DEL MAR, Calif. - There's no questioning the talent of Honorable Coach, who is graded stakes placed. It's his disposition that has trainer John Shirreffs keeping a close eye on him.
"He's been a little anxious," Shirreffs said.
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DRF Past Performances
DEL MAR, Calif. - Tucked Away, the surprise winner of the Grade 2 Clement Hirsch Handicap on Sunday, will defend her title in the $125,000 Solana Beach Handicap for California-bred fillies and mares on Sept. 4.
Tucked Away has raced primarily in statebred stakes in the last year. The $300,000 Hirsch Handicap is the most prominent win of her career.
Haskell Day capped the biggest racing weekend of the year for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the owner and operator of Monmouth Park and The Meadowlands Racetrack.
Total attendance was 75,034 for the Saturday-Sunday period as the two tracks presented their premier 3-year-old events.
The Meadowlands concluded its Standardbred season Saturday with the $1.5 million Hambletonian. Monmouth ran the $1 million Haskell on Sunday.
Ontrack wagering reached $7,097,834 for the two days.
AUBURN, Wash - Eleven graded stakes winners, including two former winners, are among the 25 horses nominated to the Grade 3, $250,000 Longacres Mile on Aug. 21 at Emerald Downs.
Former Mile winners among the nominees are Sabertooth, who won in 2002, and Adreamisborn, the defending champ.
Adreamisborn's trainer, Jerry Hollendorfer, also nominated Yougottawanna, whose $671,099 in career earnings tops the list. Yougottawanna would appear the more likely of the Hollendorfer-trained duo to run, as Adreamisborn won at Santa Rosa just last Saturday.
CINCINNATI - An old saw in Ohio is that if a horse is an Ohio-bred he should probably stay there, and with over $1.9 million in stakes purses set aside for statebreds at Ohio's three Thoroughbred tracks, there is plenty of economic incentive to do just that.
Jockey John Jacinto compiled quite a past performance line last weekend at Louisiana Downs. He won nine races between Saturday and Sunday, and the combined winning margin of his mounts was 52 3/4 lengths.
The decisive nature of the wins seems to parallel the tone of Jacinto's meet, as he leads all riders with 86 wins, 15 more than second-leading rider Guy Smith.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Network has owner-trainer Eddie Broome thinking he might be ready for the Pennsylvania Derby.
The Grade 2, $750,000 Pennsylvania Derby on Labor Day at Philadelphia Park is under consideration after Network won the $100,000 Lamplighter for 3-year-olds on the turf Sunday on Monmouth Park's Haskell Day undercard. It was his second straight stakes win.
"I might just take a shot at a graded stakes," Broome said. "I am a homeboy and I wish all the races were here at Monmouth, but I am going to take a look at the Pennsylvania Derby."
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Reade Baker's duo of Judiths Wild Rush and Silver Bird fared the best of five Woodbine invaders at Monmouth last Sunday, when each finished third in a $100,000 stakes.
Judiths Wild Rush missed second by a head in the six-furlong Teddy Drone, which Wildcat Heir won by 5 3/4 lengths.
"He didn't seem himself down there; he was awfully quiet," said Baker. "He wasn't going to handle the winner, but he should have been a distinct second."
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Bay Meadows will offer 11 stakes worth $830,000 during its 33-day fall meeting, which begins Aug. 26.
The highlight of the meet is the Grade 3, $125,000 Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on the turf. Two $100,000 California-bred turf stakes are also scheduled, the California Turf Championship at one mile on Labor Day and a new five-furlong sprint on Sept. 24, the California Turf Sprint Championship, which replaces the California Sprint Championship on the main track.