OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though overshadowed by the Breeders’ Cup, Saturday’s graded stakes tripleheader is the second-biggest day of Aqueduct’s fall meet.
The Tempted and Nashua, a pair of one-mile stakes out of the chute for 2-year-olds, are carded as the fourth and sixth races; the Red Smith Handicap, the last graded turf stakes of the season for males in New York, is the seventh of eight races on the card.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Marty Wolfson believed First Passage rated a decent chance to pull a huge upset in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Friday at Churchill Downs, but with the filly highly likely to be excluded as an also-eligible, Wolfson has refocused his sights on the Grade 2 Chilukki Stakes on Saturday at Churchill.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Three times, Goldikova has flown across the Atlantic Ocean from France to the United States. Twice she has gone home a Breeders' Cup Mile winner. If it happens again this year - and this will almost certainly be Goldikova's last trip overseas - the mighty miler housed in a modest, plain-bay body will make history.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It was a busy Thursday morning for Breeders’ Cup Turf favorite Workforce, who galloped and had a short breeze on the Churchill turf course. But the condition of that turf course still troubles Workforce’s connections, and Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, said after training hours that Workforce’s participation in the Turf remained in doubt.
“It’s still a possibility,” Grimthorpe said when asked if Workforce still could be scratched because of what his connections consider to be hard ground.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The three horses who finished in front of Clearance Clarence in the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes at Hollywood Park on Oct. 2 – Jaycito, J P’s Gusto, and Riveting Reason – are entered in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. − Three times in his career, Apollitical Jess has been the fastest qualifier for a major Quarter Horse race. He held that honor for the Los Alamitos Two Million last December and the All American Derby at Ruidoso Downs in September but finished second in the final of those races.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Indian Gracey was to be scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Friday because of soreness in her right front foot, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Thursday morning.
Hollendorfer first noticed the problem on Wednesday morning, but wanted to wait a day to see if the filly responded to treatment. At the time, Hollendorfer thought there was a chance she would respond and make the race. But by Thursday morning, he realized he was running out of time, and decided to pass.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Impossible Time will stretch out to 1 1/4 miles Saturday at Woodbine in the Maple Leaf Stakes, which has also lured the versatile European filly Pachattack. The $175,000 Maple Leaf heads an excellent 11-race Breeders’ Cup Day card that commences at 1 p.m.
Impossible Time has only lost once in six starts at the meet, which was a runner-up finish in the seven-furlong Zadracarta Stakes on the grass. She won each of her last three starts at 1 1/16 miles – an optional claimer, the Victoriana Stakes on turf, and the Classy ‘N Smart Stakes.
