The wagering format changes, and facility improvements Louisiana Downs has made for its 84-date meet that opens Friday were done with the horseplayer in mind. The Bossier City, La., track has even moved the date of the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby back two weeks to Sept. 10, with the hopes of putting on the most competitive running possible. The race is the richest of the meet that continues through Sept. 25.
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OLDSMAR, Fla. – April in Oldsmar usually has the racing community thinking about travel plans. Horse vans on the backstretch increase in numbers. Grooms, exercise boys, and assistant trainers are packing tack and arranging housing for their summer headquarters, and the racing program slows a bit. Some of the fields are smaller, and stables that have been quiet most of the meeting start to win a race or two as the competition gets a bit easier.
A gate malfunction in the fifth race Tuesday evening at Indiana Downs resulted in the stewards declaring six horses horses in the 12-horse field non-starters.
When the gate opened for the six-furlong allowance event, six of the stall doors opened significantly later than the others, with those horses spotting the rest of the field approximately five to six lengths.
ELMONT, N.Y. – A pair of $54,000 optional claimers at six furlongs highlight Friday’s program.
Seven fillies and mares entered race 3, including the Sunny Meadow Farm entry of Kissa Melissa and Spina, a Mitch Friedman-trained duo that has combined for 73 starts long-familiar duo trained by Mitch Friedman that have combined for 73 starts.
Like so many races this weekend at Churchill Downs, the $100,000 Edgewood Stakes offers just what horseplayers are always asking for: a big field of classy horses, with no clear-cut favorite and plenty of attractive wagering options.
In fact, it looks like you could go choose from most anything in this field of 10 3-year-old turf fillies and not be too far wrong. Only two Edgewood starters have double-digit morning-line odds, which says plenty in itself, while the program favorite, Smart Sting, is pegged at 4-1, a very high number for a field of this size.
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The 3-year-old turf horses aren’t much easier to decipher than the 3-year-old dirt horses.
Friday’s Grade 2, $200,000 American Turf drew a full field of 14 and looks as wide open as Saturday’s Kentucky Derby and its 20-horse field.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – It’s been a long time coming, but Quincy Welch has left western Canada and moved his tack east to Woodbine.
“I had the opportunity to come here last year, but I decided not to,” said Welch, who has hooked up with agent Tom Patton. “I decided to try it this year.”
The 32-year-old Welch, who was born in the Barbados, rode there and elsewhere in the Caribbean for year or so before moving to Alberta in 1997.
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KENTUCKY OAKS DAY: Past performances, video, and race previews for Friday's full card
AUBURN, Wash. – Praise a Native, an impressive winner on opening night, and Gdanz Xpress, stakes-placed twice in 2010, headline Friday’s feature race at Emerald Downs.
A $25,000 claimer for 3-year-olds who have never won two races, the 5 1/2-furlong feature attracted five entrants. Gdanz Xpress, making his first start in eight months, will break from the inside post position. Praise a Native, who posted a field-best Beyer Speed Figure in his victory April 15, will break from the outside. In between are Carr Creek, Landed On the Moon, and Topper’s Trooper.