VANCOUVER, British Columbia Wind Storm has been holding her own while running against multiple stakes winners Holy Nova and Lady Raj. She figures to be the favorite Saturday at Hastings in an allowance race restricted to nonwinners of a stakes in 2008. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint drew five fillies or mares.
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DEL MAR, Calif. - Evita Argentina ($17.20) gave the stallion Candy Ride his first stakes winner in Wednesdays $150,000 Sorrento Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar.
Evita Argentina ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:17.51, extending her unbeaten streak to two races. Trained by John Sadler for Halo Farms and Three Sisters Thoroughbreds, Evita Argentina won her debut in a maiden race at five furlongs at Hollywood Park on June 25.
Change Up, winner of the Grade 3 Pocahontas Stakes in 2006, has been retired with a minor injury apparently sustained in a workout Friday at Churchill Downs, according to Richard Klein, whose family owns the 4-year-old filly.
Change Up, by Distorted Humor, won five races and $375,420 and was trained by Steve Flint, then Steve Margolis, during her 16-race career.
Chances Are I Wil, fresh from a win in the Grade 1 Remington Park Championship, heads the Grade 2, $73,350 Bank of America Central Challenge Championship on Saturday night at Prairie Meadows.
The Friday and Saturday night programs at the Iowa track feature regional stakes races in the Bank of America Challenge program. The winners of the regional stakes qualify for their respective stakes during the Challenge Championships at Evangeline Downs on Nov. 8.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Precious Kitten has been listed as the 9-5 morning-line favorite in a field of nine entered in the $750,000 Beverly D., the Grade 1 race that usually bears itself out as a critical stop for the filly-mare turf contingent.
The Beverly D. and the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes will combine again Saturday with the Arlington Million to form the International Festival of Racing at Arlington Park.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Beverly D. is a Chicago race, but it's not like Chicago horses are ever involved. The Grade 1 race always has been dominated by elite fillies and mares, mostly from California and New York, with local horsemen doing little other than spectating.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sugar Bay, a sharp winner over seven furlongs last time out, will be looking to spring an upset when she swings back in the $150,000 Duchess at the same distance here Saturday.
"I kind of think this is her trip, right now," said Mac Benson, who trains Sugar Bay for owner and breeder George Strawbridge Jr.
"She has a bit of speed. We were trying to use it going long, but she just didn't seem to be cooperating the way we wanted her to."
BOSSIER CITY, La. - With the arrival of August and the dog days of summer, thoughts around Louisiana Downs move forward toward the meeting's highlight, the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby in late September.
The first step to the Super Derby is the Prelude Stakes on Aug. 15. There will be $100,000 in purse money in the Prelude, and the winner will receive an all-fees-paid berth in the Super Derby.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Poor Azul Leon. Unbeaten in two starts and bound for Sunday's $150,000 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar, he is already one of the best 2-year-olds in California this summer.
And, he only needs to win six more consecutive races this year to keep pace with the best horse owned by his owner and breeder, Joseph LaCombe.
When a stable is best known for campaigning Favorite Trick, the 1997 Horse of the Year as a 2-year-old, standards are pretty high. Such success also provides a dose of realism.