SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has won a million-dollar race and the Kentucky Oaks twice.
He's trained numerous stakes winners and is usually among the nation's leaders in victories and win percentage.
But one of the best training jobs of his career has come with Boss Ego, who scored a victory at age 11 last Thursday after going 0 for 8 with 2 seconds and 4 thirds as a 10-year-old.
Racing at Fair Grounds was halted midway through Tuesday's card because of a small fire in a bathroom. The blaze in the end was contained to the bathroom, located on the east side of the track's second floor, but Fair Grounds was evacuated and racing canceled as a precautionary measure before New Orleans fire department personnel extinguished the fire.
"They didn't know if it was spreading horizontally or vertically, so the decision was made to evacuate," said Fair Grounds' president, Randy Soth.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The cards are on the table. But is there a tell? Handicappers, and trainers eyeing a potential claim, both will be trying to follow their instincts with The Yellow Sheet, who takes a sharp drop in class for Thursday's featured seventh race at Santa Anita.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Teuflesberg has been regarded by some as a sprinter, but his trainer, Jamie Sanders, has long expected him to be effective around two turns, and after his win Monday in the $250,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn, she plans to keep him on the track's path to the Arkansas Derby.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - After giving Street Sense some time off to mature and several easy works to build a little foundation, trainer Carl Nafzger finally put the pedal down on Sunday morning when working his Eclipse Award winner five furlongs in 1:00.80 at Palm Meadows. The move was the second-fastest at the distance, behind only the 1:00.40 clocking posted by the multiple graded stakes winner Indian Vale.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Teuflesberg got the jump on the field at the start, and led throughout to win the $250,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Monday at 23-1, as 1-2 favorite Hard Spun was wide on both turns and finished fourth. Teuflesberg won by 1 1/2 lengths over a late-running Officer Rocket, while it was another length back to Forty Grams in third.
My Creed ($6.40) settled in last early before uncorking a strong stretch run to capture the $53,975 Presidents' Day Handicap at Bay Meadows.
Jockey Modesto Linares did not hurry the 6-year-old gelding as Roscoe Pito set fast early fractions with Dr. Einstein sitting just off him. My Creed was last as Roscoe Pito ran a 22.66 opening quarter and 45.59 half in the 1 1/16-mile race.
Wollaston Bay, beaten as the odds-on favorite by Bill Place in last month's Jimmy Winkfield Stakes, turned the tables on that rival Monday, recording a 1 1/4-length, front-running score in the $70,070 Fred "Cappy" Capossela Stakes at Aqueduct.
Breaking sharply from the outside post under Shaun Bridgmohan, Wollaston Bay carved out fractions of 22.94 seconds, 46.46, and 58.22, and covered six furlongs in 1:10.75 over a fast inner track. Wollaston Bay, a son of Sea of Secrets trained by Gary Sciacca and owned by One Pond Stable, returned $9.40.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Ticket to Seattle, who impressed her connections enough to warrant the opportunity to run against Grade 1 competition at 2, will open her 3-year-old campaign against more suitable allowance opposition in Wednesday's $48,000 main event at Gulfstream Park.
