Silver For Me was the most credentialed member of the field in the Grade 1, $500,000 Ruidoso Quarter Horse Futurity on Sunday as a stakes-placed runner, and the experience paid off as he rolled to a neck win over Back in the Pack in the first leg of the All American Triple Crown.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.- The California Horse Racing Board has launched an investigation into how Doc Can Dance, the longshot winner of the seventh race last Friday, was allowed to start despite not being eligible under the race’s starter allowance conditions.
Hearings in the case have not been scheduled, but are expected to include testimony from the gelding’s trainer, Paul Aguirre, as well as Hollywood Park racing officials.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Grade 3, $250,000 Monmouth Stakes on Sunday afternoon set up perfectly for Teaks North.
You could not have diagrammed the trip any better on a coaches’ chalkboard.
Get Stormy and Get Serious, two quality speed horses, hooked up as expected and dueled each other into submission.
Just as he did in the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, Teaks North ($11.60) gladly picked up the pieces.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Hollywood Park starter Gary Brinson was exonerated of any wrongdoing by track stewards Sunday regarding a May 15 incident when the mare Dave’s Revenge was ruled a non-starter after she was found to be unprepared when the gate opened.
Dave’s Revenge, who was fourth in the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, has raced in claiming races for the last year and has developed a habit of being fractious in the gate or breaking slowly.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario— Moonshine Mullin prevailed in a head-bob finish over 26-1 outsider Alpha Bettor in the $152,500 Victoria Park Stakes at Woodbine Sunday.
Moonshine Mullin ($33.80) went directly to the lead under Emma Wilson, and proceeded to set slow fractions in the nine-furlong route. Three horses tracked the leader, including Alpha Bettor and the favored Kentucky shipper, Twinspired, who began to retreat exiting the far turn.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Midnight Interlude, the winner of the Santa Anita Derby in April, but 16th in the Kentucky Derby and 13th in the Preakness Stakes in May, has been entered in Friday’s $70,000 Tsunami Slew Stakes over a mile on turf at Hollywood Park.
Trainer Bob Baffert said on Sunday that he would assess the race and decide whether to start Midnight Interlude, who has never raced on turf. Owned by breeder Arnold Zetcher, Midnight Interlude has won 2 of 6 starts and $649,680.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Majestic City remained unbeaten after two starts with an easy win in Sunday’s $78,470 Willard Proctor Memorial Stakes at Hollywood Park.
Ridden by David Flores, Majestic City ($2.40) led throughout and won by 3 1/2 lengths over an erratic Truco Latino, who bore out badly in the stretch and still had the place, finishing 9 1/4 lengths clear of third-place finisher Joyzey Billy in the field of five 2-year-olds.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The 2011 stakes winners Game On Dude and First Dude worked in company at Santa Anita on Sunday in preparation for expected starts in the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 9, trainer Bob Baffert said.
First Dude was timed in 59.60 seconds for five furlongs, while Game On Dude was timed in 1:00.40. Baffert said on Sunday that he had considered shipping one of the 4-year-olds to another circuit, but has decided to stay home.
Buster Rose was kept just off a quick pace early by jockey Tommy Pompell, then rallied on the turn and drew off to win by 2 3/4 lengths in the $87,750 Snack for 3-year-old Indiana-breds at Indiana Downs on Saturday evening.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Graham Motion, the trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, was to spend Sunday afternoon in Manhattan, taking in the Broadway musical “Wicked’’ with his family.
“It’ll be nice not to think about racing for a little while,’’ Motion said Sunday morning.
