LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The first of five pools in the 2022 Kentucky Derby Future Wager opens Thursday at noon Eastern, along with the Derby Sires Future Wager. Both pools close at 6 p.m. Sunday following four days of betting.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Steve Asmussen has a head start on extending his own record to most meet titles at Churchill, taking a four-win edge (13-9) over Brad Cox into the final week of the meet. This would be the 25th meet title for Asmussen, the all-time winningest trainer at Churchill and in North America overall.
It might look a little different – and it’ll definitely sound a lot different – at Tampa Bay Downs when the Oldsmar, Fla., track kicks off its 2021-22 meet Wednesday.
A refurbishing of an aging facility was undertaken in recent months, while Jason Beem is the new announcer at Tampa, which has made steady gains in popularity in recent years among winter horseplayers.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After riding the last five days of the Churchill meet, including Midnight Bourbon in the Clark, star jockey Joel Rosario will ride four days at Aqueduct, Dec. 2-5, according to agent Ron Anderson.
Rosario then will be idle for more than a week, traveling to his native country, the Dominican Republic, to visit with family. The trip coincides with him serving a three-day suspension (Dec. 9-11) stemming from a riding infraction during Preakness week at Pimlico in May. His next confirmed date of action is Dec. 18 at Gulfstream Park, where five stakes will be run.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – King Fury could have stuck with fellow 3-year-olds by running Saturday in the $150,000 Discovery at Aqueduct, but no. Trainer Ken McPeek is shooting for bigger game Friday in the $750,000 Clark at his home track, Churchill Downs.
“He loves this racetrack,” said McPeek, alluding to the three wins for King Fury from four career starts at Churchill, the latest a 13-length romp in the Bourbon Trail on Sept. 25. “We’d thought about cross-entering him in the Discovery, but the Clark is a go.”
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Mark Casse said the promising 2-year-old Grafton Street is back in training after a freshening following his bang-up fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar.
After shipping in from Saratoga, Grafton Street rallied for second behind favored Albahr in the Grade 1 Summer on the grass here Sept. 19.
The accomplished mare Cordiality, a multiple stakes winner against California-breds, returns to action at age 8 following a 56-week layoff on Thursday in Del Mar's fourth race, a 1 1/16-mile grass race for fillies and mares who have second-level allowance conditions, or, like Cordiality, can be claimed for $100,000.
Tim Yakteen, who trains Cordiality for owner Donnie Crevier, said Cordiality was bred earlier this year, “but she didn’t take.”
Supporting the Grade 1 races on the weekend at Del Mar are two grass stakes on Saturday and one on Sunday, all of which, like the Hollywood Derby and Matriarch, have strong representation among the shippers.
The Grade 2, $250,000 Seabiscuit Handicap for older horses at 1 1/16 miles on Saturday includes both Flop Shot and Sacred Life for Chad Brown, with the brothers Ortiz – Irad on Flop Shot, Jose on Sacred Life – set to ride. Sacred Life won the Grade 3 Knickerbocker at Belmont last time out.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The fall Del Mar meet started with a flourish by playing host to the Breeders’ Cup and it will finish with a flourish, with seven graded turf stakes over the final four days, including Grade 1, $400,000 races on Saturday and Sunday that have lured top-quality horses and riders from the East Coast.
The Grade 1 Hollywood Derby for 3-year-olds on Saturday and Grade 1 Matriarch for fillies and mares on Sunday both were won last year by trainer Chad Brown, with Domestic Spending and Viadera, respectively, and he will try to win both again.
DEL MAR, Calif. – There has to be a story behind the name Worse Read Sanchez, a 2-year-old who debuts in race 3 on Sunday at Del Mar for trainer Doug O’Neill and owner-breeder Paul Reddam, right?
Yep, there is.
According to O’Neill and one of his owners, Dave Kenney, the name sprouted from a caddy’s misread of a Reddam putt at Sherwood Country Club near Thousand Oaks, Calif.