SARATOGA SPRINGS, N Y - It was business as usual at Saratoga on Monday morning for Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, who galloped a mile over the main track just 13 hours after posting a game victory over C P West in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes.
Street Sense regularly trains the day after he runs. He followed the same routine the morning after winning the Derby.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - After watching Americanus forge clear of the field at midstretch of Monday's $150,000 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga and with time running out for his 2-1 favorite, Most Distinguished, trainer Nick Zito thought to himself, "Not another second."
But after finishing second in two graded stakes earlier in the weekend and 11 times overall this season, Zito's fears were allayed when Most Distinguished dug in and ran down Americanus to post a one-length victory in the Grade 2 Amsterdam.
Lone Star Park experienced a 13.5 percent drop in average daily handle on its races during its 67-date meet that closed Sunday, with the decline at least partly attributable to the 27 inches of rain that pounded the Grand Prairie, Texas, track.
Lone Star handled just under $1.7 million a day on its races, down from the approximately $1.9 million during the 66-date meet in 2006. The biggest decline came offtrack, where Lone Star handled $1.2 million a day versus $1.5 in 2006.
Despite all the rain, average daily attendance rose 2.5 percent, to 7,100.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mike Fox and Alezzandro, winners of the first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown, both worked over Woodbine's main turf course on Sunday morning in preparation for the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes.
The Breeders', a 1 1/2-mile turf race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds that concludes the Triple Crown series, will be run here Sunday with a field of 12 expected.
The traffic cones were well out and the turf was firm as Mike Fox breezed five furlongs in 1:04.40 under jockey Emma Wilson and Alezzandro breezed six furlongs in 1:16.60 under Todd Kabel.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Street Sense was victorious in his comeback on Sunday in the Jim Dandy at Saratoga, the race targeted all along by trainer Carl Nafzger.
Monmouth Park officials had clung to the slim hope that extremely poor weather at Saratoga, would detour the Kentucky Derby winner their way for the $1 million Haskell Invitational for 3-year-olds on Sunday.
As fate would have it, Street Sense enjoyed a fast track while the Jersey Shore was deluged that afternoon by a heavy downpour.
Lewis Michael's romp Saturday in the Grade 2 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington Park prompted trainer Wayne Catalano to call the effort the colt's "best race ever, comparable to nothing." He earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 105.
Lewis Michael, the odds-on favorite, drew off to win the 1 3/16-mile Washington Park Cap by nearly five lengths. A 4-year-old Rahy colt bred and owned by Frank Calabrese, Lewis Michael registered his first graded win in the $300,000 Washington Park, marking his sixth victory from 18 starts.
DEL MAR, Calif. -- A parade of longshots on Sunday at Del Mar has produced a one-day carryover of $212,528 into the pick six on Monday's card.
The Monday program begins at 2 p.m. Pacific time, with the pick six beginning with the third race, at approximately 3 p.m.
Form was so difficult to find on Sunday that not one ticket was alive heading into the day's final race.
Monday's pick six has several small fields. Three of the races have fields of seven runners, and another has only eight runners.
DEL MAR, Calif. -- In Summation, whose career began with promise in Florida two years ago but had been in a funk for most of the past 18 months, broke through with the biggest victory of his career on Sunday when he just held off Gregs Gold to win the Grade 1, $300,000 Bing Crosby Handicap for older sprinters at Del Mar.
In Summation ($18.40) lasted to win by a nose in 1:11.06 for six furlongs on Polytrack. Reflecting the slow times on the new surface, that was the fastest six furlongs of the 11-day-old meeting.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Street Sense, the Kentucky Derby winner, returned to the Saratoga winner's circle to a standing ovation from an announced crowd of 46,876 after wearing down a dead game C P West to register a hard-fought 1 1/2-length victory in Sunday's $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Michael Baze, the leading rider at Del Mar, was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla for precautionary X-rays after being thrown from his mount Lyrical Sound, who broke down badly near the wire in the first race at Del Mar on Sunday.
According to track officials, Baze was to have X-rays taken of his leg. Baze was removed from the turf course on a back board after having his neck placed in a brace.