Lone Star Park has carded five stakes races for Saturday. The stakes, which are all restricted, make up the annual Stars of Texas Day.
The 11-race program starts at 2:05 p.m. Central.
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Mocito Rojo, a multiple Grade 3 winner coming off back-to-back allowance wins at Louisiana Downs, is scheduled to return to stakes competition July 17 in the $75,000 Good Lord at Ellis Park, said trainer Shane Wilson. The Good Lord is a 6 1/2-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up.
“Mocito had a really sharp work last week,” Wilson said. “We’ve never been to Ellis. That will be a new experience for us.”
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The 20-year-old trainer Rylee Grudzien won a stakes for the first time in her career on Saturday with Peacock Kitten, who won the John Henry Stakes at Evangeline Downs under comebacking jockey Devin Magnon.
“It was wonderful,” Grudzien said. “My dad owns a piece of the horse and that was great. Devin rode him. Devin’s my boyfriend, so that was cool. It was kind of a family deal – not a better group of people to do it with.”
Charmaine’s Mia, Going Global and Leggs Galore – fillies and mares who have combined to win a remarkable 10 stakes for trainer Phil D’Amato this year – worked at Santa Anita on Monday for upcoming stakes at the Del Mar summer meeting.
They are bound for races where they figure to be favored, or among the leading candidates.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The Aidan O’Brien-trained pair of Bolshoi Ballet, seventh as the favorite in the Group 1 Epsom Derby, and Santa Barbara, runner-up in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in Ireland, arrived in New York Sunday night for starts in Saturday’s Belmont Derby and Belmont Oaks, respectively.
O’Brien has sent runners for five of the six runnings of the Belmont Derby, winning it in 2016 with Deauville. He won the 2018 Belmont Oaks with Athena and finished second in 2019 with Just Wonderful.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Mischevious Alex, the Grade 1 Carter winner who finished third in Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and Drain the Clock, the Grade 1 Woody Stephens winner, both returned to the work tab Monday, each breezing three furlongs over Belmont Park’s training track.
Mischevious Alex went in 37.81 seconds, while Drain the Clock went in 37.49 seconds.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Mind Control and Firenze Fire came out of their seven-furlong slugfest in Sunday’s Grade 2, $250,000 John Nerud Stakes at Belmont Park in good order and both will be pointed to stakes at Saratoga.
Mind Control, under John Velazquez, raced outside of Firenze Fire every step of the way before prevailing by a head in the Nerud. He will be pointed to the Grade 1, $600,000 Forego at seven furlongs on Aug. 28. Mind Control at age 2 won the Grade 1 Hopeful and at 3 the H. Allen Jerkens, both Grade 1 stakes at seven furlongs at Saratoga.
Without racing, Royal Ship’s status has risen in the California older horse division since a second-place finish in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita on May 31.
In the Gold Cup, Royal Ship finished second by a head to Country Grammer, who has since been transferred from trainer Bob Baffert's California barn to Todd Pletcher in New York as part of the fallout of a drug-positive found in the post-race test of the Baffert-trained Medina Spirit in the Kentucky Derby on May 1.
Last August, California trainer Mark Glatt won the first Grade 1 race of his career with the 3-year-old Collusion Illusion in the Bing Crosby Stakes for sprinters at Del Mar.
Collusion Illusion is on schedule for the same race this year at Del Mar on July 31, as is his 3-year-old stablemate Dr. Schivel, who won the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity last September.