ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Queen's Plate nominees Seeking Shelter and Bridgecut are among a five-horse field in Friday's third race at Woodbine, a 1 1/16-mile allowance for 3-year-olds.
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CALGARY, Alberta - Super Cruise and A Fiesta Champ square off for the third consecutive time here at Stampede Park in Friday's featured sixth race, a first-level allowance for 3-year-olds and up at one mile.
Super Cruise drew post 3, just inside A Fiesta Champ, and will once again be ridden by Rickey Walcott.
Super Cruise's three sprint races at this meet have all been strong for trainer Dale Saunders. Now Super Cruise just has to prove he can handle the stretch-out to clear this condition.
MIAMI - Most trainers are quick to grab all the accolades after winning a race - especially a graded stakes like Monday's Grade 3 Memorial Day Handicap at Calder. But trainer Dan Hurtak was more than willing to give much of the credit for Siphon City's game victory over the more seasoned, Grade 1-placed Congrats to his longtime assistant Donna Green.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ambitious Cat's consistent record in top-class company was enough to earn her the nod as Canada's champion older female turf horse last year.
But Ambitious Cat still has a gap in her resume, as she has yet to win a stakes race, and will be looking to rectify that situation here at Woodbine in Saturday's Grade 2 Nassau at 1 1/16 miles on turf.
"I like where she is at the moment," said Eric Coatrieux, who trains Ambitious Cat for the Chiefswood Stable of Bob and Mark Krembil. "We're kind of hoping she becomes a stakes winner."
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - When owner Donna Herrick lost her favorite dark bay Argentinean-bred horse to the claim box, she and her husband, William Herrick, asked trainer Darrell Vienna to find another one for her. He did, and Herrick Racing won't be losing this one to the claim box anytime soon.
Magnum, a striking dark bay from Argentina, is climbing the charts among the nation's older horses. Monday, he picked up his first stakes win when he proved much the best in the Grade 3, $400,000 Lone Star Park Handicap.
"It wasn't a bad trade," said Vienna.
Trainer Joe Petalino on Wednesday morning was going over the stakes schedules for a number of tracks around the country. He was looking at his options for Gallant Dreamer, who won her maiden impressively last weekend at Louisiana Downs.
"She's going to be the real deal, I believe," said Petalino.
Gallant Dreamer is one of 15 juveniles that Petalino has in training this season, and he said he feels the crop is one of his strongest ever.
Be a Bono, the 2004 world champion, and Gold Medal Jess, winner of the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Championship, each come off layoffs in the 400-yard trials to the Grade 1, $135,000 Vessels Maturity on Friday night at Los Alamitos.
Catlaunch figures to be an odds-on favorite over his six Ohio-bred rivals in the third running of the $50,000 Michael F. Rowland Memorial Handicap at six furlongs at Thistledown on Friday afternoon.
The 5-year-old Catlaunch comes into the race riding the crest of a three-race win streak in which his combined margin of victory is 17 lengths. Most recently, he won the six-furlong Edward Babst Memorial Handicap at Beulah Park on May 6. His other two wins came in middle-distance allowance races there.
The first 2-year old race of the meet was held last Friday, and Canterbury Park fans got a glimpse of a filly who may have a bright future.
First-time starter Donna's Dixie Lady was led to the saddling enclosure by her trainer, Troy Bethke, giving onlookers the impression he was leaving nothing to chance. Bred in Minnesota by her owner, James Peltier, Donna's Dixie Lady was sired by Dixie Union out of the A.P. Indy mare A.P. Indy's Lady, a pedigree that suggested that the well-balanced dark bay filly might have more than statebred conditions in her future.