Since he returned last Friday from serving a three-day suspension for a riding infraction, there has been no stopping Russell Baze. Baze will try to continue his roll in the $50,000 Lost in the Fog on Saturday during the final weekend of the Golden Gate Fields meet.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- For Brilliant Speed, the Kentucky Derby was a make or break race. Run well, and he would get another chance on dirt. Run poorly, and perhaps it would time to permanently affix a label on him of being a turf or synthetic surface specialist.
“I was hopefully optimistic,” his trainer, Tom Albertrani, said Tuesday morning at Belmont Park.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Though trainer Tom Bush sounded as if he were tempted to give the 1 1/4 miles of Saturday’s Grade 1 Manhattan a try with Get Stormy, he confirmed Monday that he would skip the race with his multiple Grade 1 winner. Instead, Bush said he would likely run Get Stormy in Sunday’s Grade 3, $250,000 Monmouth Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Monmouth Park.
“I can’t deal with that mile and a quarter,” Bush said. “There’s nothing more than a mile in that horse’s pedigree.”
ELMONT, N.Y. – Though Jeff Bonde had a reservation for the multiple Grade 1 winner Smiling Tiger on a Tuesday flight from California to New York, the trainer said Monday afternoon that he would not be shipping the horse here for Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 True North Handicap, for which he would have likely been the favorite.
“We changed our mind this morning,” Bonde said Monday by phone from California. “I went back and forth about it. I think he needs a little more space between races.”
ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Christophe Clement probably picked out Friday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Poker Stakes at Belmont Poker as a way to ease his French-bred gelding Right One into North American graded stakes competition. A good idea in theory, perhaps, but it doesn’t look like it turned out that way.
ELMONT, N.Y. – John Kimmel came to work Monday morning and found a pleasant note from his night watchman as it pertained to the trainer’s 4-year-old colt Friend Or Foe.
“The chart from the night watchman said ‘He ate everything,’ ” Kimmel said Monday morning. “I don’t know if I believe him, but that’s what it said.”
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – A handicapper can find all sorts of angles in the featured sixth race Wednesday at Arlington, a highly competitive third-level allowance race carded for one mile on Polytrack also open to $80,000 claimers.
Best last-race Beyer Speed Figure? That easily belongs to Saint Leon, whose 103 figure from a sharp May 3 Arlington sprint victory is a stakes-quality number.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Animal Kingdom was first in the Kentucky Derby, then second in the Preakness Stakes, and judging by the way he worked and looked on Monday morning here at Belmont Park, he has retained all his edge and fitness heading into the 143rd Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Finding the right spot for the 4-year-old filly Rose Catherine has proven to be more of a difficult chore than trainer Todd Pletcher anticipated.
In her last four starts, Rose Catherine has raced against males twice, had a race rained off the turf, and then caught a bog of a turf course at Pimlico.
“It’s been one less-than-ideal circumstance after another,” Pletcher said.