Fans at next year's Preakness Stakes will not be allowed to bring alcohol bought outside the track into the grandstand and clubhouse areas of Pimlico, ending a longstanding tradition.
The change was confirmed Tuesday by the Maryland Jockey Club. Spectators will still be allowed to bring beer in cans into the infield on Preakness Day.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Marty Wolfson doesn't do it often, but it usually pays to take note when the trainer does ship a horse from his south Florida headquarters to New York for a stakes race.
Since 2001, Wolfson has shipped in five horses to New York and won two stakes, with a second and a third. On Wednesday, Wolfson put Golden Strategy on a plane bound for New York and Saturday's Grade 2, $150,00 Red Smith Handicap at Aqueduct. In 2001, Wolfson won the 1 3/8-mile Red Smith with Mr. Pleasentfar. In 2006, Wolfson won the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga with Pomeroy.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The sensational performance by Istan in the Ack Ack Handicap last Saturday at Churchill Downs has left his connections torn as to whether to stretch him out in the Clark Handicap or return him to New York for the Cigar Mile.
ALBANY, Calif. - Brand new surface; same old result.
The Tapeta era got under way at Golden Gate Fields on Wednesday with leading trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and leading rider Russell Baze combining to win the first race of the meet, a one-mile $40,000 starter allowance, with Devil Cielo. He rallied and caught pacesetting I'monmywayhome, winning by three-quarters of a length in 1:36.28.
Hollendorfer said his first impression of the surface was positive.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The horse quality in the south side of Barn 62 at Hollywood Park took a major jump in class in the last week with the arrivals of Eastern trainers Christophe Clement and Todd Pletcher.
Clement has sent eight horses to California, while Pletcher has more than 20, with more expected in coming weeks.
Judging from the results the respective trainers had in California last year, expectations are high for both barns. Clement won with 6 of 12 starters at the 2006 Hollywood Park fall meeting and into the early days of the Santa Anita winter meeting.
STICKNEY, Ill. - Darkness already is coming early in Chicago (get out your flashlights at about 4:30 p.m.), and so is the Friday feature.
The best race of 10 carded for Friday at Hawthorne is race 4, a third-level sprint allowance also open to $40,000 claimers that drew a competitive field of eight, only one of whom races under the allowance conditions. That is Front Court, who should be favored to do something he hasn't done in seven months - actually win a race.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It turns out that Monashee, who shipped in from Vancouver to attempt to solidify her case for a Sovereign Award, will not be the only serious invader in Saturday's Maple Leaf Stakes.
Cryptoquip, I'm In Love, and Dancing Band all will be checking in from south of the border for the $175,000 Maple Leaf, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares that has attracted a field of 12.
Rocky Gulch will not be defending his title in the $180,000 Classic on New Mexico Cup Day on Sunday at Zia Park, but he will still be active on the richest card of the meet. Rocky Gulch has been entered in the $170,000 Sprint Championship, a six-furlong race that looks like a logical spot for the millionaire, who has made just one start since April.
Trainer Ralph Martinez saddled two winners on Tuesday's card, giving him 12 winners from 22 starters at the month-old Beulah meet. Moe B Dick ($3.80) won the second race, and CC Cat ($6.60) took the ninth. Both horses were ridden by Otto Thorwarth.
All of Martinez's winners here have been owned by Louis D. O'Brien LLC. Martinez sports a 12-6-1 record from 22 starts at the meet, making horses trained by him a must-use in all exotics.
Robert W. Roe is second in the trainer standings, with 6 winners in 17 starts.