Pigtails should appreciate the class relief when she runs in a first-level allowance race for fillies and mares at Hastings Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile feature drew seven horses, and only Pigtails and One Bad Romance are winners at the distance.
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City Route has several advantages over her rivals in Saturday’s $50,000 Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif. She is the only stakes winner in the field of six 2-year-old California-bred fillies; she appears to have the most speed in the race; and she drew the outside post, which should allow jockey Kevin Krigger to ease her to the front in the 5 1/2-furlong race.
Jim Meyaard trains three of the eight horses entered in the $50,000 Spangled Jimmy Handicap at Northlands Park Saturday. From a pure numbers viewpoint, Meyaard has a 37.5 percent chance of winning the one-mile feature for 3-year-olds and up. Considering Salt Flat Speed is one of the three horses, Meyaard’s odds of winning the Spangled Jimmy for the second year in a row are considerably higher.
Retama Park on Friday night will launch a three-tiered meet that runs through Oct. 15. The first leg is a 10-date season for Quarter Horses, through July 28. There will then be 14 dates of mixed racing, from July 29-Aug. 27. Retama then moves into 21 days of Thoroughbred racing starting Sept. 1.
Retama is racing Quarter Horses for the first time since 2008, after its last two Quarter Horse meets were run at Sam Houston. Purses are projected to average about $60,000 a program, and horsemen have been supportive.
Jockey Bobby Walker Jr. will be based at Louisiana Downs for the first time in more than a decade later this month, when he moves his tack to the track following the close of the Lone Star Park meet July 10. Walker had annually been one of the top riders in Bossier City, La.
“I won my first career race at Louisiana Downs, and my 2,000th win was at Louisiana Downs,” he said. “I grew up about 85 miles down the road from there, in West Monroe.”
Shotgun Gulch will soon head to Hollywood. The Grade 1 winner based at Lone Star Park is scheduled to ship out Sunday morning for Southern California, where she will run in the Grade 2, $200,000 A Gleam Handicap for fillies and mares at seven furlongs July 16.
“I’ll haul her out there,” said C.R. Trout, who bred, owns and trains Shotgun Gulch. “I’ve got a new trailer. It’s got air conditioning in it. It’s air-ride. It will be an easy trip for her.”
Chinchon has traveled the globe since his victory last summer in the Grade 1, $750,000 United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Bred in Ireland and based in France, Chinchon has raced in Canada, Dubai, and Singapore since then without success.
A 6-year-old, Chinchon returns to defend his title Saturday in the premier turf event of the meet.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Alternation, winner of the May 14 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont in his most recent start, will make a return trip to New York for the July 30 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga if all goes according to plan, trainer Donnie Von Hemel said Wednesday.
Von Hemel said he has secured four stalls for the Saratoga meet, though the three horses he sends with Alternation have yet to be determined. Von Hemel’s small string will ship 10 days to two weeks before the Jim Dandy, giving Alternation a chance to gallop and work over the Saratoga track.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Billy Denzik paid a mere $6,000 for a yearling colt at auction last fall before asking his friend from high school, Brook Smith, if he wanted to partner up. Smith said yes, and now the two are hoping to realize one of their best days in racing when the colt named Green Mouse runs Saturday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3, $100,000 Bashford Manor Stakes.