STICKNEY, Ill. - No Tolerance bounded out to a clear early lead - and bounded home a winner of the Grade 3 , the first graded stakes victory of his career.
ARCADIA, Calif. - In a year when Bernardini is considered the horse to beat in the Breeders' Cup Classic, and Henny Hughes is a top contender for the Breeders' Cup Sprint, another 3-year-old emerged as a serious Breeders' Cup prospect on Saturday when the filly Wait a While embarrassed her seven older rivals in the Grade 1, $400,000 at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting.
STICKNEY, Ill. - Who knows what It's No Joke would have done had trainer Becky Maker chosen to start the horse Saturday in the Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park. What he did in the on Saturday was win it, beating heavily favored A. P. Arrow by one length, and giving both Maker and jockey Eddie Razo the biggest win of their careers.
Maker entered It's No Joke on Wednesday in the Turfway race, and on Thursday in Hawthorne's, but it wasn't until Friday that she decided which way she'd go - Chi-town.
PARIS - Without a runner in Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Godolphin made amends to a certain degree by winning both the Group 1 Prix de la Foret with Caradak and the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein with Echo of Light on Saturday as Longchamp kicked off its big Arc weekend.
A 5-year-old son of Desert Style, Caradak emerged form his short-neck score in the seven-furlong $320,000 Foret as a Breeders' Cup Mile possible, although Librettist remains the first Godolphin choice for the race.
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.