Fri, 06/17/2011 - 16:54

Lincoln: Hot pace in President's Cup should be ideal for Bach's Homebrew

Bach’s Homebrew should get ample pace to run at as a strong field of eight older horses goes six furlongs in the $15,000 President’s Cup Stakes at Lincoln Race Course.

Bach’s Homebrew exits an impressive nine-length win over Nebraska-bred rivals in the Big Red Mile locally on May 30. It was his second stakes win of the year after taking the Ogataul Stakes at Fonner Park in March. A 4-year-old son of Milwaukee Brew, Bach’s Homebrew is unbeaten in four stakes appearances over this track, including a romping 12- length win in the Lincoln Derby last year for trainer Larry Staroscik.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 16:50

Arapahoe Park: Golden Springs has kept classy company coming into Molly Brown

Golden Springs spent her spring racing against some tough fillies. She hooked eventual Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty in March, and in her last two starts faced the talented sprinter Grandacious.

The company lines make Golden Springs an interesting prospect for the $40,000 Molly Brown at Arapahoe Park on Sunday. The six-furlong race for fillies and mares is one of two stakes on the card. The $50,000 Lucille Rowe Derby is for Quarter Horses bred in Colorado.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 16:43

Hollywood Park: Ryehill Dreamer out with tendon injury

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Ryehill Dreamer is expected to miss the rest of the year with a tendon injury.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Ryehill Dreamer, winner of the Grade 2 American Handicap on May 28, has been taken out of training with a tendon injury, trainer Julio Canani said.

Owned by Marsha Naify, Ryehill Dreamer won his first stakes in the United States in the American Handicap over a mile on turf, his seventh start in this country. A winner of 5 of 12 starts and $296,807, Ryehill Dreamer, 5, was considered a candidate for the Shoemaker Mile on July 2 before the injury was detected. He is expected to be sidelined until 2012.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 16:28

Lone Star: Father, sons enjoy competition, time together at track

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From left, Bryan, Tony, and Erik McNeil each rodes a winner on the May 28 card at Lone Star Park.

Jockey Tony McNeil will not be working this Father’s Day, but he will still be at Lone Star Park on Sunday to watch his sons, Bryan and Erik McNeil, ride against each other in the first three races on the card.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 16:19

Belmont Park: Plum Pretty tries to continue fun for owner Fort in Mother Goose

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Jockey Martin Garcia and trainer Bob Baffert have the Sunland Oaks favorite in Plum Pretty.

ELMONT, N.Y. – There are times when John Fort thinks to himself that he can’t have a bigger thrill in racing than he had winning the Kentucky Oaks last month with Plum Pretty.

“After the Oaks I said, ‘I can’t have any more fun than this, why even think about racing her again?’ ’’ Fort said Thursday. “But she’s a race horse.’’

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 15:45

Monmouth: Teaks North, Sleepless Knight candidates for United Nations

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Teaks North improves to 3 for 3 on Monmouth Park's turf course by taking the Grade 3 Monmouth.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Teaks North and Sleepless Knight, the one-two finishers in the Grade 3 Monmouth Stakes last weekend, could both be heading for the meet’s top turf event: the Grade 1 United Nations on July 2.

Teaks North would be bidding for a second Grade 1 win of the season, having taken the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap.

Teaks North is now 3 for 3 on the course, following his three-quarter length win in the Monmouth. Trainer Jason Sallusto said the 4-year-old gelding came out of the race in good shape and that he’s excited by the Teaks North’s upside potential.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 15:20

Calder: Noble's Promise thriving in new role

Barbara D. Livingston
Noble’s Promise is being pointed for the Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder on July 9, a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

MIAMI – The Summit of Speed is still three weeks away, but one horse already committed to the program is Noble’s Promise, a onetime Triple Crown candidate who has found a second life as a sprinter under the tutelage of trainer Ken McPeek.

Noble’s Promise finished fifth after making the lead at the top of the stretch in the 2010 Kentucky Derby, but following a nice fifth-place effort in the St. James Palace Stakes one year ago at Ascot, McPeek gave him some time off and put him on a new career path, one that has worked out extremely well thus far.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 15:16

Hastings: Todd, Kinsella put bull’s-eye on British Columbia Derby

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Glen Todd and Patrick Kinsella, the leading owners at Hastings, are intent on winning the Grade 3, $200,000, British Columbia Derby. Early nominations to the premier race at Hastings closed with 56 nominations. The derby heads six stakes races that are scheduled for Sept. 11.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 14:53

Emerald Downs: Noosa Beach will be hard to handle in Budweiser

AUBURN, Wash. – Noosa Beach, the rock star of Northwest racing, can add to his string of No. 1 hits when he starts as the high weight and odds-on favorite Sunday in the $50,000 Budweiser Handicap at Emerald Downs.

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 14:38

Santa Anita surface renovation beginning

Santa Anita will conduct a renovation on a portion of its main track beginning this weekend in an effort to reduce the clay content and add sand, the track’s president, George Haines, said.

The project will be conducted in part of the seven-furlong chute not currently used for training. Santa Anita is not currently open for racing, but its main track is used for training. The test plot is in an area measuring approximately 340 feet by 75 feet, or the width of the racetrack along about a sixteenth of a mile.