AUBURN, Wash. – Tim McCanna is scheduled to saddle two horses Friday at Emerald Downs, a rather quiet evening for the newest member of the Washington Racing Hall of Fame.
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Facing in-state competition from Churchill Downs over the three-day Fourth of July holiday weekend, Ellis Park was expected to struggle to fill races during its opening few days.
Yet with the Churchill Downs meet now complete, short fields are again the norm Friday at Ellis, including in the featured seventh race, in which just six were entered in a $28,000 allowance at seven furlongs for 3-year-olds who have not won two races.
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To remain eligible for a $4 million bonus, Silver For Me will have to be among the 10 fastest qualifiers to the Rainbow Futurity for Quarter Horses when 22 trials for the race are run Friday at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.
The bonus is tabbed for the horse who can sweep Ruidoso’s three Grade 1 races for 2-year-olds, the $500,000 Ruidoso Futurity, the $700,000 Rainbow Futurity, and the $2.4 million All American Futurity. Silver For Me is the lone 2-year-old eligible for the All American Triple Crown bonus by virtue of his win in the Ruidoso Futurity on June 12.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Wesley Ward told owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey that the multiple derby-winning Pleasant Prince might need a start or two to get going this season.
A 4-year-old chestnut colt, Pleasant Prince certainly needed that first race, a seventh-place finish at Churchill Downs on May 21.
Ward expects forward progress Friday in the $54,000 third-level allowance with optional $50,000 claiming at Monmouth Park.
“I think he’s going to run better,” Ward said. “He’s kind of a big, heavy horse. Hopefully, it will be a lot better than his initial performance.”
It’s one down and one to go for Star Guitar this summer.
The two-time reigning Louisiana-bred horse of the year captured his third straight Louisiana Showcase Classic last Saturday night at Evangeline Downs against fellow statebreds and now has his sights set on the Evangeline Mile on Aug. 13. Star Guitar has won the last two editions of the Mile, which is for open company. His victory last Saturday ran his local record to a perfect 5 for 5.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Molinaro Remarks lit up the tote board like a Christmas tree when he won his turf debut, and it wouldn’t be shocking to see him strike again in Friday’s Woodbine headliner, a 10-furlong first-level allowance for Ontario-sired horses.
Molinaro Remarks was beaten in double digits in his first four races, all in Ontario-sired maiden special company on the Polytrack. He was let go at 40-1 when he moved to the turf for 1 1/16-mile maiden route June 15, and rewarded his few backers with a gate-to-wire victory under an enterprising ride from Steve Bahen.
ALTOONA, Iowa – Friday night’s Iowa Stallion Futurity at Prairie Meadows gives the 10 juveniles in the field, all maidens, a shot at some big money. The 5 1/2-furlong race offers added money of $60,000, and with its complicated scheme of bonuses and incentives, the race could end up being worth six figures.
The field comprises six unraced runners and the four who have made just one start each. Two of the entrants are fillies. All of them are locally based, with the exception of Lone Star shipper Kip’s Mescalero, trained by Bret Calhoun.
Freaky, the 2009 World Champion, won for the first time at Los Alamitos since January in Sunday’s $25,000 Independence Day Handicap, a race that may be better remembered for how roughly it was run that the stature of the winner.
All six runners in the 300-yard race encountered significant trouble. Freaky was bumped twice at the start, but overcame those incidents to win by a neck over Pappyscoronalilbro, who lugged toward the rail in deep stretch or might have finished closer.