Leading 3-year-old turf filly Spendarella has recovered from her trip to Royal Ascot, worked sharply on July 25 at Fair Hill, and is being pointed to the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks on August 20, trainer Graham Motion said Friday.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Going a mile and one-eighth around two turns against older, open-company allowance horses wasn’t exactly what trainer David Donk had in mind for the third career start of his undefeated New York-bred filly Fingal’s Cave.
Fri, 07/29/2022 - 15:11
Shedaresthedevil is the top nominee for the top stakes next week at Del Mar, where the three-time Grade 1 winner will seek her second consecutive victory in the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch.
The $400,000 Hirsch, a mile and one-sixteenth on dirt Aug. 6, is a Win and You’re In for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and one of five Del Mar stakes Friday through Sunday, Aug. 5-7. Nominations for the five stakes closed this week. Below are short previews.
Fri, 07/29/2022 - 14:43
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Overshadowed by the euphoria of Classic Causeway’s upset victory in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby on July 9, was the disappointing ninth-place finish in the same race of stablemate Tiz the Bomb, who was beaten 13 1/2 lengths as the 5-1 third choice in the 12-horse field.
Much was expected from Tiz the Bomb since he was previously a stakes winner on turf and finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf last November at Del Mar.
Ken McPeek, the trainer of Tiz the Bomb, said that the horse did not ship well from Kentucky to New York.
This weekend, New Mexico-based trainer Todd Fincher can be found in several places, such as airports throughout the Southwest, the paddock at Del Mar and Ruidoso Downs, and driving the highways leading to and from Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.
Fincher’s racing week began in the best place possible, the winner’s circle at Del Mar on Thursday after an impressive win by Slammed in an allowance race for fillies and mares.
SARATOA SPRINGS, N.Y. – An emotional George Weaver reported Thursday that his wife, Cindy Hutter, has started to show some progress in her long battle to recover from a significant brain injury suffered in a riding mishap on the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga on July 3.
Hutter is currently recuperating at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where she was transferred from Albany Medical Center a little over a week ago.
Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., has added nine stakes to its schedule for the 2022-23 season opening in December, and the move expands the rich calendar to 45 stakes worth a record $13.7 million, the track announced Thursday.
Oaklawn opens for a 68-date on Dec. 9 and will race through May 6.
Churchill Downs Inc. had net income of $339.3 million in the second quarter of 2022, a record, though those results reflected an estimated net gain of $193.6 million on the sale of 115 acres of land on its Calder property in Miami, according to financial statements released on Wednesday.