A wise man once said that a good horse can win "running up a tin roof or over broken glass," the point being that track conditions can be vastly overrated.
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DRF Past Performances
MIAMI - While division leader In Summation cools his heels awaiting next month's In Reality Stakes and an opportunity to sweep the open division of the Florida Stallion Stakes, a couple of his promising stablemates will attempt to pick up the slack in Saturday's $150,000 Foolish Pleasure Breeders' Cup Stakes at Calder.
The mile-and-70-yard Foolish Pleasure is one of four stakes race to be decided on Calder's 13-race Festival of the Sun preview card.
MIAMI - Mia's Reflection was 29-1 when she won her maiden in the Lindsay Frolic Stakes on Sept. 3. She will be a considerably shorter price when she returns Saturday at Calder to face nine other 2-year-old fillies in the $150,000 Brave Raj Breeders' Cup Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. - The Jockey Club Gold Cup is run in New York, but it will have a distinct Southern Californian flavor to it.
Lava Man, the Hollywood Gold Cup winner, became the latest West Coast-based horse to join the field for the $1 million Gold Cup, to be run next Saturday at Belmont Park. The Gold Cup is a stepping-stone to the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic, which will be held at Belmont on Oct. 29.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - It's pretty nice to have a horse who can look at a $100,000 stakes as a prep for other races.
That's the case for Bonfante's trainer, Steve Specht, who sees Saturday's $100,000 California Turf Sprint Championship at Bay Meadows as a prep for the Cal Cup at Oak Tree.
The five-furlong turf race drew nine entrants, including the defending Cal Cup Sprint champion, Areyoutalkintome, who drew the rail for his turf debut.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Turf specialist Elle Runaway will try the main track Saturday at Woodbine in the $135,875 La Lorgnette Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies.
Elle Runaway, trained by Malcolm Pierce for Live Oak Plantation, put it all together in her last two starts on turf, winning the Ontario Colleen Handicap and the allowance prep for that stakes.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Local star Alabama Rain will have to run the race of his life to cross the wire first in a very competitive field of 3-year-olds in the Grade 2, $250,000 British Columbia Derby at Hastings on Saturday.
Of the 12 horses entered in the 1 1/8-mile B.C. Derby, six, including Emerald Downs Breeders' Cup Derby winner Alexandersrun, are shipping in from other jurisdictions.
EDMONTON, Alberta - The $50,000 Beaufort could be the most interesting race on Saturday's Alberta Fall Classic Day at Northlands Park, which features seven stakes for Alberta-breds worth a total of $400,000.
The Beaufort, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds, attracted a field of 10 and in large part figures to be a showdown between Alberta Derby champion Knight's Covenant and Canadian Derby runner-up Ding Dong Dandy.
Also returning from the 1 3/8-mile Canadian Derby are Cinderchance and Forever Rascal.
With a well-heeled owner and apprenticeships under two Hall of Famers behind him, Reynaldo Abreu appears to have a bright future as a trainer. But even the brightest prospects often need to take some cuts in the minors, and this former Nick Zito assistant has been taking advantage of his chances at Suffolk Downs.