NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Ohio-bred divisional honors will be on the line Friday when Thistledown serves as the site for this year's Best of Ohio, a series of five statebred stakes which rotates among the state's three Thoroughbred tracks. The combined value of the Best of Ohio stakes is $425,000.
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DRF Past Performances
Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes (Grade 1)
1 Mile (Turf)
3-year-olds and upward
Purse $600,000. To be run as Race 9 at Keeneland on Saturday
1. Silent Name - V. Espinoza - 126 lbs.
2. Miesque's Approval - E. Castro - 126 lbs.
3. Aussie Rules - G. Gomez - 123 lbs.
4. Remarkable News - R. Douglas - 126 lbs.
5. Hendrix - D. Flores - 126 lbs.
6. Cosmonaut - J. Leparoux - 126 lbs.
7. Old Dodge - R. Albarado - 126 lbs.
8. British Blue - C. Mejia - 126 lbs.
9. Three Valleys - R. Bejarano - 126 lbs.
Lane's End Breeders' Futurity (Grade 1)
1 1/16 Miles (Polytrack)
2-year-olds
Purse $500,000. To be run as Race 8 at Keeneland on Saturday.
1. Circular Quay - G. Gomez
2. Great Hunter - V. Espinoza
3. French Transition - J. Leparoux
4. Teuflesberg - W. Martinez
5. Birdbirdistheword - R. Albarado
6. Passport - C. Lanerie
7. Street Sense - C. Borel
8. Bold Start - L. Melancon
All runners carry 121 lbs.
Birdbirdistheword has stepped up his game with more distance, as evidenced by his win last month in the $100,000 Juvenile at Louisiana Downs. Now, he will step up in class.
Trainer Ken McPeek said on Tuesday that Birdbirdistheword will run in Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland.
Birdbirdistheword ran a career race in the Juvenile, when he stalked the pace en route to a half-length win over stakes winner Going Ballistic. Birdbirdistheword earned a career-best Beyer Figure of 82 in the 1 1/16-mile turf race.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Thursday's Woodbine feature, a prep for the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes on Oct. 22, is hard to fathom. The most accomplished runner in the six-furlong turf allowance, Are You Serious, is a dirt specialist, and the best grass runners in the lineup are winless on the turf this year.
ELMONT, N.Y. - The disappointment trainer Kiaran McLaughlin may feel about not being able to run Invasor in Saturday's $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup is counteracted by his enthusiasm about being able to run Henny Hughes in the $400,000 Vosburgh Stakes the same day.
Invasor contracted a fever last Thursday, and though he returned to the main track for a jog on Tuesday morning, he missed enough training time to force him out of the Gold Cup and a meeting with leading 3-year-old Bernardini.
The LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society, which has done its share of rescuing horses since being founded in 2000, has become the beneficiary of a magnanimous gesture.
The local Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association has pledged .25 percent of its purse account to LongRun. The purse account is funded by the horsemen's share of the various wagering pools and 10 percent of the track's slots revenue.
AUBURN, Wash. - Emerald Downs closed its 10th anniversary season on Sunday and established records for average daily handle and average daily purse distribution.
Wagering from all sources on Emerald's live races averaged $843,832 per day, a gain of 4.8 percent. That gain was the result of a sharp increase in out-of-state wagering on Emerald's races, from $480,000 per day last year to $529,640, a rise of 10.3 percent.
Meanwhile, in-state wagering on full-card simulcasts declined from $576,201 per day to $539,156 per day.
All eyes will be on Straight Faced on Oct. 14, when he goes for a sweep of the Florida Stallion Stakes in the $400,000 In Reality Stakes. On Monday morning, however, the only eyes on Straight Faced that mattered were those of trainer Steve DiMauro, who watched intently as Straight Faced worked six furlongs in 1:16.40 and galloped out seven furlongs in 1:29.82 shortly after the renovation break.