Placed on the calendar between the popular Pleasanton and Santa Rosa fair meets, the California State Fair in Sacramento may not be optimally placed to attract the best horses. But that doesn’t mean it won’t pull out all stops for fans and horsemen.
The nine-day meeting begins Thursday and runs through July 24 with two dark days, next Monday and Tuesday. It will conduct racing on Wednesday, July 20, in conjunction with the opening of Del Mar.
MIAMI – Fifty yards from home in the Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap, it appeared Musical Romance was not only about to complete a sweep by locally based horses of the four graded stakes on last Saturday’s Summit of Speed program but also complete a Cinderella seven-week run for trainer Bill Kaplan and the connections of the 4-year-old filly.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Five of the seven probable starters for Sunday’s Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie will be coming out of the Queen’s Plate.
But there will be some fresh blood in the mix thanks to trainer Mike Keogh, who planned to enter both Oban and Welloiledmachine on Wednesday for the $500,0000 Prince of Wales.
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.
