May One is a $5,000 claim turned golden. The winner of three of four starts since being haltered in August, she is one of the top contenders Friday in a $40,000 optional claiming race for fillies and mares that tops the card at Fair Grounds.
The turf race will be run at about a mile and a sixteenth has a purse of $51,000. It is the richest offering on a program that also includes a first-level allowance sprint for fillies and mares. First post is 12:40 p.m. Central.
Dreamsrunwild, who lost all chance in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot when carried to the outside rail in an incident on the final turn, will likely make his next start in the Grade 3, $100,000 Lecomte at Fair Grounds, said his trainer, Steve Duke.
The mile and 40-yard Lecomte will be run Jan. 22 and is the first local prep for the Louisiana Derby.
Dreamsrunwild was racing behind Aces N Kings in the Nov. 20 Jackpot when that horse lost his rider, Calvin Borel, and darted out in a move that carried Dreamsrunwild well wide in the mile and a sixteenth race.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Three-year-olds are always the focus of attention during the Gulfstream Park winter season, and the first major action in the division will come in Friday’s eighth, a one-mile, entry-level allowance test that drew a field of 10.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Second last time out in the CashCall Futurity, J P’s Gusto worked an easy half-mile in 48.80 seconds on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
“A nice work,” trainer David Hofmans said. “I’m just waiting for something next month. I haven’t decided which race yet.”
ARCADIA, Calif. - Three horses and their riders went down in a collision during training hours at Santa Anita on Wednesday morning, but, remarkably, none of the horses or their riders were injured in the ugly-looking incident.
The accident happened around 7:20 a.m. when an unraced filly trained by Richard Mandella who had been schooling at the gate at the six-furlong pole bolted into the path of a pair of horses trained by David Hofmans. The pair had just completed a workout and were galloping out around the clubhouse turn.
ARCADIA, Calif. – With that oversized furry hat he wears on cold mornings, like Wednesday, trainer Julio Canani is the center of attention. He’ll occupy the same spot in Friday’s seventh race at Santa Anita, whether he runs both Blue Chagall and Ryehill Dreamer, or holds out Ryehill Dreamer for his first start on dirt in the Grade 2, $150,000 San Pasqual Stakes on Saturday.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – There were only six horses in the nondescript field of conditioned-claiming fillies, and yet far more fans crowded around the picturesque walking ring than what might otherwise be expected. It was the first race on the first day of the 2011 meet at Gulfstream Park, and the anticipation was plainly tangible.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mountain Town, runner-up to Uncle Mo in the Grade 1 Champagne in his second career start, made a fast track look even faster Wednesday morning when working six furlongs in 1:11.52 shortly after the renovation break.
Going in company with Sr. Henry, an older allowance winner claimed for $75,000 last summer at Saratoga, Mountain Town posted splits of 23.22 seconds, 45.81, and 58.56 before edging about a length clear of his stablemate at the wire.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Hastings will run 41 stakes totaling more than $2.5 million in 2011. That represents a 23 percent increase from 2010 when $2.1 million was paid out in stakes purses. The additional money is in line with the overall purse increase for the 71-day meet that begins on April 16 and finishes Oct. 2. The additional purse money is the result of the provincial government’s increased allotment of slots revenue to racetracks.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Robert Landry, one of most successful and respected riders in Canadian racing, has retired after a 29-year career.
Landry, a 48-year-old native of Toronto, recorded 2,045 victories from 17,656 rides, and his mounts earned nearly $70 million. He captured the 2004 Queen’s Plate for Chiefswood Stable aboard Niigon and recently became the racing manager for Chiefswood.
