NEW ORLEANS – The gang’s all here – or most of them are. Trainers Tom Amoss, Steve Asmussen, and Al Stall, New Orleans standbys, will be well represented on opening day of the Fair Grounds meet Thursday. And the fact that opening day is Thursday − the traditional Thanksgiving opener rather than the early-November start employed the last two seasons – probably has something to do with that.
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VINTON, La. – Gourmet Dinner and Decisive Moment could get a rematch at Gulfstream Park.
The one-two finishers from Saturday’s Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot are both being considered for a start in the Grade 3, $400,000 Holy Bull on Jan. 30. The horses left Louisiana on Sunday for their Calder headquarters, with Gourmet Dinner’s 2 1/4-length win in the Jackpot earned him a career-high Beyer Figure of 93.
Based on how thoroughly Quantum Miss dominated open company maiden special weight company, she looks like a huge threat when she faces 11 Pennsylvania-bred foes in Wednesday night’s $75,000 Blue Mountain Juvenile for 2-year-old fillies at Penn National.
The six-furlong Juvenile goes as race 5 on a nine-race card that begins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – There will be nine races on Wednesday night’s card at Woodbine Racetrack, instead of the usual eight, and Lookinoutforangels returns from a layoff in the finale, a seven-furlong Ontario-sired allowance for fillies and mares.
Lookinoutforangels went to the sidelines for nearly a year after her victory in an Ontario-sired allowance for nonwinners of two in August of 2009, and she missed the board in her first three starts at this stand.
Local jockeys Joe Crispin, Mark Anderson, Javier Matias and Troy Stillwell will represent Portland Meadows against Team Southern California in the annual XpressBet Jockey Challenge on Monday, Nov. 29.
Representing Southern California in the four-race competition with $20,000 in prize money at stake will be Joel Rosario, David Flores, Joe Talamo, and Martin Pedroza.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Eddie Kenneally swept the two allowance races on the Sunday card at Churchill Downs, and he’s coming right back to try for something similar when he sends out major contenders in two of the three allowances that dot the Wednesday card.
Kenneally will saddle Isidora in the richest race of the day, the third, a $66,060 main-track mile, before securing the tack on Flask for a $63,620 sprint that goes as the ninth of 10 races. Julien Leparoux has both calls.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The injured jockey Garrett Gomez returns to riding on a regular basis in Southern California on Sunday, and will ride Haimish Hy in the $250,000 Hollywood Derby that day.
The Grade 1 Hollywood Derby is run over 1 1/4 miles on turf and will be Haimish Hy’s first start at that level. Trained by Art Sherman, Haimish Hy has won 4 of 9 starts and $137,980.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With regular rider Calvin Borel sidelined through the end of the year with the injury he sustained Saturday, Tony Farina will get the mount on Brass Hat for the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs on Friday.
Borel sustained fractures to his lower jaw in a spill at Delta Downs and is expected to be out of action for at least five or six weeks. Borel incurred the injury when his mount in the $1 million Delta Jackpot, Aces N Kings, threw him approaching the quarter pole. Borel then was kicked by a trailing horse.
Michael Gill, a former leading owner, and a trainer he employed, Anthony Adamo, have filed a lawsuit accusing officials of Pennsylvania's racing commission of deprivation of their due process rights and other abuses related to their ejections from Penn National Race Course early this year.
The suit, filed on Nov. 11 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, seeks monetary damages for the alleged abuses and the damage they have caused to the reputations of both Gill and Adamo, along with attorney’s costs.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Global Hunter, who suffered a severe ankle injury after winning the Grade 2 American Handicap at Hollywood Park last July, was recently released from the Alamo Pintado Equine Clinic in Los Olivos, Calif., and will stand the 2011 breeding season at Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, Calif.
Global Hunter will stand for $3,500, with the hope that he will be bred to approximately 30 mares, according to trainer A.C. Avila.
Global Hunter has been at Magali Farms since early November, and was inspected over the weekend by Dr. Doug Herthel of Alamo Pintado.