STICKNEY, Ill. Greg Geier wintered at Tampa Bay Downs last year. Nothing against Tampa Bay, which has admirably served any number of horsemen, but Geier is a Fair Grounds guy from a time even farther back than his long spell as the main Fair Grounds assistant to the late trainer Gene Cilio. Back in New Orleans again this winter, Geier won six races with a 15-horse stable, and now is reaping the benefits of spending several months on the lauded Fair Grounds main track.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Kohana, who has won both his starts, will get a class check Saturday when he ships to Oaklawn Park to make his stakes debut in the $1 million Arkansas Derby.
Kohana, a son of Indian Charlie owned by West Point Stables, won his maiden by 1 1/2 lengths launching his career going seven furlongs on Feb. 1, then stretched out to a mile to capture an entry-level allowance by 1 3/4 lengths seven weeks later.
Kohana had his final tune-up for the Grade 2 Arkansas Derby when he breezed five furlongs in 1:02 at Palm Meadows on Saturday.
The Pennsylvania Governors Cup Handicap, the oldest and most prestigious stakes at Penn National Race Course, once again will be worth six figures as the track doubled the purse to $100,000.
The 36th running of the Governors Cup, scheduled for Friday night, Aug. 1, highlights a list of 13 stakes for 2008 released by Penn National on Friday.
The Governors Cup has been worth $50,000 since 2002, the same year the distance of the turf race was switched from 1 1/16 miles to five furlongs.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The race for the training title at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting may go down to the end of the meeting on April 20. None of the three leading contenders - Mike Mitchell, John Sadler, and Doug O'Neill - is ready to predict the result.
Through Friday, Mitchell led all trainers with 25 winners, two more than Sadler and O'Neill. Bobby Frankel was fourth with 21 wins.
Mitchell admits his two-win lead is tenuous, and that whether he wins the title depends on what races are used in the final weeks of the meeting.
CALGARY, Alberta Trainer Terry Jordan begins his annual invasion of Alberta in earnest on Sunday when Ronaldino squares off against six rivals in a $19,300 conditioned allowance that runs as the third race.
Jordans forays into this province from his Hastings base have been an ongoing success story, and Ronaldino, a son of fashionable British Columbia sire Katahaula County with excellent early foot, seeks to write another chapter with Quincy Welch signed up to ride.
STICKNEY, Ill. - The closest David Carroll ever came to winning the Kentucky Derby was in 1989, when Easy Goer finished 2 1/2 lengths behind Sunday Silence. Carroll's name didn't appear on the program; the young Irishman toiled behind the scenes as Easy Goer's exercise rider.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Rebound or re-route.
That's the theme for many of the high-profile 3-year-olds hoping to use Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct as a stepping-stone to next month's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gloomy weather and an earlier disqualification couldn't keep Robby Albarado down. But really, what can these days? Six days removed from the richest victory of his career aboard Curlin in the Dubai World Cup, Albarado was at it again Friday when he booted home the winner of the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes, highlight of the opening-day card at Keeneland.
Turfway Park's gross business was down about 10 percent in both all-sources and ontrack handle on live races at the winter-spring meet that began Jan. 1 and ended Thursday, according to figures released by the Florence, Ky., track.
Gross all-sources handle on 62 days of Turfway racing totaled nearly $150.7 million, while ontrack handle totaled just over $7.9 million. Those figures were down 9.6 and 10.4 percent, respectively, from 60 days in 2007. The daily average figures for this year's longer meet were down about 12 percent both ontrack and total.
William T. "Buddy" Bishop III, the longtime legal counsel for Keeneland Racecourse, The Jockey Club, and several large Kentucky farms, died on Thursday at his home in Lexington, Ky., Keeneland announced. He was 64.
The cause of death was not announced.
Bishop was one of the more well-known attorneys in Kentucky to specialize in equine practice. He represented Claiborne Farm, Godolphin Racing, Juddmonte Farms, Mill Ridge Farm, and Darley Stud.