AUBURN, Wash. – Breeders in the nation’s Northwest corner bucked industry trends Tuesday at the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association’s annual summer yearling sale. The average sale price increased 26 percent from 2009, and the median was up 22 percent.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jockey Robert Landry has put away his tack for this season but is intent on returning to action here at Woodbine next spring.
Landry cited issues involving his diet and weight reduction as the reasons behind his decision to take a break from the saddle.
“I’ve got to change my diet,” said Landry, who will be 48 years old on Sept. 18. “When you’re riding, you’re always pushing the limit. You’re dehydrated and you’re starving yourself; you only eat one big meal a day.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Absolutelystriking should be the clear-cut favorite in Friday’s seventh race at Woodbine, but there are questions surrounding that lightly raced Sam-Son Farm homebred.
Absolutelystriking had been idle for nearly a year before his authoritative tally in a seven-furlong maiden special Aug. 26, for which he earned a solid Beyer Speed Figure of 85. Speed was very effective that week, with the movable rail in the outermost lane on a firm turf course, and he made all the running en route to a 5 1/4-length victory.
AUBURN, Wash. – Blame the Jockey could have things his way Friday in the feature race at Emerald Downs. He’s the only late-runner in a five-horse field of 3-year-olds going six furlongs for a $25,000 claiming price. It’s the seventh of eight races on a card that begins at 6 p.m. Pacific.
Striking Time, who has been thoroughly dominant in 2-year-old races at Marquis Downs, will be looking for his fourth win in as many outings in Friday’s $25,000 Prairie Lily Sales Stakes.
The 6 1/2-furlong Prairie Lily, the feature on the penultimate weekend of the 30-day Marquis Downs meeting, attracted a field of seven who went through the local yearling sale, and Striking Time looms a prohibitive favorite.
POMONA, Calif. – California horse racing returns to traditional footing Thursday when Fairplex Park launches its 72nd autumn meet on the five-eighths mile dirt track that is home of the Los Angeles County Fair.
Handicappers challenged by the high number (13) of pick six carryovers during Del Mar’s seven-week summer meet will find either comfort or tedium at Fairplex, where the combined win rate of Thoroughbred favorites the past three seasons is 39 percent.
Mark Guidry might have retired from the saddle in 2007, but he spent much of this past spring race riding. But it was not in the conventional sense. Guidry worked on the movie “Secretariat” for about six weeks during part of its shoot at the Evangeline Downs Training Center near Lafayette, La.
The film is now about four weeks from release, and Guidry and several other Louisiana-based horsemen are anxious to see the finished product. Guidry had helped put together a group of locals to participate in the racing scenes, among them Kerwin Clark, Ricky Faul, and C.J. Woodley.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Doug O’Neill, the leading trainer this summer at Del Mar, has been cited for having his horse Argenta test for a high amount of total carbon dioxide (TCO2), commonly referred to as a milkshake, the California Horse Racing Board announced Tuesday.
Argenta finished eighth in the sixth race on Aug. 25 at Del Mar.
POMONA, Calif. – Jockey Martin Pedroza has won a record 606 races at Fairplex Park, but he has never ridden in a match race.
That changes Thursday when the Los Angeles County Fair race meet begins and Pedroza meets former Fairplex kingpin David Flores in match race billed “King of the Ring.”
“It’s just another race,” Pedroza said. He was hiding a grin.
Pedroza, undisputed king of Fairplex with 11 consecutive titles and 12 overall, knows his way around the tight turns of the five-eighth-mile dirt track. What is his secret?