ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The lone non-claiming contest on Thursday’s eight-race card at Woodbine is a maiden special for Ontario-sired fillies and mares. The uninspiring group will divvy up a hefty $57,000 purse in the five-furlong dash.
Lovely Quid should be prominent under Emile Ramsammy, who was aboard for each of her three starts.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The ex-claimer Quick Enough won his first stakes in Monday’s $100,000 Morvich Handicap at Hollywood Park at an ideal time.
The winner of the Grade 3 Morvich earned a berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6 through the Breeders’ Cup’s Win and You’re In program, subject to the payment of entry fees.
ELMONT, N.Y. - The pick six went unhit for a second straight card Monday at Belmont Park, resulting in a carryover of $128,318 entering Thursday's card. Following a six-day week, there is no racing at Belmont Tuesday or Wednesday.
With an overflow of entries, Delaware Park decided to split the Rosenna Stakes into two divisions, but when Monday's races were rained off the turf, the number of actual runners in the Rosenna's two divisions wouldn't even have filled one race. Just five horses ran in the first Rosenna division, race 6, and five more in the second, race 8.
ELMONT, N.Y. - On Columbus Day, trainer Graham Motion discovered he has another turf stakes filly in his care in Aruna.
Forced to rally four wide entering the stretch of Belmont Park's Widener turf course, Aruna, under Ramon Dominguez, ran past the pacesetting Ultimate Class just outside the sixteenth pole and galloped home a three-length winner of Monday's $100,000 Pebbles Stakes. Bet on the Blue, who raced in third position early, finished second, one-length clear of Sea Road.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Bear's Peak wore down favored Altius in the final strides to win his maiden in style Monday at Woodbine in the $127,000 Bull Page Stakes.
Bear's Peak had an eventful trip in his only other start, and wound up a close fifth in that restricted maiden special. He faced Ontario-sired 2-year-olds again in the six-furlong Bull Page, and parlayed a wide-stalking trip into a neck victory under Patrick Husbands in 1:09.99.
STICKNEY, Ill. – Their bankrolls fattened and reputations enhanced, New Yorkers Redding Colliery and Yankee Fourtune rolled back into Belmont Park on Monday morning after travelling by van from Hawthorne Race Course.
Redding Colliery won the Oct. 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup, Yankee Fourtune the Hawthorne Derby on Saturday. Plans rarely come off so well as the one trainer Kiaran McLaughlin formed when he decided to send the two horses here nearly two weeks ago.
“We might be sending that crew out to open a division there,” McLaughlin joked. “We really like Hawthorne.”
OKLAHOMA CITY – Pleasant Prince earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 100 for his win Sunday in the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park and on Monday shipped back to the Keeneland base of his trainer, Wesley Ward.
Pleasant Prince’s next start is likely to come in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.