William's Kitten and The Rumor's True will head in different directions after winning the premier 2-year-old races of the Louisiana Downs meet last Saturday. William's Kitten is looking at options in Canada, Kentucky, and Texas, while The Rumor's True is being pointed for a new $250,000 stakes for Louisiana-breds at Delta Downs.
FORT ERIE, Ontario - Apprentice Jockey Brian Cheyne took only four mounts to the gate before notching his first career win.
The rail-skimming hand ride on Sept. 14 was impressive enough for the Fort Erie stewards to allow Cheyne to use a whip in future races, and the announcement from track announcer Peter Kyte came shortly after the young rider left the winner's circle for the first time.
The 20-year-old Cheyne - whose father, John, was a jockey - openly admits that in his youth he was scared of horses.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Tell It As It Is, a stakes winner here on both turf and Polytrack, has yet to find the range this year but could remedy that oversight here in Sunday's $100,000 Flaming Page.
The Flaming Page, a $100,000 overnight stakes for fillies and mares, will go over 1 1/2 miles on the turf and has attracted a field of 10.
MIAMI - While his future opponents prep for the In Reality Stakes on Oct. 17 in races like Saturday's Foolish Pleasure, local 2-year-old kingpin Jackson Bend has been taking it relatively easy since his popular victory in the seven-furlong Affirmed division of the Florida Stallion series on Aug. 29.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird arrived at Santa Anita at 2 a.m. on Friday, after a 12-hour van ride from Albuquerque, N.M. Not long after, he began his preparation for a fall campaign.
By 8 a.m., trainer Chip Woolley had Mine That Bird on the track for a one-mile jog "to let him get the kinks out of the trip," Woolley said. "He likes to go to the racetrack."
ELMONT, N.Y. - Upon further review, the wrong result stands. And so will the right one.
Officials from the New York Racing Association said Friday that it will pay out both the official and the actual superfecta result from Thursday's ninth-race snafu at Belmont Park when the incorrect fourth-place finisher was posted. All totaled, NYRA could be on the hook for $82,500, which is the net superfecta pool after takeout. The gross superfecta pool was $111,978.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Robert S. Evans, the owner of Marsh Side, has appealed the disqualification of his horse from first place in last Sunday's at Woodbine.
Marsh Side, trained by Neil Drysdale, hit the wire a half-length in front under jockey Javier Castellano but the stewards ruled that he had interfered with third-place finisher Quijano and subsequently fourth-place finisher Champs Elysees when he came in with a furlong to run.
Garrett Gomez, the rider of Champs Elysees, who was beaten 1 1/4 lengths, lodged claims of foul against both Quijano and Marsh Side.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Placing judges at Belmont Park posted an incorrect number on the tote board for the fourth-place finisher in Thursday's ninth race, and the stewards made the outcome official, resulting in an incorrect payoff for the superfecta wager.
As part of a season in which he won seven races and finished third behind Commentator in the $500,000 Massachusetts Handicap, Cuba went off as the 6-5 favorite when he coasted to a four-length win in last fall's Maryland Million Classic.
But those past accomplishments don't carry as much weight because Cuba has done little recently, and the 8-year-old could be close to double-digit odds when he defends his title Saturday against a solid lineup of 10 that includes two winners from last year's Maryland Million card.
