ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Chicago lies at the eastern edge of the Central Time Zone, which means during December night starts creeping in not long past lunch. The darkness seems to fall harder at Hawthorne Race Course, where the horses run amid a cityscape of oil storage tanks, a tin plant, and a waste management terminal.
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ARCADIA, Calif. - Del Mar will be home for Woke Up Dreamin this summer, but he is due for a break after winning his second straight graded sprint last Sunday.
"He's had two good, hard races," trainer Bob Baffert said, adding that Woke Up Dreamin popped a small quarter crack after the Grade 2 Smile on Sunday at Calder. "I'm going to freshen him up, run him once this fall, then the Breeders' Cup."
The Breeders' Cup will be held Oct. 29 at Belmont Park, where Woke Up Dreamin won the Grade 2 True North Handicap.
Prospects for the seventh annual Claiming Crown have begun converging this week from all across North America to compete Saturday in the seven-race, $650,000 series at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn.
Claiming Crown coordinator Nat Wess said Tuesday that flights transporting horses from California and New York were scheduled to arrive in Minneapolis on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, respectively, and that horses from Kentucky, Chicago, and elsewhere "are coming in one, two, and three at a time."
Apprentice jockey Shannon Campbell has been paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an accident Saturday night at Charles Town Races in West Virginia.
Campbell, 34, was thrown when her 35-1 mount, Makin Violets, clipped heels going into the turn of the first race, a $5,000 maiden claiming race at 4 1/2 furlongs. The accident severed Campbell's spinal cord just above the waist, according to Jesus Sanchez, a rider's representative at the track, and Campbell's agent, Jodi Ramsburg.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The nine-race card at Lone Star Park on Thursday night could be considered an equal opportunity card. There are two entry-level allowance races on the program, one for males, and the other for females.
The boys are up first, with Boogie Hill taking on Vienna Circle in the seventh race, a one-mile allowance for 3- and 4-year-olds. Boogie Hill rallied for second at this distance and level last time, when he met one of the more impressive 3-year-olds at the meet in Thunder Mission.
VALLEJO, Calif. - There are many variables in horse racing, including the jockey. Thursday's feature race at the Solano County Fair, however, doesn't appear to be a race in which a rider's tactics can spell the difference between victory and defeat.
There are several obvious contenders in the $6,250 claimer for nonwinners of two races lifetime, and several who seem overmatched in the 5 1/2-furlong race no matter who is aboard.
CHICAGO - On May 29, trainer Greg Geier slipped Vitamin Bag into an overnight turf stakes at Arlington, and she scored by a half-length at odds of 40-1. Three weeks later, Geier sent You Dancing Devil into an entry-level Illinois-bred turf allowance race, and this one won at odds of 61-1.
Rarely has the crusty axiom, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me," been more appropriate.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Jambalaya will prep for a possible start in the Aug. 7 Breeders' Stakes, the third leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, in Thursday's Woodbine feature, a 1 3/8-mile preliminary allowance on the grass.
Jambalaya was beaten by more than 10 lengths in both of his main track outings early in the meeting, but found new life in his first turf attempt at 1 1/16 miles on June 12. After an outside stalking trip, he won his maiden by daylight that day, earning a respectable 84 Beyer Speed Figure.