EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - After a slow start this season, Silver Moose shows signs of solid improvement heading into the $55,000 King Bold Reality Stakes Tuesday afternoon at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
The race itself was also slow to develop. Originally slated for Friday night, the five-furlong turf stakes finally came together for the first matinee of the meet, which runs through Nov. 11. First post is 1:10 p.m.
ELMONT, N.Y. - A week ago, Godolphin Racing's prospects for the Breeders' Cup Mile were looking bleak as Proclamation and Librettist emerged lame from the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in Ascot.
Saturday, Godolphin Racing's prospects for the BC Mile improved immensely as Caradak won a Group 1 race in France and Ashkal Way won the Grade 2, $250,000 at Belmont Park.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - McDynamo tuned up for the Breeders' Cup Steeplechase with an easy win in the $75,000 Somerset Medical Center Stakes on Friday, opening night at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
McDynamo, 9, needed a solid prep after making only one start this season. The winner of the Breeders' Cup the last three years served notice he remains the horse to beat in the big one on Oct. 28 at Far Hills, N.J.
Magna Entertainment intends to proceed with the development of a 51-acre open-air shopping mall on its property at Santa Anita Park in Southern California, the company announced Thursday.
Ron Charles, the chief executive officer of Santa Anita, said that shopping mall would be located south of the Santa Anita grandstand and incorporate parts of the Santa Anita parking lot running east toward Huntington Drive. The mall would have 800,000 square feet of development for retail stores and restaurants.
Dutch Art scored a two-length win in the Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket on Friday. The 6-5 favorite in a field of six and ridden by Frankie Dettori, Dutch Art took the lead two furlongs from home and looked to have plenty in reserve at the end of the six-furlongs.
The other Group 1 on the card, the Cheveley Park Stakes for 2-year-old fillies over the same six-furlongs, lost most of its luster with the scratch of the favored Sander Camillo on account of the rain-softened ground. Indian Ink relished the conditions, though, winning by a neck over Dhanyata.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The last time Seaside Retreat raced on a surface other than turf was the Kentucky Derby.
On Sunday, Seaside Retreat will be returning to a main track and a derby of a different sort in the Ontario Derby, which will be run over 1 1/8 miles on Polytrack here at Woodbine.
Seaside Retreat, a Kentucky-bred owned by Bill Farish Jr. and trained by Mark Casse, has started three times on turf since finishing 10th of 20 in the May 5 Kentucky Derby.
Jockey Patrick Valenzuela rode one winner from three mounts at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting Thursday, his first mounts in California following a two-month absence in which he spent part of the time hospitalized for undisclosed reasons.
The program was the first time that Valenzuela had ridden in California since the end of the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting in July. He sought to return in early September, but that was delayed while discussions took place between the California Horse Racing Board and Valenzuela's advisors about the terms of his return.
ELMONT, N.Y. - For Discreet Cat, the hardest part of Sunday's Grade 2 Jerome Handicap may have been getting the entry box to close. Surprisingly, five other 3-year-olds were entered against him in the $150,000 Jerome, contested at a one-turn mile at Belmont Park.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Nechako heads a strong field of Canadian-foaled 2-year-olds in the $100,000 Jack Diamond Futurity at Hastings on Sunday.
Nine have been entered in the 6 1/2-furlong feature, and although there are plenty of contenders, Nechako is clearly the one to beat.
Nechako, owned and trained by Sid Martin, deserves to be favored off his sharp win in the New Westminster Stakes on Aug. 27. The horse who finished second, Thesaratogaexpress, came back to win the CTHS Sales Stakes on Sept. 10, and he beat many of the horses Nechako will face in the Futurity.