Jockey Terry Houghton wasted no time getting back to his winning ways, opening the Great Lakes Downs meet by winning the early daily double with Camp Counselor ($4) and the veteran Breakaway Quietly ($5). Houghton came back on the second night and won three consecutive races: Ground Game ($6.40) won the second, Rainbow Sally ($6.40) won the third, and Phyls Jr ($26) won the fourth. Houghton added a win on Clear Power ($5.40) in Tuesday's eighth race and leads the jockey standings with six wins.
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Fans got another peek at a rising star last Thursday, when Fight Girl, a 3-year-old filly, won a second-level statebred allowance by five lengths. The victory was the third in nine starts for Fight Girl, who was second in the Tah Dah and Miss Ohio stakes last season.
The Grade 1 Sam Houston Futurity for Quarter Horses is the highlight of a 30-race stakes schedule to be run during Sam Houston Race Park's annual meet for Quarter Horses. The season will open on June 23 and run for 38 days, through Sept. 9.
The $100,000-added Sam Houston Futurity is a 400-yard race to be run Sept. 8. Another stakes of note is the Grade 2, $50,000-added Sam Houston Classic for 3-year-olds and up on Sept. 1.
Trainer Martin Lozano's stable has one of the highest win percentages in this region, so it is no surprise to find him dominating the Will Rogers Downs meet in Claremore, Okla. He has won with 26 of 76 starters, 16 more than the second-leading trainer, Zachary Armstrong.
Lozano has a 28-horse stable at Will Rogers, and he looks to keep his barn's momentum going through the end of the meet, May 28.
"We're going to try to enter in every race we can to finish pretty strong," said Lozano.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A first-level allowance race for Ontario-sired runners on a weekday afternoon at Woodbine might seem like a far cry from a race like the $1 million Queen's Plate.
But Pyramid Park, one of the top 2-year-olds here last year, will be looking to take his first serious step on the road to the June 25 Queen's Plate in just such a race here Friday.
The 1 1/16-mile allowance attracted a field of six, including one 4-year-old and one 5-year-old, and Pyramid Park should be a prohibitive choice to take home the winner's share of the $69,100 purse.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Toubeeb and Penalty Peat will likely battle for the early lead in Friday's featured seventh race at Assiniboia Downs, a second-level allowance with a claiming option of $16,000 at five furlongs. The race has drawn a field of six older males.
Toubeeb won 2 of 3 starts here last year, including one at this level. A 5-year-old son of Labeeb, Toubeeb returned to the barn of trainer Tom Gardipy Jr. after finishing sixth against $30,000 claimers at Stampede Park in early April. Gardipy was one of two trainers who won three races on opening weekend.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Lemons Forever, the longest-priced winner in history, may not race again until either the July 1 Mother Goose Stakes or July 22 Coaching Club American Oaks, both at Belmont Park, trainer Dallas Stewart said Tuesday.
Stewart, based at Churchill Downs, said Lemons Forever definitely will not run next in the June 10 Acorn Stakes, a one-mile race that is frequently used as a next race by Oaks winners.
"It's just too short for her," he said.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When Rich in Spirit and Cape Hope clashed as the favorites among a deep field of 3-year-old turf fillies last June in the Grade 3 Regret Stakes at Churchill Downs, it would have been risky to predict that both would go winless for nearly 11 months afterward.
Nonetheless, has failed to win in three subsequent starts since emerging victorious in the Regret under the since-retired Gary Stevens. Cape Hope, fifth that afternoon when ridden by the since-retired Jerry Bailey, also has failed to win in three subsequent races.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Handicappers looking to get a handle on the filly-and-mare division should go to school on Thursday's feature at Belmont Park, a $65,000 overnight stakes named the Mil Kilates. The mile race drew a field of six, all 4-year-old fillies.
All except , a restricted stakes winner at Belmont last fall, return from a layoff.
Nothing But Fun starts for the first time since finishing seventh in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, a decent effort considering she beat half the field her first time in Grade 1 company.