HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The barn which houses horses for trainers Dale Romans, Scott Lake, and Gary Sciacca was placed under quarantine for the second time within the past week after two unidentified horses in the barn tested "suspicious" for strangles, Gulfstream Park president and general manager Scott Savin said Wednesday.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Dream of Summer has always stepped up to new challenges. She did not race until she was a 4-year-old, but won her debut. A few starts later, Dream of Summer began a five-race win streak, including her stakes debut in the Grade 2, $150,000 A Gleam Handicap.
Saturday, Dream of Summer will face the biggest challenge of her career when she takes on champion Ashado and Island Fashion in the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap.
River Downs in Cincinnati begins its 2005 racing season on Friday, and if the mood around the track these days is celebratory, it is quite understandable.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the track's opening, and despite numerous obstacles, River Downs remains alive and well. In its eight decades of existence, River Downs has survived floods, the Great Depression, ontrack business declines, and the onslaught of alternative gaming - forces that have spelled doom for other tracks.
Historians often refer to the 1920's as the Golden Age of sports, when such athletes as Babe Ruth, Red Grange, and Bill Tilden became household names. The legendary Man o' War and Exterminator were among Thoroughbred racing's superstars of that era, but more telling evidence of racing's growing popularity during the decade was a boom in racetrack construction.
NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - The 2005 Ohio racing season hits full stride Friday when meets open at both Thistledown here and River Downs in Cincinnati. Beulah Park in Grove City, Ohio, continues its winter meet through May 7.
The 187-day Thistledown racing season once again will be split into four meetings - Summit, Thistledown, Randall, and Cranwood.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - One year ago, it would have been folly to think about Bells Fool contending in allowance company.
But when night racing returns to Bay Meadows on Friday, the 5-year-old Bells Fool will be a major player in the feature race, a one-mile allowance.
His primary opposition will come from Lindero, the probable favorite, and speedy Tenth Street, who makes his first start around two turns.
Meteoric, coming off a close second in the Carmel Handicap, searches for his first Los Alamitos stakes win Friday when he is part of a deep and talented field in the Grade 3, $27,250 Kaweah Bar Handicap at 350 yards.
Meteoric closed strongly in the 350-yard Carmel on March 11, but came up a nose short of Pennants Chick, who is starting in the Miss Princess Handicap on Saturday night. While Meteoric has not won a stakes at Los Alamitos, he has strong Grade 1 credentials with seconds in the 2002 Los Alamitos Million and the 2004 Los Alamitos Winter Championship.
Going Wild came into the current Santa Anita meeting winless in three starts, with a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 72. Beginning on Dec. 26, though, he transformed into a legitimate Kentucky Derby contender for trainer D. Wayne Lukas by capturing three consecutive races before finishing second to Declan's Moon in the Santa Catalina Stakes.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Several horses scheduled to see stakes action this Saturday put in workouts Tuesday morning.
Galloping Grocer, who will bypass the Illinois Derby and remain in New York for the Wood Memorial, breezed a half-mile in 48.55 seconds on the training track at Belmont Park, the seventh-fastest of 38 workouts at the distance.
Rikman, a Wood nominee coming off an entry-level allowance win at 1 1/8 miles on Aqueduct's main track, also worked on the training track at Belmont. He went five furlongs in 1:00.14, the fourth-fastest of 19 at the distance.