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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Haimish Hy won the biggest race of his career in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on turf last November, a performance he failed to duplicate in four starts at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting earlier this year.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – One week after the lightly raced and unheralded Animal Kingdom upset the Kentucky Derby, there is an opportunity for another relatively inexperienced and equally unknown 3-year-old to step up and announce his presence as a player in the division.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario − Wildcat Marie seeks her fourth straight victory Saturday at Woodbine in the $150,000 Hendrie Stakes. A 6 1/2-furlong sprint, the Hendrie has drawn a stellar field that also includes Grade 1 winner Dr. Zic and champion Indian Apple Is.
There are a pair of Challenge Championship berths on the line Saturday night at Sam Houston, with the winners of the Grade 3, $88,740 Texas Juvenile Challenge and $52,920 Texas Derby Challenge trying to secure spots in their divisional finales Oct. 29 at Los Alamitos.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – There are few things that can be said with absolute certainty about the Monmouth Park meet that starts Saturday at 12:50 p.m. Eastern with an 11-race card.
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has issued a condition book that runs through June 12. The NJSEA, the owner and operator of Monmouth since 1986, is committed to run the track until then.
Beyond that, the picture gets fuzzy with a new operator possibly in place. The NJSEA has entered into negotiations with Morris Bailey, a long-time horse owner, to lease Monmouth.
McM Cajun Accent’s dominant, track-record performance during the trials for the Grade 2, $232,510 Louisiana Laddie Quarter Horse Futurity at Delta Downs makes him the one to beat in Saturday night’s finale. The 330-yard race is one of three Louisiana-bred stakes on the program. Purses for the races total $517,752.
Dialed In will be shooting for a $5.5 million bonus in the Preakness Stakes on May 21 at Pimlico, but not until very recently did Dale Romans, the trainer of Shackleford, realize that his colt is in line for smaller, albeit significant, bonus as well.
“I didn’t know about it until yesterday,” Romans said Thursday on a national teleconference. “It’s a little more incentive to go there.”
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Craig MacPherson is hoping that taking the blinkers off will make Belle Evangeline a more relaxed horse when she runs in the Hastings feature Saturday. Even without the equipment change, Belle Evangeline looks like the one to beat in the first-level $50,000 optional claiming race at 6 1/2 furlongs. She is one of seven 3-year-old fillies in the field.
AUBURN, Wash. – Bijou Barrister, a revelation last year when he rattled off a seven-race win streak, is scheduled to make his first start of the Emerald Downs season in Saturday’s seventh race, the co-featured event on a nine-race card beginning at 2 p.m. Pacific.
Western Woods is going to take some catching when he runs in Saturday’s seventh race at Northlands Park. The 3 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up running for a $22,000 claiming tag attracted seven horses, including stakes winners Robo Willie and Zuri Mwana.