HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Smooth Air gave Bennie Stutts Jr. the biggest win of his 40-year career as a trainer, outfinishing a game Silver Edition by a length to score an upset in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
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GROVE CITY, Ohio - Beulah Park will have a renovated racing surface and a new simulcast policy in place when it begins its 73-day winter/spring meet Monday.
The cushion of the racing surface was removed and a new cushion installed in the two weeks since the fall meeting concluded. The new track is sure to be welcomed by horsemen, who lost three racing days at the fall meet due to the freezing and thawing of the old track.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Saturday's Count Fleet Stakes was supposed to be the New York-bred Giant Moon's first test against open company. But it was a familiar foe that pushed him to the limit. In the end, though, Giant Moon proved superior to fellow statebred Spanky Fischbein and remained undefeated.
Showing that he could be effective from a stalking position, Giant Moon wore down a stubborn Spanky Fischbein inside the sixteenth pole to take Saturday's $81,525 Count Fleet Stakes for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct by a neck. It was Giant Moon's fourth win from as many starts.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Recent wet weather, and continuing concern over Santa Anita's Cushion Track surface, has caused one prominent horse to be pulled from next Saturday's San Rafael Stakes, and another might follow.
Maimonides, who ran third in the Hopeful Stakes, was expected to make his first start since then in the Grade 2, $150,000 San Rafael, the first two-turn stakes race of the meet for 3-year-olds seeking to get to the Kentucky Derby. But Bob Baffert, who trains Maimonides, said he and owner Ahmed Zayat decided to pass the race.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - No one has been able to hit Aqueduct's pick six in 2008, resulting in a two-card carryover of $161,990 entering Friday's card.
The wager went unhit on Tuesday, resulting in a carryover of $46,068 entering Thursday's card. Though favorites won the first two legs of the pick six, victories by Wild Debutante ($24.40), In Command ($21.60), and Be Bullish ($10.40) secured a carryover before favored Redan ($5.10) won the nightcap.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The first wave of a series of storms expected to pummel Southern California this weekend hit Santa Anita with light showers about an hour before the first race Friday as track officials held their breath that Cushion Track, which covers the main track, would weather the storms.
The track was sealed following racing on Thursday, and even though the weather was dry Friday morning, the main track was closed for training, with all horses restricted to the infield training track.
Turfway Park closed its holiday meet Monday with average daily all-sources wagering down 22.6 percent from 2006 after the Florence, Ky., track lost two of its major account-deposit wagering networks at a 27-day meet that began Nov. 25.
All-sources handle totaled more than $73.7 million for an average of $2,730,099 per card. In 2006, when only 25 days were run at the holiday meet, the average was $3,528,969 per card and total handle was $88.2omillion.
NEW ORLEANS - With the turn of the calendar in New Orleans, eyes turn toward Jan. 12, when six $100,00 stakes races, highlighted by the Grade 3 Lecomte, will be run at Fair Grounds.
The Lecomte, at one mile on dirt, looks to be the race in which the locals sort out who will go forward in the 3-year-old series, and Fair Grounds-based trainers are sending forward their best prospects.
As of Friday, the Lecomte had seven probable starters, with more expected when the field is finalized on Monday.
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Santa Anita is expected to be hit with a significant rainstorm on Friday, but those who brave the conditions, or at least find a warm place in a simulcast facility or near a computer, can try to get hot for six races and take down the pick six, which is seeded by a carryover of $88,566.01, the result of no one hitting the bet on Thursday.
There are eight races scheduled for Friday, with first post at 1 p.m. Pacific. The pick six begins with the third race, scheduled for shortly after 2 p.m.