VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Washington invader A Classic Life heads a full field of 3-year-old fillies in the Grade 3, $150,000 Breeders' Cup Oaks at Hastings Sunday. After the Knight appears to be the leading contender among the locally based horses, but contention runs throughout the field and it's anyone's race.
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DM Shicago will be a strong favorite to become the third horse to sweep the three Grade 1 derbies at Ruidoso Downs in the $819,388 All American Derby on Sunday.
DM Shicago has made each of his 10 starts at Ruidoso and has six wins, including three Grade 1 stakes, and earnings of $1,401,389. His best distance is 440 yards, which makes him a perfect fit for the All American Derby. In addition, DM Shicago seems to be in peak form.
MIAMI - Trainer Larry Bates is hoping what started out to be a rough week will get a lot better on Sunday, when he sends out Ragtime Hope as one of the favorites in the $40,000 Ravolia Stakes on the turf.
Bates was still shook up long after a training-hour mishap resulted in jockey Jose Bello breaking ankle while aboard an unraced 2-year-old named Batesee here Tuesday morning.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Power Wave, winner of his first four starts before injuring his knee in the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue in November, will begin his comeback in Sunday's $70,000 Earlene McCabe Derby at Bay Meadows.
Sidelined nine months, Power Wave has earned bullets in his past four works.
"Hopefully, he'll be ready to kick butt, but I would have liked to get one more work into him," said trainer Michael Lenzini.
AUBURN, Wash. - The stage is set for an extraordinarily competitive renewal of the $100,000 Emerald Breeders' Cup Derby, which will be run Monday at 1 1/8 miles.
With no California invaders to scare away the locals, a full field of 12 is expected. Of those 12, only four have won a stakes and none has won more than a single one.
Happy Ticket might not be the only Louisiana Downs-based filly to ship to New York and win a Grade 1 during the current meet. Mykindasaint, who ran her career record to 3 for 3 with her win in last month's $50,000 Princess, could make her next start in the Grade 1 Matron at Belmont Park, said her trainer, Bubba Cascio.
Mykindasaint romped by five lengths in the Princess at Louisiana Downs on Aug. 28. She won her maiden at Lone Star Park on May 25 and won the $75,000 Cassidy Stakes at Calder Race Course on July 10.
A nonwinners-of-four allowance and three Quarter Horse stakes highlight a rare Sunday night program at Evangeline Downs.
All of the revenue generated by the track from Sunday evening's racing program will be donated to the Acadiana Chapter of the Red Cross Relief Fund to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The horsemen have also agreed to donate their share of the revenue.
"It's a night when our entire racing industry will unite to help our fellow Louisianians who are suffering from this horrific event," said Mike Howard, Evangeline Downs general manager.
Missy Can Do is strictly the one to catch when she stretches her speed out over 6 1/2 furlongs in a short field of five going in the $10,000-added Bill Callihan Handicap at Columbus.
Trained by Joe Thomas, Missy Can Do tuned up here on Aug. 20 with a front-running half-length win over Jay's Impact in an open allowance race. R. D. Williams will have the task of stretching Missy Can Do's speed out for the extra sixteenth of a mile as she defends her title in the Callihan. She carries high weight of 122 pounds and breaks from post 4.
Fisticuff heads a field of 11 Ohio-bred 2-year-olds scheduled to run six furlongs in the $40,000 Loyalty Stakes at Thistledown.
A chestnut gelded son of Mercer Mill out of E. Golden Honey, Fisticuff comes into the race off a sharp victory going 5 1/2 furlongs against statebred maidens on Aug. 22. His two starts before that were in stakes. He finished third in the six-furlong Cleveland Kindergarten at Thistledown on Aug. 12 and was fifth in the Hoover at River Downs.