ETOBICOKE, Ontario--Hooh Why ($3.80) held off a closing 6-1 shot Tasty Temptation to take the $168,600 La Lorgnette Stakes at Woodbine Sunday.
Hooh Why, who captured the Grade 1 Ashland in April and was scratched from Friday's Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico in favor of the La Lorgnette, banked $90,000 for the partnership of Mark Hoffman and Derby Daze Farm.
AUBURN, Wash. - Longtime West Coast trainer Craig Roberts died Saturday at age 78. He had been in poor health since suffering two strokes last winter, and was rehabilitating at a Seattle-area nursing facility in recent weeks when he fell ill with pneumonia.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Front-runner Kizzy's Chaos will face a daunting class hurdle if he runs July 11 in the Hollywood Gold Cup, and at the 1 1/4-mile distance of the Grade 1 race, he would only be getting warmed up.
Kizzy's Chaos led start to finish Sunday in the 1 5/8-mile, $100,000 Gallant Man Handicap on Sunday at Hollywood Park; the $14.40 upset establishes him as the top stayer in California.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Red Arrow scored a front-running $18.80 upset in the Grade 3 Los Angeles Handicap on Saturday at Hollywood Park, but the 6-year-old's low-rated win in the six-furlong Los Angeles will add no stability to the West Coast sprint division.
Red Arrow and jockey Joe Talamo took advantage of a paceless field, made the lead even after a slow start, and scored a front-running win in an ordinary 1:08.92. Stakes-caliber sprinters normally run .40 to .60 of a seconds faster on Cushion Track.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Hooh Why ($3.80) held off the closing 6-1 shot Tasty Temptation to take the $168,600 La Lorgnette Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday.
Hooh Why, who captured the Grade 1 Ashland in April and was scratched from Friday's Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico in favor of the La Lorgnette, in which she banked $90,000 for the partnership of Mark Hoffman and Derby Daze Farm.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Front-runner Kizzy's Chaos would face a daunting class hurdle July 11, but at the 1 1/4-mile distance of the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup, he would only be getting warmed up.
Kizzy's Chaos led start to finish Sunday in the 1 5/8-mile, $100,000 Gallant Man Handicap on Sunday at Hollywood Park; the $14.40 upset establishes him as the top stayer in California.
However, trainer Vladimir Cerin and owner Robert Alexander will consider loftier goals than another anonymous main-track marathon.
LINCOLN, Neb. - Sir Magic Man rallied back through the short stretch at Lincoln to post a $30.80 upset in the $15,000 Speed Stakes for older horses at the Lincoln State Fair on Saturday afternoon.
Ridden by Jose Ranilla, who posted three wins on the card, Sir Magic Man contested the early pace of the 4 1/2-furlong race, then re-rallied as 35-1 longshot Forgot the Time opened a 1 1/2-length lead into the stretch. Sir Magic Man rallied back to collar that one late and post the three-quarter-length win in 51.60 seconds over a fast track.
ALTOONA, Iowa - Trainer Kelly Von Hemel's stalwart trio of Crimson King Cat, Maya's Storm and Red Hot N Gold were expected to dominate Saturday's John Wayne Stakes, a six-furlong event for Iowa-bred colts and geldings. With his father Don Von Hemel in town for his grandson's high school graduation ceremony, the three accomplished runners were inseparable at the sixteenth pole and ended up finishing first, second, and fourth.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Red Arrow scored a front-running $18.80 upset in the Grade 3 Los Angeles Handicap on Saturday at Hollywood Park, but the 6-year-old's low-rated win in the six-furlong Los Angeles will add no stability to the West Coast sprint division.
Red Arrow and jockey Joe Talamo took advantage of a paceless field, made the lead even after a slow start, and scored a front-running win in an ordinary 1:08.92. Stakes-caliber sprinters normally run two- to three-fifths of a second faster on Cushion Track.
BALTIMORE - Parading missed almost a year of racing, sidelined between May 2008 and April 2009. At age 6, he has come back a better horse. A month after easily winning the Ben Ali Stakes over Polytrack at Keeneland, Parading captured the Grade 2, $150,000 Dixie Stakes on the Pimlico grass course Saturday.
