Hired Hand is going to be tough to beat in race 9 at Emerald Downs Sunday, a $20,000 starter allowance for 3-year-olds and up that have run for a claiming price of $15,000 or less in 2007-08.
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There will be a familiar look to the stakes schedule when the 94-day 2008-2009 Tampa Bay Downs meet opens on Dec 13.
The stakes schedule at Tampa is virtually the same as a year ago. The one notable change will be a $25,000 increase in the purse for the Sam F. Davis Stakes, which this winter will be worth $225,000. The Sam F. Davis is a prep for Tampa's cornerstone event, the $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby, and will be the main event on the Festival Preview Day card on Feb. 14.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulfstream Park will have a new racing secretary in 2009, Doug Bredar, and along with it a new look to its stakes schedule when the meet begins on Jan. 3.
Among the most significant changes to the schedule, which offers 48 stakes, is a purse cut for the Grade 1 Florida Derby from $1 million to $750,000, along with a change in distance for two of the track's most prominent races, the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth and Gulfstream Park Handicap.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - At 61 years of age, jockey Alan Cuthbertson is riding as well as he ever has - if not better than ever. That's saying a lot about the talented journeyman.
Known at Hastings as "Ace," Cuthbertson was the leading rider here in 1972 and is widely regarded as one of the best jockeys to ever ride in British Columbia.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Utterly Cool and Grand Adventure, who are among the locally based candidates for the Grade 3, $300,000 Summer, a one-mile race for 2-year-olds that will be run here Saturday, both breezed five furlongs on the training track turf course here Friday morning. The Summer is a Win and You're In race for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.
ELMONT, N.Y. - The wet weather that prompted the New York Racing Association to cancel Friday's nine-race card at Belmont Park also led to the postponement of two graded stakes scheduled for Sunday that were stepping-stones to Breeders' Cup races next month at Santa Anita.
MIAMI - Annabill is unquestionably the leader of the local filly and mare handicap division on dirt. On Sunday, she'll try to put her name at the head of the turf division as well when she attempts to defend her title in the $55,000 Capital Request Stakes, which is scheduled to be run at a mile on the grass. The Capital Request Stakes lured a full field of 12, plus two also-eligibles, and includes such turf specialists as Dancing Band, Silversider, Lydia's Love, and Saint Knows.
STICKNEY, Ill. - Okay, there was no hat contest, and there were no celebrity sightings, even of the C-list variety. There was no ocean breeze, or talk of which racetrack dining institution would be patronized in the evening. No one ever said this was Del Mar or Saratoga, but opening day of the 2008 Hawthorne fall meet went off with pristine weather and a decent Friday afternoon crowd. And with trainer Tom Tomillo - a Hawthorne veteran if ever one existed - capturing the meet-opener with a low-level claimer named Charming Bay, everything felt just about right in the Hawthorne universe.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia Right Honorable looks like the one to beat in a 6 1/2-furlong first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds that will serve as the feature race at Hastings on Sunday. There is a $50,000 claiming option on the race and Right Honorable, who wasnt eligible to be claimed when he won a similar race on Sept. 13, has been entered for the price.