OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Greg Sacco will be looking for a stakes sweep on Saturday at Monmouth Park in the $70,000 colt and filly divisions of the Jersey Juvenile for 2-year-olds.
With the Monmouth season soon coming to an end, this is the last major event of the year for New Jersey-breds.
When handicapping the two divisions, you have to circle Sacco’s three runners as live contenders in the six-furlong races
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Graham Motion has nominated plenty of horses to stakes races here at Woodbine Racetrack this year but has had only one entrant, as Gypsy’s Warning finished fifth in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly on July 18.
On Saturday, Motion hopes to be on hand when Smart Bid becomes his second starter of the meeting in the $150,000 Autumn for 3-year-olds and upward.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Isabella Bay ran down Dreamy Moonlite in the final strides to take the $126,200 South Ocean Stakes on Wednesday night at Woodbine Racetrack.
Isabella Bay got away slowly under Chantal Sutherland, and was rated near the back of the pack, while Zee Beauty set a fast pace in the 1 1/16-mile test for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Zenyatta took one look at the attractive pink-and-white floral arrangement delivered to her Wednesday at Hollywood Park before deciding what to do – she reached out and took a big bite.
“Wait a minute,” trainer John Shirreffs said. “Don’t let her eat it, until I get a picture of it.”
Racing’s queen has returned home, and Zenyatta remains the same playful ham she was even before she captivated the sport with a gallant runner-up finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
The New Jersey Racing Commission on Wednesday approved 141 live Thoroughbred racing dates for 2011, in a decision that allows racing interests to comply with state law while seeking changes to statutes that enforce minimum live-racing dates.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Lookin At Lucky has returned to Hollywood Park, where trainer Bob Baffert and the colt’s owners soon will decide the 3-year-old colt’s future after his fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Baffert was asked Wednesday if Lookin At Lucky will have a 4-year-old campaign.
“Right now, I’d say yes,” he said.
Baffert left room to wiggle.
“There have been serious inquiries concerning his stallion career,” Baffert said. “We’ll see how he comes back; our other option is the Malibu.”
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – No one hit the pick six for the third straight racing day at Aqueduct on Wednesday, resulting in a $168,769 carryover into Thursday’s card.
Favorites were blanked in Wednesday’s sequence of To the Point ($9.90), Premium Wine ($7.90), Ambidaxtrous ($10.40), Six Flings ($34.40), Abilio ($8.60), and First Day ($25.40).
The 5-of-6 consolation paid $8,912.
The pick six on Thursday comprises races 4-9.
Delaware Park managed to record gains in average daily all-sources handle at its 2010 meet, which ended last Saturday.
According to figures released by the track on Wednesday, the average daily all-sources handle climbed 3 percent, from $1,550,256 in 2009 to $1,602,401.
Delaware’s total handle of $181,071,299 for 113 days represented a 7 percent increase from the 2009 meet, which had 109 racing days.
Wasted Tears has been training like a mare on a mission. One of the nation’s top turf runners, she has turned in a series of bullet works at her Retama Park base and is scheduled to ship next week to Hollywood Park for the Grade 1, $250,000 Matriarch on Nov. 26.
“We’re planning for California,” said Bart Evans, who owns and trains Wasted Tears. “We’d be looking at getting there a week before the race, on the 19th. We might work her a little bit out there, if she so desires. That’s what we did at Del Mar. We blew her out a little bit.”
