HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Wednesday’s sixth race is a $62,000 allowance dash carded at five furlongs on the turf that lured a field of eight older fillies and mares led by speedsters Richies Great Girl, Running Memories, and Tracy Ann’s Legacy.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The first set of invitations were released on Sunday for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup here on Jan. 29, and it would have certainly been a treat for racing fans worldwide if the top three names on that list – defending champion and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Knicks Go, Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Life Is Good, and the sensational Flightline – were destined to meet. Unfortunately, that dream matchup, is not in the cards.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After Lobsta achieved his second stakes victory in four weeks in Saturday’s Say Florida Sandy Stakes, trainer Gary Sciacca was in no hurry Sunday morning to select a next spot for the 4-year-old New York-bred.
“I was just happy to see him run two good races back to back,” Sciacca said.
Lobsta actually crossed the wire second, a neck behind My Boy Tate in the seven-furlong Say Florida Sandy. My Boy Tate was disqualified and placed fourth for interfering with Chestertown, who finished fourth.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Jose Ortiz will miss this upcoming week at Aqueduct as he will be in Saudi Arabia to ride several horses at King Abdulaziz Racetrack on Friday and Saturday.
Ortiz said there are several important races for locally based horses who may or may not be pointing to the rich Saudi World Cup program at the end of February.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The two months he missed last spring due to a broken clavicle may have reinvigorated jockey Dylan Davis.
“I was out for two months and I was watching all my horses win and it made me mad,” Davis said Sunday at Aqueduct. “When I came back, I wanted to come back stronger and do better than what I was doing before. Sometimes you get in a little rut and you’re content with where you are, and it kind of reset me.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Emmanuel figured as a short-priced favorite in a mile and 40-yard allowance Friday at Tampa Bay Downs, but instead was kept home at Palm Beach Downs by trainer Todd Pletcher after spiking a temperature.
“He’s fine,” said Pletcher. “It was kind of frustrating because we were hoping to get him some two-turn experience. We’ll regroup and figure out where we go from this.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jack Christopher is back with trainer Chad Brown in Florida after getting about 60 days off to recover from a minor shin ailment that forced the unbeaten colt to miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
Brown said Sunday after Jack Christopher was bedded down at Payson Park that he has no set agenda for a return to racing, although obviously it is hoped the colt will be able to make the May 7 Kentucky Derby if he returns to peak condition.
“No update until I start training on him,” said Brown.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The two-time graded stakes winner Harvest Moon has been retired after a series of disappointing performances, trainer Simon Callaghan said on Sunday.
Harvest Moon left Callaghan’s stable in December for Kentucky. A 5-year-old mare by Uncle Mo, Harvest Moon won 4 of 9 starts and earned $384,720 in a two-year career.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Tripoli, the winner of the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar in August, is in the midst of a 90-day rest after undergoing surgery to have a bone chip removed from a knee.
Trainer John Sadler said on Sunday that the injury was detected after Tripoli finished seventh of eight in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 6.
“He’ll be back for the summer,” Sadler said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Margot’s Boy, the 5-year-old gelding, is stuck in a 17-race losing streak since May 2020, a time when Santa Anita had just resumed racing after a forced hiatus at the start of the pandemic.
The losing streak includes a second by a head in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby in September of that year, a head loss in an allowance race at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Del Mar last August, and a neck loss in an allowance race at a mile on dirt at Los Alamitos on Dec. 4.
