Blue Ribbon Downs will be shuttered following its 12-race card on Saturday, but horsemen are hopeful racing might someday return to the Sallisaw, Okla., track, which in nearly 50 years of operation has showcased such world champion Quarter Horses as Easy Jet, Gold Coast Express, and Laico Bird.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Lorna Perkins has sent out an even dozen winners this year, split evenly between Woodbine and Fort Erie.
And, Perkins would like nothing better than to notch lucky No. 13 with Freudian Fetish, an Ontario-bred filly who will be making her stakes debut in Sunday's $125,000 Ontario Lassie.
"They really didn't write any other races she could run in," said Perkins, whose filly finished third in her first try against winners in a first-level allowance last time out. "But, she ran well enough in that last to give her a shot going long again."
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - It took owner Lou Cacchio 3 1/2 hours Thursday to drive from Bensalem, Pa., to Aqueduct. Fighting Thanksgiving Day traffic proved well worth the effort.
Cacchio arrived at Aqueduct with 14 minutes to post for the , got his dark blue and metallic gold silks to jockey Jose Lezcano just in time, then settled back to watch his horse Cherokee Country rally from well off the pace to win the Grade 3 Fall Highweight by one-half length. Greenspring, making his stakes debut, got up for second, 1 1/4 lengths ahead of pacesetting longshot Hatfield.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Swift Temper was scratched this morning from the Thanksgiving Day feature at Churchill Downs, the Grade 2 Falls City Handicap, further depleting what already had been a thin race and leaving Unbridled Belle a huge favorite.
Mark Stanley, owner of Swift Temper, said the 5-year-old mare had been diagnosed with a fractured splint bone and "most likely" will be retired. "It's a shame, because we were all really looking forward to seeing her go out the right way today," said Stanley.
Thoroughbred racing returns to Sam Houston Race Park for the first time in 18 months on Friday night, and those who have not been to the track since Hurricane Ike foiled the 2008-2009 season are in for a host of changes. From a new state-of-the-art tote board to a new grandstand roof and a new date for its biggest race, the Grade 3, $200,000 Connally Turf Cup, there is a fresh look to racing in Houston.
"I think people will see a lot of physical changes and hopefully view them as improvements to the facility," said Andrea Young, president of Sam Houston.
A total of 166 broodmares, yearlings, weanlings, and stallion seasons have been cataloged for the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's annual winter mixed sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Saturday.
Major consignors to the sale include agents Ascot Stud, Cara Bloodstock, Gardiner Farm, Beth Hancock, Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, Richard Hogan and Rancho Park Management, along with Sam-Son Farm.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Life Is Sweet, winner of the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 6, may not be done racing this year.
After she worked a half-mile in 50 seconds at Hollywood Park on Wednesday, trainer John Shirreffs said the 4-year-old filly could try for her fifth stakes win of 2009 in the $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap over 1 1/16 miles on Dec. 5.
Wednesday's workout was Life Is Sweet's first since the Ladies' Classic win. Owned by breeders Marty and Pam Wygod, Life Is Sweet has won 6 of 15 starts and $1,770,810.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The winners of the twin 2-year-old stakes that opened the Churchill Downs fall meet Nov. 1 will return for what their connections hope will be the same ol' story Saturday, when a second "Stars of Tomorrow" program will close the meet.
Sassy Image, winner of the Pocahontas Stakes, is one of seven fillies entered in the Golden Rod Stakes, while Thiskyhasnolimit, winner of the Iroquois Stakes, is one of nine colts and geldings in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes.
Up at Churchill Downs, 3-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra is back on the track, training again for the Steve Asmussen stable. But down at Fair Grounds, the Asmussen barn has 3-year-old colt Friesan Fire dressed up and ready to roll - somewhere, sometime, and presumably in the not-too-distant future.
On Monday, Friesan Fire worked six furlongs in 1:12.60 seconds, as fast as many six-furlong races are run at Fair Grounds. It was Friesan Fire's sixth published work since he resumed breezing this fall in New Orleans, and his second straight drill at three-quarters of a mile.