The 12-year-old Surprsinglyperfect ran his 101st and final race on Tuesday at Turf Paradise, flashing his usual strong homestretch kick to finish a driving second, beaten five lengths by the odds-on Little Trouble.
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He’s 10-1 on the morning line in a listed stakes race, so it’s fair to say that Reagan’s Wit has largely been forgotten.
That’s not so surprising. Reagan’s Wit never won a graded stakes and ended his 3-year-old campaign with a whimper, finishing sixth July 4 in the Manila Stakes at Saratoga.
Reagan’s Wit came out of the Manila with a bone chip in his ankle and makes his first start since in Saturday’s $100,000 Colonel E.R. Bradley at Fair Grounds.
Brad Cox-trained 3-year-old fillies in recent years have made hay in the Fair Grounds dirt-route stakes program. Cox has trained the Fair Grounds Oaks winner four out of the last six years and won the Rachel Alexandra three times during the last four seasons. But while Cox has runners in seven Fair Grounds races Saturday, he starts nothing in the Silverbulletday Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, a race he’s won twice the last three years.
Jockey Emisael Jaramillo has traded a position among the top 10 riders at Gulfstream Park for a similar spot at Santa Anita.
Jaramillo, 48, is riding at Santa Anita for the first time this winter. Through Sunday, he had won five races, good enough to rank in a tie for fourth in the standings after seven days of racing.
“I’m liking California,” Jaramillo said in an interview between races on Sunday.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Bill Mott sent out a pair of very impressive 3-year-old debut winners here Saturday, Chief Wallabee and Thunderously.
Chief Wallabee registered a 1 1/2-length victory going seven furlongs in the fourth race. Thunderously was an even easier five-length winner going 1 1/16 miles a couple of hours later. Both horses were ridden by jockey Junior Alvarado, who had four winners on the card.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – White Abarrio took a very important step toward defending his title in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational on Jan. 24, working four furlongs in 47.88 seconds here Sunday. The work was the most impressive for White Abarrio since he was scratched in the post parade minutes before the start of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov 1.
“He needed to get a good work in,” said trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. “He definitely moved well, seemed in good order, and hopefully it will be the right stepping-stone he needs to come back in the Pegasus.”
Express Kid, upset winner of the Springboard Mile at Remington Park on Dec. 20, has been transferred from trainer Wade Rarick to Justin Evans after being purchased for $800,000 by Brad and Sharon Kleven in a one-horse digital sale conducted by Fasig-Tipton last week.
Evans said on Sunday that he plans to start Express Kid in the $500,000 Sunland Park Derby at 1 1/16 miles in New Mexico on Feb. 15. Express Kid was based at Turf Paradise on Sunday, and was scheduled to be vanned approximately 420 miles to Sunland Park earlier this week.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Hardly a day goes by without someone asking Jeff Mullins about Queen Maxima.
Such conversations are commonplace for the trainer of a star mare who has compiled five stakes wins in turf sprints at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, and Santa Anita in the last year. The most recent came in Sunday’s Grade 3 Las Cienegas Stakes on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita.
“Anybody who is involved in this game needs to experience a horse like this,” Mullins said in the winner’s circle. “This is something else, I mean this is a once-in-a-lifetime horse.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – It has taken time, but the 5-year-old mare Paradise Lake has amassed a tidy collection of wins in the last eight months.
After winning allowance races at Santa Anita last May and October, Paradise Lake won her first stakes in Thursday’s Grade 3 Robert Frankel for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf. Paradise Lake stalked pacesetter Starry Night to early stretch and was challenged in the final sixteenth by that rival before winning by a nose.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Michael McCarthy achieved his 500th career win at Santa Anita on Thursday with Stark Contrast in the $100,000 Eddie Logan Stakes for 3-year-olds on turf.
“I’ll never make it to 1,000,” McCarthy cracked in the winner’s circle.