatus, the track announced on Friday.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Blind Luck will be nominated to the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 28, with the possibility that she will face males in that race and bypass a trip to New York or New Jersey for a late summer stakes, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said on Friday.
The champion 3-year-old filly of 2010, Blind Luck has won 12 of 21 starts and $3,279,520, but has never faced males in a career that includes 10 graded stakes wins.
SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Canterbury Park will host the signature race of its meet on Sunday when 10 fillies and mares take to the turf course in the $75,000 Lady Canterbury Stakes.
The race, contested over a mile, headlines Fillies Race for Hope, a day of horseracing and fundraising for the Hope Chest for Breast Cancer Foundation. Since 2001, Hope Chest has provided over $1 million in support for more than 2,000 breast cancer patients and their families in the Twin Cities area.