AUBURN, Wash. - T's So Shy will attempt to make good on her early promise in Thursday's six-furlong feature at Emerald Downs, a $25,000 claiming race that drew eight fillies and mares.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The six 3-year-olds in Thursday's Woodbine feature are all trying the grass for the first time in the seven-furlong allowance. Golden Mood is a standout on pedigree, and his readiness following a seven-month layoff is what handicappers must ponder when sizing up his chances.
It's a safe bet that nobody has traveled farther to participate in racing at Louisiana Downs this meet than jockey Jose Verenzuela and his agent, Keith Dickey. Both came here from Saudi Arabia, where Verenzuela was a contract rider for King Abdullah and Dickey ran a 2-year-old barn for Prince Sultan.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A week after sweeping divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes at Belmont Park, trainer Steve Asmussen will be in a position to capture both $100,000-estimated divisions of the Texas Thoroughbred Association Sales Futurity at Lone Star Park.
Asmussen will start the probable favorite and fastest qualifier in each race, to be run here Saturday. Grade 3 winner Datrick is one of four starters Asmussen has for the colts division of the TTA. For the fillies division, a race Asmussen has won a record six times, he will be represented by Miss Mary Pat.
AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Junior Coffey said Raise the Bluff emerged from his come-from-behind victory in Sunday's 6 1/2-furlong Pepsi-Cola Handicap in good shape, but he was not ready to commit to running the 3-year-old back in the one-mile Tacoma Handicap July 2.
"It seems as though he runs best with plenty of time between his races, so I really don't know if he will be back for the next stakes or not," said Coffey. "I'll just keep watching him and see if he won't tell me when he is ready to run again."
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Pipers Thunder, who won last Sunday's in only his third start, will be joined in the June 25 Queen's Plate at Woodbine by the formidable Wanna Runner, Malakoff, and Shillelagh Slew.
But those four seem to be little deterrent to several of the others who ran in the 1 1/8-mile Plate Trial, as the second- through sixth-place finishers are also on schedule to run in the $1 million Queen's Plate at 1 1/4 miles.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Brother Derek, the Santa Anita Derby winner who finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, is being given a month-long break and will resume racing during the Del Mar meeting this summer, trainer Dan Hendricks said on Sunday.
The top 3-year-old in California this year, Brother Derek passed a battery of physical tests last week, including a nuclear scan, Hendricks said.
"It's good with a nice horse to find there is no underlying problem," Hendricks said of the nuclear scan.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It took Film Fortune eight tries to win his first race, a span that included a fifth in the Grade 3 Rebel Stakes and a seventh in the Grade 2 Arkansas Derby earlier this year.
According to trainer Jack Van Berg, Film Fortune is underrated and his stylish victory in a maiden race on the Hollywood Park turf May 6 was an indication of his true ability.
"I thought he should have won the Arkansas Derby," Van Berg said. "I thought he was that kind of horse."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Since the Keeneland meet began in early April, Julien Leparoux and Rafael Bejarano have been nearly inseparable on the Kentucky circuit - in the win department, anyway.
Leparoux and Bejarano tied for the Keeneland riding title, and, remarkably enough, after 27 programs at the Churchill Downs spring meet, they are just one win apart. Having gone back and forth on the lead last week, Leparoux recaptured the top spot, 43-42, by winning three races to Bejarano's one on Sunday.