Less may be more for the Northern California fair circuit.
The Alameda County Fair cut two days from its schedule, running 13 days this year after running 15 days last year.
Just as the San Joaquin Fair, which opened the fair circuit, showed an increase in its handle this year, the Alameda County Fair showed improvement as well.
A five-horse field featuring three millionaires, topped by arch-rivals Havre de Grace and Blind Luck, will contest Saturday’s Grade 2 Delaware Handicap.
Post positions were assigned Tuesday morning for the 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares, which is the premier event of Delaware Park’s season, and the big names in the field drew all the odd numbers.
In addition to the lion’s share of the $750,000 purse, the winner will be rewarded with an automatic berth to the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – An open allowance for fillies and mares Thursday at Hollywood Park carries major implications for turf sprinter Unzip Me and pick six bettors chasing a $108,789 carryover.
With almost 20 days of triple-digit temperatures already recorded this year in the Ark-La-Tex, the summer of 2011 will likely go down as one of the hottest ever. Followers of Louisiana Downs, however, may well remember it as the breakout season of young trainer Preston Adams.
Less than halfway through the current meeting, Adams, 34, has sent out a dozen winners, good enough for third place in the standings behind mid-South veterans Morris Nicks and Charles Hukill.
The New York Racing Association has dropped a lawsuit that sought to keep its 2011 budget documents from being released.
According to a statement released by NYRA on Monday night, the association informed the state attorney general’s office that it had withdrawn the suit and that the association “will have no further objection to the release of this information” pursuant to requests under the state’s Freedom of Information Law.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Activity has picked up in the muddled 3-year-old division, with several notable names putting in recent workouts and one high-profile colt returning to the racetrack as the push toward defining a champion is about to begin in earnest.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Stormy Lord failed to respond to rating tactics in the Grade 2 Highlander Stakes, and will go back to a more unencumbered style Wednesday at Woodbine in the $100,000 Ontario Jockey Club Stakes, a seven-furlong turf sprint for Ontario-breds.
Stormy Lord, one of the leading local 3-year-olds last year, was victorious in his season opener. Over a very soft course, Stormy Lord led throughout the seven-furlong, Grade 2 Connaught Stakes.
Bouquet Booth will move from graded stakes company to take on 11 3-year-old fillies in the $125,000 Indiana Downs Distaff Stakes on Wednesday evening at Indiana Downs.
Trained by Steve Margolis, Bouquet Booth comes into the one-mile turf event off a third-place finish in the 1 1/8-mile, Grade 3 Regret at Churchill Downs on June 18. It was the first try on turf for Bouquet Booth, and Margolis was pleased with her effort.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Pender Harbour, third in the 1 1/4-mile Queen’s Plate on June 26, breezed five furlongs in 1:01.20 on the dirt training track Monday at Woodbine in preparation for Fort Erie’s Prince of Wales Stakes.
The field for Sunday’s $500,000 Prince of Wales, which is run over 1 3/16 miles of Fort Erie’s dirt oval and is the second leg of the Triple Crown for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, will be announced 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Plagiarist will try to win his second straight race when he tackles a well-matched field of older horses running in a $13,000 claiming race that will serve as Wednesday’s feature at Northlands Park. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint attracted eight horses and appears to be up for grabs.
