VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Woombroom Express will try and win his first race of the year when he drops into a $35,000 optional race that will serve as Sunday’s feature race at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew six horses and goes as race 4 on the eight-race card, which begins at 1:40 p.m. Pacific.
Mizz Molly Molly will try and atone for her third-place finish as the heavy favorite in a $20,000 claiming race Aug. 4 when she runs in a similar race at Northlands Park Sunday. The one-mile feature for fillies and mares drew seven horses and goes as race 7.
Driven by Seattle and Play Nine, first and second in the same race Mizz Molly Molly exits, have also been entered. Making it difficult for Mizz Molly Molly to make amends is Lucy Got Lucky, a winner of three races while competing on the much tougher Southern California circuit this year.
AUBURN, Wash. – Nine horses were entered to run in Sunday’s $75,000 Emerald Derby. Five have a legitimate chance and two stand out. When the dust settles Sunday evening, it’s likely either Newfound Man or Posse Power will have clinched honors as the top 3-year-old at Emerald Downs.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - After wrestling with In Te Domine for more than six furlongs of Thursday’s $100,000 Statue of Liberty Stakes at Saratoga, jockey Ramon Dominguez was wondering what response he would get when he finally asked the 3-year-old filly to run.
It was instant and it was effective.
Rallying five wide into the stretch, In Te Domine seized the lead outside the sixteenth pole and went on to a three-quarter-length victory over Bretton Woods, who outfinished Raffie’s Rose by a head for second.
The uncoupled entry of Reach One More and From the Ashes, both trained by Chuck Turco, are the headliners in a field of five older Nebraska-breds set to go six furlongs in the $15,000 Amadevil Stakes at Columbus.
Reach One More has won three straight stakes in Nebraska this year but is unlikely to run in this spot. He was a late entry to fill the race, which under the horsemen’s contract must be used with five entries. His stablemate From the Ashes should take up the slack, although he comes into this race off an eighth in the Omaha Stakes at Horsemen’s Park.
Leading trainer Robert Gorham will saddle half of the six-horse field, including the favored entry of Meadow Wise and Bishop Casey, in Saturday’s $20,000 Michigan Breeders’ Cup Handicap at Pinnacle Race Course. For Michigan-bred 3-year-olds and older, the 44th running of the 1 1/16-mile fixture will be the eighth race on the card and is scheduled for 5:46 p.m. Eastern.
DEL MAR, Calif.-Gozzip Girl’s first start in California in more than a year in Sunday’s $250,000 John Mabee Stakes at Del Mar will be a starting-over point in the career of the 4-year-old filly.
The Grade 2 Mabee will be her first start for Calder-based trainer Marty Wolfson. Gozzip Girl was previously trained by Tom Albertrani, who guided her to 5 wins in 12 starts and four stakes wins.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After a spring in which he won the Florida Derby and had horses finish in the money in all three Triple Crown races, trainer Nick Zito appeared to have a lot to look forward to this summer.
But Kentucky Derby runner-up Ice Box floundered while sixth in the Haskell, Preakness third-place finisher Jackson Bend was next-to-last in the Pegasus, and Belmont Stakes runner-up Fly Down was a troubled fifth in the Jim Dandy. Adding to Zito’s woes this summer is the fact he has gotten off to an uncharacteristically poor 0-for-19 start at this meet.