AUBURN, Wash. – You Me and Ema B splashed to a front-running victory Sunday in the $50,000 Hastings Handicap at Emerald Downs, affirming her status as a burgeoning star in the local filly and mare division and giving Margo Lloyd her first stakes victory in more than 20 years as a trainer.
“It feels wonderful,” said, Lloyd, 63, who took out her first license in 1985 at Longacres and has trained a small string of horses on and off ever since. “I was a nervous wreck.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Shaun Bridgmohan enjoyed a sensational afternoon at Churchill Downs by riding half of the winners on a 10-race Sunday card, including four in a row.
Bridgmohan took the lead atop the standings at the spring meet with his five-win day. His victories started with Cash Refund ($7) in the third race, a $59,800 allowance that served as the feature race of the day. Bridgmohan then reeled off triumphs aboard Dubai’s Connection ($3.20) in the fourth, New Bay ($25.20) in the fifth, Costly ($5.60) in the sixth, and Nowhere to Hide ($6.60) in the eighth.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With owner Ahmed Zayat watching from the grandstand, Kentucky Derby runner-up Nehro breezed a half-mile in 50.80 seconds over a sloppy Churchill Downs racetrack early Monday morning, leaving Zayat trying to decide whether to send the colt to the $1 million Preakness.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Drosselmeyer became the first Belmont Stakes winner in more than a decade to win a race in his 4-year-old season, gutting out a neck victory over stablemate Birdrun in Sunday’s $60,000 One Count Stakes at Belmont Park.
C C’s Pal came into Sunday’s $75,000 Monmouth Beach Stakes with a tendency to settle for minor awards, picking up four seconds and a pair of thirds in her previous seven starts, all in stakes.
Under pressure from two other rivals in deep stretch, however, C C’s Pal refused to give in, even after being passed, and prevailed by a nose in a three-horse photo at Monmouth Park.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.-The day after Bench Points finished seventh in the Santa Anita Derby last month, ending any plan for a start in the Triple Crown, trainer Tim Yakteen redirected the gelding’s career back to one-turn stakes.
As expected, No Hesitation was named the 2010 horse of the year in Alberta at the Night of Champions dinner held at Northlands Park on Saturday night.
Trained by Jim Meyaard, No Hesitation dominated the local 3-year-old division. He won all five of his starts at Northlands in 2010, including the Grade 3 Canadian Derby with usual rider Rico Walcott aboard. He is owned by Barbara Side.
Meyaard also trains Alywyn, who was voted the top older filly or mare. Racing for Side Management Ltd. Alywyn won four races ,including the City of Edmonton Handicap and Duchess of York.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Inglorious established herself as the favorite for the June 5 Woodbine Oaks with a determined off-the-pace triumph in Sunday’s $180,000 La Lorgnette Stakes.
Luis Contreras rated Inglorious near the rear of the seven-horse field in the 1 1/16-mile route for 3-year-old fillies, as Portside set a tepid pace, while being pressed by Rein in Avaricity.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Dave’s Revenge, who unseated jockey Rafael Bejarano at the start of Sunday’s first race, was declared a non-starter after the Hollywood Park stewards ruled that the mare was not prepared for the race when the gates opened.
Dave’s Revenge was the first mare loaded in the field of five, but became upset and unseated Bejarano, who leapt off behind the gate. Dave’s Revenge was then taken out of the gate, allowing Bejarano to remount the filly, who was then loaded last.
Mutti Blues controlled the pace and turned Saturday night's featured John Wayne Stakes, a $70,000 sprint for Iowa-breds at Prairie Meadows, into a procession when he pulled away from eight other geldings to win by 4 3/4 lengths.
