The purses paid at Arlington Park this summer will depend upon the number of starters entered in a race, Arlington and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association announced Monday.
The purse for a given race listed in Arlington’s condition book will be paid in full if seven or more intended starters enter the paddock to be saddled for the race. If fewer than seven horses come over from the stables, only 85 percent of the published purse will be paid out, according to the new rule.
OLDSMAR, Fla. – Frederic Lenclud began his riding and racetrack career at the training centers around Chantilly in his native France and now, in his third year of riding in the United States, he has made quite an impression with trainers and bettors at Tampa Bay Downs as he races here for the first time this winter.
Lenclud, who will be 24 in April, learned the basics at a riding school in Chantilly after a school guidance counselor, noting his size, suggested he might have a future as a jockey.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Clubhouse Ride, among the top 3-year-olds in California, is off the Kentucky Derby trail, trainer Craig Lewis announced Monday morning at Santa Anita.
Lewis said Clubhouse Ride, a son of Candy Ride, has a hairline fracture of his right ankle that will require 45 days off.
"It's miniscule and he will recover," Lewis said. "That's the good news. The disappointment is I believe he is a true mile-and-a-quarter horse."
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Chad Brown said he has sent Tiz Blessed, who closed at odds of 79-1 on Sunday in the first Kentucky Derby Future wager, to Kentucky to be examined by Dr. Larry Bramlage in an attempt to discover what has been keeping the stakes-winning 3-year-old from a regular training schedule this winter.
Tiz Blessed won two of his three starts at 2, including Woodbine’s Display by 5 1/2 widening lengths. A son of Tiznow owned by Gary and Mary West, Tiz Blessed has worked six times at the Palm Meadows training center this winter but only once since Jan. 24.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – One horse who will be conspicuous by his absence when entries are drawn here Wednesday for Saturday’s Grade 2 Fountain of Youth is Dialed In. Trainer Nick Zito said he and owner Bob LaPenta both agreed that passing the race is in the best interest of their colt in light of his huge performance winning the Grade 3 Holy Bull in only his second career start here last month.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Even though trainer Bob Baffert puts The Factor on the same plane as champion Uncle Mo when it comes to raw talent, he and co-owner George Bolton are being realistic about how to proceed with The Factor, desirous of giving him a chance to go two turns, but sensitive to not ruin him on a difficult, perhaps quixotic, quest to make the Kentucky Derby.
ARCADIA, Calif. -- The Factor, stamping himself as one of the fastest 3-year-olds in training, rocketed to the front and never looked back when capturing the Grade 2, $150,000 San Vicente Stakes over seven furlongs on Sunday at Santa Anita.
Over a track that promoted front-runners all day, The Factor was hustled to the front by jockey Martin Garcia, who was following the instructions of trainer Bob Baffert.
The Factor, making his first start since his sensational maiden win on opening day of Santa Anita’s meet nearly two months ago, used his speed to run away from the competition in Sunday’s Grade 2, $150,000 San Vicente Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.-Salty Wave is a turf sprint specialist who might be better on dirt. She won the richest race of her career Sunday at Oaklawn in the $60,000 Spring Fever, when she darted to a 1 1/4-length win over Stephanie Got Even, who was seeking her sixth straight win. It was another half-length back in third to Honey Bunch.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - “I left my buggy at Pompano” was trainer Tom Proctor’s initial response to the trotter-like pace that ultimately led to his Keertana registering a game half-length decision over longshot Zapparition in Sunday’s $100,000 The Very One Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
