LEXINGTON, Ky. – Everything has gone to plan for Letruska since she won the Personal Ensign on Aug. 28. Now it’s just a matter of getting the 5-year-old mare through her final prep for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff when she runs Sunday as a heavy favorite in the Grade 1 Spinster at Keeneland.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Fair warning to everyone – star jockey Joel Rosario is scheduled to ride five days of the Keeneland fall meet, starting with the Friday opener. Rosario has been sensational this year when leaving his New York base to ride in Kentucky, starting with the first two days of the Keeneland spring meet (April 2-3), when he won a remarkable six stakes.
LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 6, 2021) – Keeneland will debut a number of new initiatives for the 2021 Fall Meet, which opens Friday, aimed at broadening coverage and growing viewership among Spanish-speaking fans of Thoroughbred racing. Enhancements include a livestream of Fall Stars Weekend race cards in Spanish, Spanish translation of the Keeneland Race Day App as well as handicapping content and analysis in Spanish on Keeneland.com.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Even with the young folk, it’s a local tradition far more palatable than, say, burning couches. Everybody gets all dressed up in their autumn finest to see and be seen at Keeneland, where a 17-day fall meet will get away to a flying start Friday.
A huge weekend that most of Lexington has had circled on their calendars for months begins Friday with a 10-race card highlighted by the Grade 1 Alcibiades and Grade 2 Phoenix, the first of 10 FallStars Weekend stakes and the first of 10 Win and You’re In races to be run toward the Nov. 5-6 Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Mark Casse is among the leading advocates for the Tapeta surface unveiled here last week. So it should have come as no surprise the Hall of Fame trainer wasted little time taking advantage of the new track, sending out All Quality to a victory in Sunday’s main event.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Part of the fallout from the recent suspensions of five locally based trainers due to clenbuterol violations centers on the fate of the graded stakes-placed Bajan Girl, who is being pointed to either the Grade 1 Spinster at Keeneland or Grade 1 Beldame at Belmont Park.
LOUSIVILLE, Ky. – Tyler Gaffalione earned his fifth straight meet riding title at Churchill Downs when booting home Liberty Isle in the 117th and last race of the 12-day, dirt-only meet that ended Sunday at Louisville track. Gaffalione, the leading jockey at every meet since 2020 spring, needed four Sunday winners to edge Brian Hernandez Jr. by a 16-15 count.
Ken McPeek was the leading trainer with 10 wins, marking the third time McPeek has won or shared a Churchill title. The partnership of WinStar Farm and Siena Farm led the owners’ standings with three wins.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Going to Vegas and Luck gave trainer Richard Baltas a career-first 1-2 finish in a Grade 1 race in Saturday’s $302,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.
As of Sunday, only Going to Vegas is definite for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 6, having earned a fees-paid berth with the Rodeo Drive win.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Robert Tiller said four-time Canadian champion male sprinter Pink Lloyd exited his Sept. 25 victory in the Grade 3 Bold Venture in spry fashion and is planning on running the popular gelding twice more at the Woodbine meet.
Nine-year-old Pink Lloyd finished a troubled second to Souper Stonehenge in each of his first two starts this year in a pair of Grade 3 stakes, the Jacques Cartier and Vigil. Normally a mid-pack closer, he inherited the lead in the paceless Bold Venture and won by a measured three-quarters of a length over a pesky Lucky Curlin.