Gulfstream Park has named Caton Bredar as the executive producer of the track's newly formed media development department during the 2010 meet, which opens on Jan. 3.
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Sam P. was pulled up by jockey Calvin Borel shortly after finishing seventh in the Prairie Bayou Stakes on Saturday at Turfway Park and was vanned off. The 5-year-old horse, however, suffered no injuries whatsoever, according to Buff Bradley, the trainer of Sam P.
"He's back training like a million dollars," Bradley said early Wednesday. "Calvin was just being cautious."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Citing a "potential data error with its new online box office," Churchill Downs announced Wednesday morning that online sales of a limited number of tickets to the 2010 Kentucky Oaks and Derby have been delayed indefinitely.
The tickets were scheduled to go on sale Wednesday at noon Eastern, but about an hour before the sales were to start, the company put out a media release saying the new sales website, tickets.churchilldowns.com, had been found to have "potential customer service issues." A date and time for the sales has not been set.
MIAMI - Calder officials announced Wednesday that they have canceled both the $100,000 Tropical Turf and My Charmer handicaps that had originally been scheduled but postponed on Dec. 5 due to a quarantine that restricted travel in and out of the barn area. Both the Tropical Turf and My Charmer are Grade 3 events.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Bob Baffert had a dilemma on his hands. He needed to get important workouts into several horses Tuesday, but the horses were stabled at Santa Anita, whose main track had drainage problems that closed the track Sunday and curtailed training availability Monday.
MIAMI - Nominations are out for the three graded stakes on the docket here at Calder on Dec. 26, and from the looks of things, local fans are in for some real post-Christmas joy.
The Grade 2 W.L. McKnight highlights the card and will feature the appearance of two-time defending champion Presious Passion, who will make his first start since his courageous second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Trainer Mary Hartmann has already declared her intention to bring Presious Passion back to try for the three-peat in the 1 1/2-mile McKnight.
Euroears has undergone two leg surgeries and twice had layoffs of more than eight months. So when his name failed to appear in the entries for Saturday's Bonapaw Stakes at Fair Grounds, a race to which Euroears tentatively had been pointed, and since Euroears hasn't posted a published work since winning the Nov. 26 Thanksgiving Handicap, one might have assumed the worst.
The next stop for Sourdough Sam is the Derby Trail.
The talented 2-year-old colt passed his most recent test, winning the one-mile $64,100 Gold Rush Stakes at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.
His trainer, Dean Pederson, said the Jan. 16 California Derby seemed the logical next start for Sourdough Sam, a son of Decarchy who has three wins and a troubled second in his brief career.
Undefeated Smoken Sham ($3) rallied strongly to win his third straight race in the $21,050 Bill Wineberg Stakes, capping a big day for trainer Ben Root, who saddled three winners Monday during Oregon Championship Day at Portland Meadows.
In addition to Smoken Sham, Root saddled winners with Shame on Rosie ($6.60) in the $25,350 Janet Wineberg Stakes and Nikki S. ($3) in the $10,800 Hers. All three were favored.
