NEW YORK - Is Bank Audit sharp enough to overcome a class rise and a tough outside post? That question will be answered in the competitive eighth race at Aqueduct on Thursday. The nonwinners-of-three-other-than allowance for fillies and mares has an optional claiming price of $65,000 and features several hard-hitting performers.
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ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Lloyd Mason hopes his talented 2-year-old filly Crisane will alter her performance pattern when she meets five rivals, including stablemate Lovin Glory, in Thursday's Golden Gate Fields feature, a $62,500 optional claiming sprint at six furlongs.
won her debut, her third start, and her fifth start. This is her sixth start, and Mason hopes she can finally record back-to-back victories.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Alphabet Kisses, the third longest shot in a field of 10, scored the biggest win of her brief career in Monday's $250,000 at Santa Anita.
The victory was not easy for the California-bred filly. Alphabet Kisses ($42.20) led for the first quarter-mile in 22.28 seconds, trailed Elusive Diva by a head after a half-mile in 44.58 seconds, but retook the lead and won by a length.
Ridden by Mike Smith, Alphabet Kisses finished seven furlongs in 1:21.38. The victory in the Grade 1 La Brea marked the graded stakes debut of Alphabet Kisses.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita launched its winter-spring meeting on Sunday with the largest ontrack audience since 1999, booming handle, and an enthusiastic crowd celebrating what has become an added holiday for racing fans.
On a cool, overcast day, a crowd of 31,874 contributed to an all-sources handle of $15,769,125. The figures marked respective increases of 13 percent and 3 percent over the corresponding day last year.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Richard Mandella saw the best and worst of his top 3-year-olds on Sunday's opening-day card at Santa Anita.
Action This Day, the champion 2-year-old male of 2003, left Mandella baffled after a dull ninth as the favorite in a one-mile allowance race on turf.
Conversely, Mandella can expect a top season in 2005 from Rock Hard Ten, who scored an impressive win in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes over seven furlongs.
The diverse results left Mandella plotting the futures of the two colts on Monday.
ARCADIA, Calif. - After opening the meet with a pair of Grade 1 stakes, Santa Anita on Wednesday returns with a less glamorous card, but one that could unveil future stakes stars. A pair of allowance races, which go as the sixth and seventh races, feature lightly raced runners who could be headed to stakes competition soon after the new year.
MIAMI - Second of June did about everything trainer Bill Cesare could have hoped for when he returned from a 10-month layoff in Monday's - everything but win.
Making his first start since finishing second in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes on Feb. 14, Second of June was beaten a neck by the older, more experienced Smooth Lover after briefly overtaking the pacesetter between calls at midstretch in his 3-year-old finale.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Following a nine-day holiday hiatus, racing returns to Aqueduct on Wednesday with a pick-six carryover of $37,112 and the $75,000 Gallant Fox Handicap at 1 5/8 miles over the inner track.
The Gallant Fox, which drew a field of nine, will go as race eight on the nine-race card and will be the penultimate leg of the pick six.
Trainer Bruce Levine has won four of the last six runnings of the Gallant Fox - three times with Coyote Lakes and once with Aavelord. On Wednesday, he'll send out Hydrogen, one of the few in the field proven at marathon distances.
STICKNEY, Ill. - This is no country for racehorses. At frozen Hawthorne in December, the tiny pellets of winterized racing surface fly back from hooves to sting faces of horses and riders alike. The horses who don't get pelted are the ones who tend to win. "Inside speed," the bettors mutter, huddled inside the grandstand.