Tue, 10/14/2008 - 00:00

Golden Doc A helps Fox regroup

LEXINGTON, Ky. - When one door closes, another one opens. That's the basic philosophy that Greg Fox has adopted with the temporary loss of his stable star, Tizdejavu, and the colt's possible replacement in that role.

Tizdejavu, a winner of three graded turf stakes this year, recently underwent surgery for a non-displaced condylar fracture in his right foreleg and will be out of action indefinitely. Meanwhile, Fox has assimilated another graded winner, Golden Doc A, into his small stable adjacent to the Thoroughbred Training Center off Paris Pike in Lexington.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Remarkable Remy gets right kind of ride

ELMONT, N.Y. - Patience proved virtuous for Remarkable Remy, who rallied six wide down the center of Belmont Park's Widener Turf Course Monday to win the $121,000 Pebbles Stakes by one length over Senior Rita Lady. It was a nose back to Meriwether Jessica in third.

The victory enabled Remarkable Remy to bounce back from a disappointing third-place finish in the Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes going six furlongs here on Sept. 18. In that race, trainer John Kimmel felt jockey Kent Desormeaux asked his horse to run too early.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

$367 winner at La. Downs

Cato paid $367.20 when he won his maiden Sunday in the first race at Louisiana Downs, setting what is believed to be a record win payoff for the Bossier City, La., track. He was sent to post at 182-1 in a $5,000 maiden claiming race, stalked the pace, and was up for a neck win under jockey Pedro Monterrey.

"To the best of our knowledge, this is an all-time record at Louisiana Downs," said Mark Midland, the track's vice president of racing operations since 2006.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Arroyo escapes injury in fall

Jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. was lucky to escape injury after being involved in an ugly-looking spill in Monday's fifth race at Belmont Park. Arroyo said he could return to race-riding Thursday.

"I got really lucky," Arroyo said late Monday afternoon from North Shore University Hospital, from where he was scheduled to be released Monday night.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

NYRA to honor Evening Attire

The New York Racing Association will honor the 10-year-old gelding Evening Attire with a day in his honor on Oct. 25 at Belmont. Highlighting the day will be a public appearance by Evening Attire, who won 15 of 69 starts and $2,977,130. His biggest victory came in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont in 2001.

Evening Attire was retired with a soft-tissue injury that was discovered on the morning of a scheduled start in the Point Given Stakes at Monmouth on Sept. 20. He will retire to Akindale Farm in Pawling, N.Y.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Goldikova chooses BC Mile

ARCADIA, Calif. - Goldikova, the winner of two consecutive Group 1 races in France this summer, will start in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Oct. 25, trainer Freddie Head said Monday.

A 3-year-old filly, Goldikova had been considered a candidate for the BC Filly and Mare Turf on Oct. 24, but Head said he prefers to keep her racing at a mile.

"I think the Mile will be her race," Head said in a telephone interview. "The Mile is her best chance."

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Baze misses two days with strained back

Leading rider Russell Baze strained his back while guiding Rummysecret War to victory in Saturday’s first race at Golden Gate Fields and had to take off the rest of his mounts.

Although listed as day-to-day, he wound up missing Sunday’s seven mounts as Frank Alvarado, second in the standings with 15 wins behind Baze’s 23, rode three winners: Galinda ($5.20) in the second, Bradford Falls ($3.80) in the third, and Win to Win ($6.20) in the seventh.

Baze returned to action Monday at Golden Gate, where he had six scheduled mounts.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Alwajeeha targets final start in the Matriarch

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Shadwell Stable is considering one more race for Alwajeeha, the 3-year-old filly who carried the familiar blue-and-white silks of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum to an 11-1 upset Saturday in the final Grade 1 race of the Keeneland fall meet, the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Sand Cove keeps on rolling

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Roger Attfield and jockey Richard Dos Ramos have been winning stakes races here together since the mid-1980s.

And the two staged a particularly lucrative revival here last weekend when Sand Cove captured Sunday's $125,800 Bunty Lawless after Palladio prevailed in Saturday's $154,200 Durham Cup.

Sand Cove, a 3-year-old colt owned by Ralph Johnson, recorded his third consecutive stakes score in the Bunty Lawless, a one-mile turf race for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds and up.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:00

Baze returns after back strain

Leading rider Russell Baze strained his back while guiding Rummysecret War to victory in Saturday's first race at Golden Gate Fields and had to take off the rest of his mounts.

Although listed as day-to-day, he wound up missing Sunday's seven mounts as Frank Alvarado, second in the standings with 15 wins behind Baze's 23, rode three winners: Galinda ($5.20) in the second, Bradford Falls ($3.80) in the third, and Win to Win ($6.20) in the seventh.

Baze returned to action Monday at Golden Gate, where he had six scheduled mounts.