Fri, 11/26/2010 - 13:19

Bear’s Future gets another chance in Display

Michael Burns
Bear's Future wins the Swynford earlier in the Woodbine meet.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Reade Baker, who won the 2009 Display Stakes with Bear’s Hard Ten, will send out Bear’s Future and Moonshine Mullin in Sunday’s Display, a 1 1/16-mile event for 2-year-olds at Woodbine Racetrack

Bear’s Future was the leader of the local 2-year-old division late in the summer. A son of freshman sire Rockport Harbor, Bear’s Future crushed a modest field in his seven-furlong debut Aug. 13. A month later, he took the seven-furlong Swynford Stakes by 3 1/2 lengths, with a Beyer Speed Figure of 75.

Fri, 11/26/2010 - 12:39

Casse enjoys another big Woodbine meet

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Mark Casse will be leaving on Monday for Florida, where he has stalls at Palm Meadows and owns Moonshadow Farm in Ocala. And, Casse will be heading out with the certain knowledge that he will be Woodbine’s leading trainer in both races won and money won for the fourth straight year.

Casse had won 83 races and $4.6 million heading into Friday’s program. His previous bests were 85 wins and $5.76 million, in 2007.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 17:24

Cost of Freedom leads all the way in Underwood

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Cost of Freedom scores a front-running victory in Thursday's Grade 3 Vernon Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – At the age of 7, Cost of Freedom is showing no signs of slowing down. Instead, he seems to be running as well this fall as he has in the last few years.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 16:49

Dundalk Dust splashes to Falls City score

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Dundalk Dust, idle since winning the Falls City in November, has set her early-season sights on the Applie Blossom at Oaklawn Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dundalk Dust, a 3-year-old Illinois-bred filly who was last of six down the backstretch, blew away her five older rivals with a sensational stretch run Thursday in a rain-soaked 95th running of the Grade 2, $161,250 Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 16:32

Mambo Galliano cruises in Thanksgiving Handicap

Lynn Roberts
Mambo Galliano, with James Graham up, wins the Thanksgiving Handicap.

NEW ORLEANS – Louie Roussel used to own Fair Grounds Race Course. Thursday, on opening day at Fair Grounds, the Roussel’s Mambo Galliano owned the Thanksgiving Handicap, scoring a four-length victory in the $60,000 sprint stakes.

Roussel owns and trains Mambo Galliano, a 4-year-old Black Mambo gelding who won his first stakes race in his 16th career start. For Roussel, the Fair Grounds stakes win was his first since the 1999-2000 season.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 15:51

Lions Story taking shot at Hollywood Derby

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – There was hope at the beginning of the year in the Jerry Hollendorfer stable that Lions Story would develop into a Triple Crown contender.

He never appeared in such races, getting stuck at the allowance level through the late winter and spring. There is just enough time this year for a derby win for Lions Story, if he can pull a surprise in Sunday’s $250,000 Hollywood Derby over 1 1/4 miles on turf.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 15:38

Endless Circle continues his climb in Fall Highweight Handicap

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Endless Circle rallies in the stretch to win the Grade 3 Fall Highweight Handicap on Thursday at Aqueduct.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Endless Circle completed the cycle from low-level claimer to graded stakes winner by rallying strongly in the stretch to win Thursday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct by two lengths over Jack On the Rocks. It was three-quarters of a length back to favored Wildcat Frankie in third.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 13:57

To Honor and Serve taking next step up

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To Honor and Serve, Jose Lezcano up, wins the Nashua.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With a returning Breeders’ Cup winner in his care, Unbridled Belle, trainer Bill Mott already has something to look forward to as the calendar inches toward 2011. On Saturday, Mott hopes to learn if his prospects for the upcoming year include a leading Kentucky Derby hopeful as well.

To Honor and Serve will seek his third consecutive victory and can stamp himself a legitimate Derby contender when he runs in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct. The race will be the colt’s first around two turns and at 1 1/8 miles.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 13:55

Court Vision gets a softer spot in Citation Handicap

Barbara D. Livingston
Court Vision will make his first start since a fifth in the BC Mile in Saturday’s Citation Handicap.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Court Vision is the only starter in Saturday’s $250,000 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park who ran in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs earlier this month.

Court Vision finished fifth, 2 3/4 lengths behind the incomparable Goldikova, who won the race for the third consecutive year. The Grade 2 Citation Handicap, run over 1 1/16 miles on turf, is a considerable drop in class for Court Vision, who won the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile in Toronto in September.

Thu, 11/25/2010 - 13:42

Southern Equine Stable playing smaller role at Fair Grounds

Barbara D. Livington
Eric Guillot will be spending most of his winter in Southern California.

NEW ORLEANS – The Southern Equine Stable of owner Michael Moreno, the second-leading owner last season at Fair Grounds, will have a diminished presence here during the 2010-2011 meet.