SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Monday's holiday card at Canterbury Park is topped by two stakes named for the Minnesota Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, the $40,000 HBPA Sprint for 3-year-olds and up and the $40,000 HBPA Mile for fillies and mares on the turf.
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FORT ERIE, Ontario - Two of Fort Erie's most popular runners in recent years, Le Cinquieme Essai and Lenny the Lender, get top billing in Monday's $100,000 Daryl Wells Sr. Memorial Stakes, a supporting feature to the Bison City Stakes.
A 1 1/16-mile race scheduled for the turf, the Daryl Wells Memorial is Fort Erie's first stakes of the meet. The race is is restricted to Canadian-breds and drew five runners.
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Trainer Chuck Jenda is not known for making many claims, but he never had a second thought about plunking down $62,500 to claim Lucky Sabre two weeks ago.
Jenda said he hopes to get a quick return on the investment when he sends Lucky Sabre 1 1/16 miles against six rivals in the $50,000 Alameda County Fillies and Mares Handicap at Pleasanton on Monday.
"We want to try to run her in stakes around here, but [owner Stonestreet Stables] wanted her as a broodmare, and this was a price they were willing to pay," Jenda said.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It may take an international cast of 3-year-old fillies to finally give the undefeated Melhor Ainda a proper test in Sunday's $750,000 American Oaks at Hollywood Park. Perfect after four starts, including three stakes wins, Melhor Ainda will be a strong favorite in the American Oaks, the richest turf race in the nation for 3-year-old fillies.
Like the past three runnings, the Grade 1 American Oaks has drawn fillies from around the world, including stakes winners from Japan, Italy, and Ireland.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Just try having more fun at the races than Braden Huenefeld, Michael Rosenmayer, and Aron Wellman are by owning Three Degrees, who starts in Sunday's $750,000 American Oaks at Hollywood Park.
They collectively own only a quarter-interest in Three Degrees, a stakes-winning filly, but have been living a dream this year.
They have had baseball caps made in Three Degrees's honor, they track her every move on mornings when she works, and they have invited loads of friends to witness Sunday's race.
Hollywood Park's American Oaks nearly produced a Japanese winner last year when Dance in the Mood chased home Ticker Tape after having been caught flatfooted on the turn for home. On Sunday, an even better Japanese filly with the imperiously masculine name of Cesario will test her mettle in an Oaks that includes six foreign invaders.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Do it again.
When Andujar won the Grade 2 Milady Breeders' Cup Handicap last month, she joined the list of the nation's top older fillies and mares.
But how far can she progress? Sunday's $300,000 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park can offer clues.
It's a long way to Tipperary. For two natives of Ireland, it's even longer to Inglewood. But trainers Eoin Harty and Paddy Gallagher, who both hail from the land of Eire, will square off in Sunday's Grade 1, $350,000 Triple Bend Invitational Handicap at Hollywood Park. They send out, respectively, , who head a wide-open field of 14 runners, all of whom are seeking their first Grade 1 victory.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Fast and Furious, the source of a year's worth of frustration and expectations for owner Arnold Zetcher and trainer Ron McAnally, may finally score his first stakes win in the United States in Sunday's $250,000 American Handicap at Hollywood Park.