HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Pauline’s Pearl is nearing $1 million in earnings and could bid for the milestone next month at Oaklawn Park.
Trainer Steve Asmussen said Wednesday that the Stonestreet Stables homebred is being considered for a start in the Grade 2, $350,000 Azeri on March 12 at Oaklawn.
Pauline’s Pearl pushed her career earnings to $968,500 last month, when she won the Grade 3, $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic at Sam Houston Race Park.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – My Boy Tate will seek a third victory in the $100,000 Hollie Hughes Stakes when the 8-year-old gelding makes his fourth appearance in the six-furlong sprint for New York-breds on Saturday at Aqueduct.
My Boy Tate won the Hollie Hughes in 2018 and 2021. He finished second to Amundson in 2020.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Happy Medium, third as the 1-5 favorite in Grade 3 Toboggan on Feb. 5, could make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool here on March 5, trainer Michelle Nevin said.
Happy Medium had won three straight races in dominating fashion prior to the Toboggan. He set the pace in the Toboggan before finishing 10 1/2 lengths behind winner Drafted.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Tempt Fate is the Arkansas-bred of the year for 2021, said Deana Echols, the longtime executive secretary of the Arkansas Thoroughbred Breeders and Horsemen’s Association.
She said he will be honored at the organization’s April 15 banquet at the Oaklawn Event Center at Oaklawn Park. Echols said the guest speaker at the banquet will be Michael Blowen of Old Friends Farm.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After initially planning to run Sea Foam in Saturday’s John B. Campbell at Laurel Park, trainer Michelle Giangiulio and her owners had a change of heart and opted to give the 7-year-old New York-bred stakes winner a freshening.
Sea Foam is at the Fair Hill training center in Elkton, Md., getting four to six weeks off.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Magic Circle, the dominant winner of the Busanda Stakes here on Jan. 23, will seek to further her résumé for a potential Kentucky Oaks bid when she runs in the $250,000 Busher Invitational at Aqueduct on March 5.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Saffie Joseph Jr. was relatively light on entries as another race week began Wednesday at Gulfstream Park. Not to worry, said Joseph – he fully intends to maintain his quest in becoming the leading trainer at the championship meet for the first time.
“We had a virus go through the barn that affected us the last few weeks,” said Joseph. “I knew things would slow down a bit, but the horses are all over it now, for the most part. They’re training back, and we’re going to have a pretty big March, hopefully.”
Trainer Jeremiah Englehart on Monday began serving a seven-day suspension for an overage of the therapeutic medication prednisolone, a corticosteroid that is a Class 4 drug, the second-lowest on the classification system used by the Association of Racing Commissioners International.
Englehart was also fined $500. Englehart said he waived his right of appeal, which reduced the suspension from 10 days. Englehart currently has horses based in New York and Florida.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Drain the Clock, among the likely favorites for Saturday’s Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint, looked sharp breezing four furlongs in company in a handy 47.41 seconds here Monday, completing his final quarter in 23.75 before galloping out five furlongs in 1:00.33.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Stablemates Life Is Good and Colonel Liam were the two stars here on Pegasus World Cup Day, and they will be given the opportunity for a much bigger payday on the world stage at Meydan in Dubai on March 26. Life Is Good makes his next start in the $12 million Dubai World Cup, and Colonel Liam runs in the $5 million Dubai World Cup Turf, trainer Todd Pletcher confirmed on Monday.
