With Sin Toro's seven-length victory over Mischeviousfighter in the Saskatchewan Derby in Saturday's final race of the Marquis Downs meet, another Thoroughbred meet wrapped up in Saskatoon.
The track's racing manager, Rick Fior, said that the ontrack handle (the track's sole source of wagering) for the 29-day meet was approximately $850,000, for a daily average of $29,300, up 4.3 percent from 2006's $28,100 per day. No attendance figures are kept.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Barbara Minshall has been represented in two previous runnings of the Woodbine Mile by the multiple stakes winner Kiridashi, who finished seventh in the 1997 inaugural running and fifth the following season.
On Sunday, Minshall will be contesting her first Woodbine Mile of this decade with Estevan, a horse she claimed recently for $62,500.
ELMONT, N.Y. - In some instances, a case of bucked shins can spell the end of a horse's juvenile season. Not so in the case of Tale of Ekati.
Tale of Ekati, a good-looking debut winner and the runner-up to Ready's Image in the Grade 2 Sanford in a 19-day period, appears to have gotten over his bucked shins in time to return to the races in Saturday's Grade 2 Futurity at Belmont Park. The Futurity is one of four graded stakes on a blockbuster Saturday card at Belmont.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The element of surprise is gone for Mission Approved Friday night in the $60,000 Princeton Stakes for 3-year-olds on the turf at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
Last time out, Mission Approved pulled off a stunner at Saratoga, winning the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes on closing weekend at 34-1.
"I was pleased by his race at Saratoga and I was pleasantly surprised," said trainer Gary Contessa said. "I never doubted that the horse had a lot of quality."
The Woodlands in Kansas City, Kan., will run 19 stakes during its 25-date meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses in a familiar schedule that promises to get richer over the next few years, as the track won a referendum for slots this past June.
The target date for installation of the machines is Feb. 1, 2008, according to Jayme LaRocca, general manager of the Woodlands.
"It's going to be a dramatic boost for both the horse industry and the greyhound industry," he said.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Jim DiVito's Arlington Park meet has gone so well, the success spilled over all the way to Iowa.
On Saturday, the same day Solo Survivor scored a major upset here in the Arlington Matron, the DiVito-trained West Coast Coach captured the Prairie Meadows Freshman Stakes in Des Moines.
Two Saturdays earlier, Piratesonthelake, still another DiVito trainee, dead-heated for first in the Arlington Sprint Handicap, and this two-week period, DiVito conceded, has been the best spell of his long training career.
All I Can Get remained atop the Michigan-bred 3-year-old male division with a gutsy win in Tuesday's $50,000 Mackinac Handicap. The 1-5 favorite hooked up with second choice My First Buck, and the two dueled down the stretch with All I Can Get gaining a neck advantage late. It was more than 14 lengths back to Scarlet Fact in third.
Mr. Mink, a former Indiana horse of the year, scored a definitive victory in the $13,850 Tic N Tin Handicap, last Saturday's feature at Fairmount. Making his first start in nearly three months, Mr. Mink set a torrid pace of 21.80 and 44.60 seconds, but had plenty left to hold Just Viareggio safe by a length. The final time for six furlongs over a sloppy track was 1:10.40, and the win earned Mr. Mink an 87 Beyer Speed Figure.
The live racing season in Nebraska will have one final hurrah this weekend as Horsemen's Atokad Downs closes out the year with a three-day festival of races geared toward horses that have run in the state this year. The meet will offer a bottom purse of $10,000.
Horsemen's Atokad Downs will offer six-race cards on Friday and Saturday and close out the weekend with seven races on Sunday. The races range from $2,500 claimers up to open allowance company.