Trainer Charlton Baker notched his 1,000th career win Saturday at Finger Lakes when Boston Chief scored a half-length victory in the seventh race.
Baker, a 44-year-old native of Jamaica, has scored 868 of his 1,000 triumphs at Finger Lakes. He finished the 2010 meet in second place in the trainer standings behind Chris Englehart with 82 wins. He is currently fifth in the young 2011 season with 10 victories.
AUBURN, Wash. - Noosa Beach picked up Sunday where he left off at Emerald Downs last summer, capturing the $50,000 Governor's Handicap to run his latest winning streak to five and his overall record since the beginning of 2010 to eight victories in nine starts.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Former Northern California-based trainer Dean Pederson is relocating to Southern California, so the $16.60 upset by Logical Single in the $73,550 Fran’s Valentine Stakes on Sunday at Hollywood Park was well-timed.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Apparently, dirt is the only surface Fastest Magician doesn’t like. Fastest Magician, a handy debut winner on Lingfield’s Polytrack last fall, bounced back from a 20-length defeat on the main track in his U.S. debut to win Sunday’s $60,000 A Gift overnight stakes at Belmont Park as the longest-priced of seven 3-year-olds on the Widener turf.
Nobody went with Rush Now coming out of the gate and nobody was able to cut into his lead in the stretch as the 3-year-old colt cruised to a 4 1/4-length victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Spend a Buck Stakes at Monmouth Park.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Paso Doble held off a pesky Dancingall Theway to take the $125,000 New Providence Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday.
Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom came out of his second-place finish in Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico tired, but otherwise in good shape and will be under strong consideration to run back in the Belmont Stakes on June 11, trainer Graham Motion said Sunday.
Animal Kingdom, under John Velazquez, rallied from 13th position in the 14-horse field to finish within one-half length of Shackleford at the finish of the Preakness, thus ending his chances at a Triple Crown opportunity in the Belmont.
The severe cutback from a series of seven-furlong and 1 1/8-mile races to 4 1/2 furlongs proved no problem for the classy Russell Road, who made up a four-length deficit in deep stretch to win Saturday night’s $51,500 It’s Only Money Stakes for West Virginia-breds at Charles Town.
Turf star Paddy O'Prado, who won the Dixie Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico in his first start of the year, came out of the race with a bruised right front foot, but does not appear to have anything worse than that, trainer Dale Romans said Sunday morning.
