Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, who has been suspended since March for failing to appear at a hearing with California stewards, is scheduled to appear before Del Mar stewards on July 29 regarding a complaint issued by California Horse Racing Board investigators regarding alcohol use at an RV park on Del Mar property last November.
Desormeaux was suspended by Santa Anita stewards on March 4 for failing to appear at a hearing the preceding day regarding the racing board’s complaint.
Becca Taylor, a four-time stakes winner who is a nose away from being undefeated after 10 starts, is unlikely to run in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland this fall.
Becca Taylor is unbeaten in graded stakes, having won the Grade 3 Desert Stormer Stakes at six furlongs at Santa Anita on June 4 and the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs at Los Alamitos on Monday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Nest, the Grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly who finished second in the Belmont Stakes, will most likely make her next start in the Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga on July 23, trainer Todd Pletcher said Friday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Munnys Gold, who earned a 101 Beyer Speed Figure in her 14 1/2-length debut victory at Monmouth Park on June 17, has a bruise in a hind foot and will not run in Thursday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Schuylerville Stakes, the opening-day feature at Saratoga Race Course.
Munnys Gold has not worked back since the maiden victory and has been walking for a few days. She remains at Monmouth Park.
Reigning Filly and Mare Sprint champ Ce Ce was the star of the show last weekend at Gulfstream Park when successfully and easily defending her title in the Grade 2 Princess Rooney, a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. But Ce Ce wasn’t the only horse on the card with designs on the Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 5, a date trainer Jorge Delgado has circled on his calender for Willy Boi, impressive winner of the Grade 3 Smile Sprint earlier on the card.
Hawthorne Racecourse concluded a 28-day spring meeting on June 25 during which, the track and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association announced Wednesday, there were no catastrophic breakdowns during racing or training.
There will be no sweep of the Ruidoso Triple Crown for 2-year-olds this year.
Otts Boy, the winner of the $1 million Ruidoso Futurity on June 12, was not entered in time trials for the Rainbow Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Friday and Saturday. Owner and breeder Luke Goebel said on Monday that Otts Boy was held out of the Rainbow Futurity trials to prepare for the third race in the series, the $3 million All American Futurity which has time trials on Aug. 19-20 and a final on Sept. 5.
Otts Boy, trained by Toby Keeton, is unbeaten in three starts.
Trainer Marvin Johnson has been summarily suspended by stewards at Horseshoe Indianapolis as has a veterinarian he employs, Dr. Cynthia Loomis.
Johnson confirmed in a phone interview Wednesday that the suspension relates to the possibility that Loomis treated one of his horses on Monday, the same day the horse was entered to race. Race-day treatments other than Lasix are prohibited. Both Johnsons runners were scratched Monday, and Johnson said racing officials took the two horses to the receiving barn to have blood drawn for testing.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Though Chad Brown has 10 of the 14 fillies and mares nominated to the Grade 1 Diana at Saratoga on July 16, he will not be the only trainer with runners in the race.
Trainer Charlie Appleby plans to run Creative Flair in the Diana, run at 1 1/8 miles on the turf. Last year, Appleby ran one-two in the Diana with Althiqa and Summer Romance, ending a string of five successive years in which Brown won the Diana.
Creative Flair is already in New York, having arrived with the two 3-year-olds Appleby plans to run in this weekend’s Belmont Derby and Belmont Oaks.
