ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Leonnatus Anteas, Canada's champion 2-year-old of 2006, will make his first start of the year at Woodbine on Sunday in an unusual spot.
Leonnatus Anteas, undefeated in three starts at 2, will be facing older rivals while competing under third-level allowance conditions in an $80,000 optional claimer at seven furlongs.
Trainer Kevin Attard said he wanted to race him this weekend, and had the Sunday race not gone he had a potential alternative at Fort Erie.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - With more than $1 million in earnings and three graded stakes wins, Buzzards Bay approaches a summer campaign on the verge of joining the nation's top handicap horses.
At least, that's what owner Gary Broad and trainer Ron Ellis are hoping.
Saturday in the $250,000 Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park, Buzzards Bay will attempt to win his first stakes of 2007, a race that serves as a key prep to the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on June 30.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer Tracy McCarthy and her husband, retired jockey Chris Loseth, will be making a trip to Ontario this August.
Loseth, who was recently voted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, will be there for the induction ceremony, which will be held at the Mississauga Convention Centre on Aug. 23.
MIAMI - Nobody would have blamed jockey Constantino Hernandez if he "needed a race" when he rode Falcon's Dream in Monday's third event at Calder Race Course. After all, it was the first mount for Hernandez in more than 19 years.
The last time Hernandez had ridden was on April 23, 1988, his 31st birthday, in a 1 1/8-mile turf race at Calder. His horse, Flying Rice, fell suddenly while dueling for the lead entering the clubhouse turn. Hernandez was thrown to the ground and then trampled by several horses, one of whom stepped on his head.
NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - The $50,000 Michael F. Rowland Stakes on Friday signals the beginning of Ohio Derby weekend at Thistledown. The race is named for the local riding champion who died as a result of injuries suffered in a spill at Turfway Park in 2004.
The six-furlong race has drawn seven Ohio-breds, topped by multiple stakes winner Catlaunch, who will be seeking a repeat win in the Rowland. Catlaunch is coming off a statebred allowance win here May 17. The victory was the 10th in his last 15 starts.
It is entirely possible that a horse beaten in his last start by 52 lengths - a horse that in his last start earned a paltry Beyer Speed Figure of 33 - could be favored in the Ohio Derby on Saturday at Thistledown. Such is life in the Age of Pletcher.
All three of Trout River Red's victories the past two seasons had come against Illinois-breds. Tuesday night at Mountaineer Race Track, she proved she can beat open stakes company.
Emerging with a slight lead at the quarter pole following a four-way battle up front, Trout River Red ($7) edged clear to post a two-length victory in the $75,000 Ohio Valley Handicap for fillies and mares.
A 4-year-old ridden by Danush Sukie for trainer Kelly Ackerman, Trout River Red covered six furlongs over a fast track in 1:11.37.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Kip Deville, who finished sixth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Breeders' Cup Mile on the turf Monday, was supplemented to Saturday's $250,000 Californian Stakes on Wednesday and is "50-50" to run, according to assistant trainer Chip Dutrow. The Grade 2 Californian will be run at 1 1/8 miles over the Cushion Track.
Kip Deville finished two lengths behind race winner The Tin Man in the Shoemaker. He chased a slow pace under jockey Richard Migliore and failed to quicken in the stretch.
Patti Cooksey, the second-leading all-time female jockey, will be the guest of honor this Saturday when River Downs holds "Ladies Day," a fund-raiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, which provides support to victims of breast cancer and their families. Cooksey, who retired from riding in 2004, is a breast cancer survivor.
Racing fans at Lincoln took it on the chin over the Memorial Day weekend, with early cancellations of racing on both Saturday and Sunday because of wet track conditions.
Saturday evening's card was canceled after the first race after riders cited unsafe conditions following a heavy downpour early that morning that left the track still carrying standing water by the 6:30 p.m. post time.
On Sunday, the riders elected not to continue after three races over the muddy track, citing soft and uneven spots, especially nearing the stretch of the five-eighth-mile oval.