HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - It was thumbs up all around on Sunday for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.’s two top 3-year-old prospects White Abarrio and Make It Big. The former was in good order following his one-sided victory the previous afternoon in the Grade 3 Holy Bull, and the latter was confirmed for next Saturday’s Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs following a strong half-mile work earlier Sunday morning.
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The effects of a winter storm has prompted Laurel Park to cancel Saturday’s nine-race card.
The storm passed through the Mid-Atlantic region Thursday and Friday, leaving freezing temperatures and wind chills in its wake.
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Laurel and the rest of the Maryland Jockey Club OTB network remain open for simulcasting.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. - There will be a pick-six carryover of $98,633 entering Saturday’s card at Aqueduct after the wager was not hit Friday.
There was a carryover of $31,130 entering Friday’s card after that same carryover was taken out of Thursday’s pool triggered by the cancellation of Thursday’s last race. There was $118,425 in new money wagered into the pick six on Friday, approximately $72,000 less than was wagered into the pool on Thursday.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sea Foam, a New York-bred stakes winner who has excelled in races run around two turns, will be pointed to the $100,000 John B. Campbell Stakes at Laurel Park on Feb. 19, trainer Michelle Giangiulio said Friday.
The Campbell is run at 1 1/16 miles. Sea Foam’s last four wins have come in two-turn races at 1 1/8 miles.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Topped by the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes, there will be 59 stakes worth $16.95 million offered at the 2022 Belmont Park spring-summer meet, a schedule that virtually mirrors the 2021 schedule.
The 44-day Belmont meet runs from April 28 through July 10.
Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, who was arrested on Jan. 28 on charges of domestic abuse and battery in Louisiana, received a continuance of a hearing before Santa Anita stewards on Thursday for a complaint issued by California Horse Racing Board investigators regarding alcohol use at an RV park on Del Mar property last November.
Roger Licht, an attorney representing Desormeaux, requested the continuance. A new hearing date has not been set.
Last fall, Friar’s Road was pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita, but failed to draw into the field.
The same race is a goal this fall, at Keeneland in November, which looks like a very suitable race considering Friar’s Road’s 2022 debut win in the Grade 2 San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 30.
Friar’s Road won the 1 1/4-mile San Marcos Stakes by 4 1/4 lengths as the 11-10 favorite, stalking the pace before drawing clear for his first stakes win.
“He ran to his training,” trainer Michael McCarthy said Friday.
Soothsay, the winner of two graded stakes for 3-year-old fillies in 2021, is in advanced training for a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita on March 5.
Soothsay has not raced since winning the Grade 3 Indiana Oaks at 1 1/16 miles at Indiana Grand last July. An autumn campaign was canceled after Soothsay was diagnosed with a splint bone injury while under consideration for the Grade 1 Cotillon Stakes at Parx Racing in September.
Thursday at Santa Anita, Soothsay worked five furlongs in 1:00.20, the fastest of 26 works at the distance.
Oviatt Class, third in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 1, has been sidelined with an injury that will keep him out of the major races for 3-year-olds in coming months.
“He hurt his hock coming out of the Sham,” trainer Keith Desormeaux said Thursday. “He’ll be out for four months and that takes us out of the Triple Crown. We’ll have a nice horse for the fall.”
Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Aloha West’s winter break in Kentucky has ended, and the 5-year-old horse currently is tack-walking with trainer Wayne Catalano at Fair Grounds.
“We just got a little weight on him, but we can get that off easy. He looks really good, and we’re happy to have him back in the barn,” said Catalano, who was headed to the Chicago area this weekend for the impending birth of a granddaughter.