INGLEWOOD, Calif.-There are carryovers in the pick six and super high five at Hollywood Park on Thursday.
The pick six carryover is $67,117 from Wednesday, while the super high five has a $36,951 carryover.
The $2 pick six covers the third through eighth races on an eight-race program that begins at 12:30 p.m. Pacific. There are two scratches in the third race. Cause and Fantasy Free will not start in a $25,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds over 1 1/16 miles.
Trainer Larry Jones on Wednesday said he has a pair of 2-year-olds he would like to send to Delta Downs for next month's Grade 3, $750,000 Delta Jackpot and Grade 3, $500,000 Delta Princess. Pre-entries for the races, which will be run Dec. 5, will be taken on Friday.
City Style, a Retama Park-based stakes winner who ran a big fourth in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf last month at Santa Anita, is scheduled to ship to Dubai, said John Adger, the longtime racing manager for Stonerside who is doing some consultant work for Darley Stable. The colt is scheduled to travel abroad with fellow Darley-owned 2-year-olds Vineyard Haven, a multiple Grade 1 winner, and Midshipman, who took the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. With the temperature taking a nosedive in the New York area, trainer Billy Turner envisions Dry Martini becoming a winter warrior at Aqueduct.
Dry Martini earned his first win in four starts for Turner on Saturday, pulling away to a decisive win in the Grade 3 Stuyvesant Handicap at the foggy and muddy Big A.
The victory did not surprise Turner after the 5-year-old gelding rallied for fifth in his previous race, the Knickerbocker Handicap on the turf at Belmont Park.
The mere fact that Patrick Valenzuela and Francisco Torres both were riding at Fair Grounds seemed almost newsworthy. Who knew that after one racing week the pair would be one-two in the jockey standings?
Valenzuela won stakes races last Friday and Saturday for trainer Bill Mott, and his three wins were more than any other rider heading into the Fair Grounds' card Sunday. That's when Torres stepped up, winning four of the afternoon's 10 races to take a 5-4 lead over Valenzuela after three days of racing in New Orleans.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Cost of Freedom, the Grade 1-winning sprinter, was not permitted to be entered in Saturday's $100,000 Vernon Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park after failing a physical examination on Wednesday regarding soundness.
Cost of Freedom worked five furlongs in 1:00 at Hollywood Park on Wednesday, but did not jog to the satisfaction of state veterinarian Tom Connor after the workout. As a result, Cost of Freedom remained on the state veterinarian's list and is banned from racing for at least 10 days.
M J's Enchanteur withstood early pressure from So So and survived a claim of foul to capture Tuesday night's $75,000 Sophomore Sprint Championship at Mountaineer Racetrack.
Sent to the front by jockey Josue Arce in a field reduced to four by three scratches, M J's Enchanteur ($3) dueled with So So through a half-mile in 45.27 seconds, edged clear entering the stretch, and finished 6 1/4 lengths in front of runner-up Perfectly Played.
Trained by Scott Lake, M J's Enchanteur completed the six furlongs on a track rated good in 1:11.67.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Dale Romans has won six Grade 1 races in his 22-year training career, and in virtually no time flat, he can run down the names of them all.
The 2004 Whitney Handicap with Roses in May was his first, Romans can quickly recall, "and the Shadwell with Thorn Song was my last."
Herman Jefferson Stakes winner Cronus looks for his second stakes win at Zia Park in the $60,000 King Rick Rack Stakes at 870 yards on Sunday afternoon.
Cronus made a five-wide move in the 870-yard Jefferson to win as the 5-2 favorite.
First to Ramble makes his first start at Zia Park this year after finishing third in the Grade 1 Red Cell Distance Challenge at Evangeline Downs in his latest race.
