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.
BALTIMORE – Shackleford, who won the 136th Preakness Stakes on Saturday, came out of the race well, and his chances of running in the Belmont Stakes on June 11 are “better than 50-50,” his trainer, Dale Romans, said Sunday morning here at Pimlico.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Heavily favored Classic Alley Kat set an honest pace on her way to winning her second straight sprint stakes in the $50,000 Senate Appointee for fillies and mares at Hastings Saturday.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Saturday was a tough day for even-money favorites in graded stakes at Hollywood Park.
St Trinians crossed the wire first in the Grade 2 Milady Handicap, but was disqualified for interference and placed fourth. Second-place finisher Ultra Blend ($18) inherited the win in the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares.
BALTIMORE - The connections of Dialed In missed out on a huge payday as their colt’s late run fell 4 1/4 lengths short in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.
BALTIMORE – It was only a few minutes after Triple Crown hopes had evaporated, barely, for the 33rd straight year, and Graham Motion was leaning on the rail leading up to the jockeys’ room at Pimlico Race Course, an otherwise indistinct spot he knows all so well from two decades of running horses on the Maryland circuit.
Disappointment, fresh, was “a bitter pill,” said Motion, who had just watched Animal Kingdom, the Kentucky Derby winner he trains for Team Valor International, come within a half-length of running down Shackleford in a dramatic 136th running of the Preakness.
136th Preakness Stakes
Pimlico Race Course, May 21, 2011
Order of finish:
1. Shackleford
2. Animal Kingdom
3. Astrology
4. Dialed In
5. Dance City
6. Mucho Macho Man
7. King Congie
8. Mr Commons
9. Isn't He Perfect
10. Concealed Identity
11. Norman Asbjornson
12. Sway Away
13. Midnight Interlude
14. Flashpoint
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Since the first two starts of his career – both solid Polytrack performances - Workin for Hops has been a grass horse, and the question in the Hanshin Cup on Saturday at Arlington was whether Workin for Hops’s superior turf form would hold up on Arlington’s all-weather main track. The answer was yes - most assuredly yes.
The only luck that jockey Chuck Lopez had throughout most of Saturday’s card at Monmouth Park was all bad. Three of his horses finished last and another, a maiden filly named Ejazaat, tried to bolt through a gap on the backstretch and dumped him.
Fortunately, Lopez was uninjured and he came back to guide Successful Mission ($11) to an emphatic wire-to-wire victory in the $75,000 Elkwood Stakes.
