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ELMONT, N.Y. – A favorite coming off a perfect-trip victory is often one to try and play against the next time that horse runs. And while there are a few alternatives to Hibaayeb in Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 New York Stakes at Belmont Park, it could be tough to play against her with too much confidence.
ALTOONA, Iowa – A pair of Grade 3 stakes for 3-year-olds, the $250,000 Iowa Derby and $200,000 Iowa Oaks, will be run back to back on the second and final evening of the Iowa Festival of Racing and support the card’s main event, the Grade 3, $300,000-added Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap.
LINCOLN, Neb. - Song Of Humor, winner of his last three, stretches out to a mile for the first time in his career as he heads a field of eight in the $17,500 Lincoln Derby at Lincoln Race Course on Saturday afternoon.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Check Your Soul, looking to give trainer Roger Attfield a record ninth Queen’s Plate victory, has been made the 3-1 morning-line favorite and will begin from post 13 in Sunday’s $1 million, 1 1/4-mile classic for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.
A field of 17 passed through the entry box Thursday morning, and post positions were announced at the annual Queen’s Plate breakfast, with Woodbine continuing to employ the two-tier method in which a random draw is made for order of selection and contestants then choose their own post positions.
CINCINNATI - Startin Something will be looking for her first win of the season and looks to have found a good spot in the $50,000 Cincinnatian at River Downs on Saturday afternoon.
A 3-year-old Ohio-accredited filly, Startin Something was Ohio's champion 2-year-old filly last season, racking up 4 wins in 8 starts and earnings of over $100,000. All her wins were against stakes company.
AUBURN, Wash. – Couldabenthewhisky, the leader of the 3-year-old division at Emerald Downs before a sluggish performance in his last start, will miss Sunday’s Pepsi Cola Handicap because of injury.
Couldabenthewhisky apparently injured himself in his stall a few days after running eighth as the odds-on favorite in the Auburn Handicap on May 30. In his previous start, his first outing following a seven-month layoff, he dominated a well-regarded field in the Jim Coleman Province Stakes at Hastings.
Morris Bailey, a New York real-estate developer who owns an Atlantic City casino, has reached agreements with New Jersey horsemen and state officials that will allow him to lease Monmouth Park for the next five years if the deals are approved by Gov. Chris Christie, several officials, including Bailey's attorney, said on Thursday.
Just how good is Inca Beauty? We should find out when she tackles a tough group of fillies and mares in a $40,000 optional claiming race at Northlands Park Saturday.
The one-mile feature attracted eight horses, including Summer Song, who was the champion older filly or mare in Alberta in 2009 and the queen of the same division in British Columbia last year.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The morning after a tornado ripped through the Churchill Downs stable area, track employees and horsemen continued work to accommodate horses and workers displaced when more than six barns at the track were damaged.
By Midday Thursday, track officials announced that they would resume racing as scheduled Friday night and that there was no damage to the main facility at Churchill Downs.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Caged Mistress will try and keep her unblemished record at Hastings intact when she tackles a solid field of fillies and mares in the $50,000 Vancouver Sun Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile feature attracted eight horses and goes as race 7 on the eight-race card, which starts at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.
