VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Miss Me Not should have a decent pace to close into when she makes her 2006 debut in the Hastings feature race Sunday. The optional $50,000 claiming race drew 12 3-year-old fillies, but only 10 will be allowed to start. The horses that make up the body of the race are all eligible for a first-level allowance race, and the 6 1/2-furlong event appears to be wide open.
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DRF Past Performances
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Good luck trying to keep up with the best California-bred sprinters these days.
In late March and early April, California-bred sprinters won graded stakes at venues as diverse as Arkansas and Dubai.
On March 25, Proud Tower Too won the $2 million Golden Shaheen at Nad Al Sheba racecourse in Dubai, outrunning fellow California-breds Thor's Echo and Jet West. On April 13, Bordonaro won the Grade 3 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn Park.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Before he became rich and famous, Lava Man was a useful turf horse. also was a claiming horse, which makes him a fitting equine celebrity for the $1.3 million California Gold Rush program Sunday at Hollywood Park.
Six stakes are included on the 10-race program for California-bred runners, with a recurring theme. That is, you don't have to spend a fortune to buy a good horse. Just ask trainer Doug O'Neill, who claimed Lava Man for $50,000 two years ago and developed him into a Grade 1 winner with earnings of more than $2 million.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Trainer Roger Attfield and owner Gary Tanaka made it a sweep of Keeneland's two graded marathon turf stakes by sending out longshot Pellegrino to a three-quarter-length victory over Go Deputy in the Grade 3, $200,000 Elkhorn Stakes before 17,624 fans on closing day of the spring meet.
The victory came just two days after Attfield and Tanaka won the Grade 3 Bewitch with odds-on favorite Noble Stella. Both races are run at 1 1/2 miles.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Funny Cide's return to statebred company for the first time since he was a 2-year-old highlights closing day Sunday at Aqueduct, which includes three restricted stakes.
Racing shifts to Belmont Park on Wednesday. The final Big A card features the $65,000 Kings Point Handicap at 1 1/8 miles and two $100,000 divisions of New York Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs, which were rained out on April 23.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When Stream Cat last raced, he competed against Stevie Wonderboy, Henny Hughes, and First Samurai in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. In Sunday's ninth race at Churchill Downs - a $58,000 second-level allowance - he will find himself among less-accomplished company.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Areyoutalkintome looked like a useful claim in December 2003 when he was plucked from a $32,000 maiden claiming win at Hollywood Park.
Two and a half years later, the 5-year-old gelding by Smokester is still going strong. His 30-start career includes 3 stakes wins, 8 wins overall, and earnings of $592,667.
"He's just a warrior, he tries every time," trainer Doug O'Neill said.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Trainer Marty Jones will have a busy afternoon at Hollywood Park on Sunday.
On the 10-race California Gold Rush program, Jones has six starters in five races, three in stakes and three in maiden and allowance races that have been given higher-than-normal purses for the card, dedicated to California-breds.
Those lesser races will provide Jones with his best chance for success.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Northern California-based Bai and Bai snuck into Southern California last November and scored an 8-1 surprise in the $125,000 California Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. The win stamped her as a division leader, and blew her cover. returns south for the $200,000 Melair Stakes on Sunday at Hollywood Park, and by now, she is too good to sneak up on anyone.