INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The vastly improved Comma to the Top won his fourth straight race, and first in graded company, leading from start to finish in the Grade 3, $100,000 Generous Stakes for 2-year-olds on the turf on Saturday at Hollywood Park.
PHOENIX - First-timer Los Lunas posted a big upset Saturday at Turf Paradise in the $45,600 Arizona Breeders Futurity filly division, while Jamaican Memories avenged a defeat at the hands of Montellano when winning the $54,179 colt and gelding division.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Monday’s second Annual XpressBet Jockey Challenge at Portland Meadows was canceled Saturday evening when the Southern California riders scheduled to compete said they would not make the trip north.
Temperatures dipped into the 20’s in Portland last week leading to the cancellation of racing Tuesday and forcing the track to cancel after only one race Wednesday due to track conditions. But the temperatures had climbed back to the 40’s by Saturday and 45 horses worked at the track without incident Saturday morning.
Hayley’s Halo won her second straight stakes of the Zia Park meet on Saturday, when she was up for a neck win over Petition the Lady in the $55,360 Distaff. It was another 1 1/4 lengths back in third to No Other Tone.
Hayley’s Halo ($12) covered the six furlongs for fillies and mares in 1:08.99. Alejandro Medellin rode the winner for Lathrop Hoffman and trainer Henry Dominguez.
Earlier this meet, Hayley’s Halo won the $60,000 Chaves County.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Pender Harbour ($21.30) took the long way home en route to his first stakes score in the $128,200 Kingarvie at Woodbine Racetrack Saturday.
Pender Harbour went four wide on the first turn in the 1 1/16-mile test for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds, and eventually commenced a five-wide rally on the far turn under Slade Callaghan. He took dead aim at pacemaker Altius in the stretch, and made the lead nearing the sixteenth pole before drawing clear for a 2 1/4-length tally in 1:45.60.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Rare is the horse who captures a Grade 2 race to lose its maiden condition, but that's what Santiva did Saturday in emerging best in a thrilling three-horse finish to capture the $165,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes under the lights at Churchill Downs.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Apprentice jockey Jason Gracia was listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with a concussion and broken ribs after being thrown from his mount in Saturday's third race at Aqueduct, according to his agent, Jorge Velasquez.
Meanwhile, fellow rider Jose Bermudez, who was involved in the same spill, was undergoing tests at North Shore Medical Center, complaining of rib soreness, according to New York Racing Association officials.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - When trainer Barclay Tagg talked owner Charles Fipke out of running Jersey Town in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, it was with the idea that the Grade 1 Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile would come up an easier spot.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In the last start of her training career, Cindy Jones won her first Grade 1 stakes.
Overcoming a four-wide trip under Terry Thompson, No Such Word joined the leaders at the three-eighths pole, then ran away from Awesome Maria in the final three-sixteenths of a mile to win the $250,000 Gazelle Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Julien Leparoux and Kent Desormeaux have been suspended three racing days apiece for their roles in the disqualifications of their mounts in the Clark Handicap on Friday at Churchill Downs.
Leparoux finished first aboard Successful Dan in the Grade 1 race, and Desormeaux was fourth on Demarcation. Successful Dan was disqualified to third and Demarcation to last for separate incidents nearing the eighth pole.
