ELMONT, N.Y. – Eliade won a second-level allowance at Keeneland on Thursday for trainer Chad Brown and could make her next start in the Grade 3, $100,000 Long Island Handicap at Aqueduct on Nov. 28.
It was Eliade’s first win since coming to the U.S. and Brown’s stable after traveling from France last year.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – After originally planning to run Sistercharlie in Saturday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Flower Bowl at Belmont Park, trainer Chad Brown called an audible and has decided just to train the 6-year-old mare up to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland on Nov. 7.
Brown felt running in the Flower Bowl and then coming back in four weeks might be too much for the seven-time Grade 1 winner, who has finished third in both of her starts in 2020.
Sharp Samurai will make his next start in a Breeders’ Cup race on Nov. 7 at Keeneland, but a decision on whether the five-time stakes winner runs in the BC Mile on turf or the Dirt Mile has yet to be finalized.
“Everything is on the table,” trainer Mark Glatt said Thursday.
Regular workouts and maintaining fitness are the focus with the stakes-winning fillies Ce Ce and Speech in coming weeks. Specific race plans may not be determined until early November.
Friday at Santa Anita, Ce Ce and Speech worked five furlongs in company for scheduled starts in Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 7 at Keeneland. Both are likely to be cross-entered in the Distaff at 1 1/8 miles and the Filly and Mare Sprint at seven furlongs, trainer Michael McCarthy said.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Saffie Joseph Jr., the leading trainer at the Gulfstream Park spring-summer meet, has been on hand at Keeneland all week after traveling to Baltimore to saddle Ny Traffic for a ninth-place finish in the Preakness.
Ny Traffic is “already back at my barn at Gulfstream,” Joseph said. “He’s going to get a break before we get him ready for a 4-year-old campaign.”
Going forward, Joseph said he intends to have a presence at the major meets on this circuit. Through Thursday, he’s 4 for 18 with his Kentucky starters since Sept. 1.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – No doubt that Aunt Pearl went fast in smashing the Jessamine stakes record Wednesday when getting 1 1/16 miles on turf in 1:40.86, but it must be noted the swift clocking followed an unprecedented 216-foot run-up before official timing of the race began.
Partly as a result, and at the behest of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, Keeneland has begun publishing the run-ups for all races every race morning on its website, keeneland.com, effective Friday, according to Bob Elliston, Keeneland vice president of racing.
Churchill Downs has begun selling a limited number of tickets for its upcoming fall meet that begins in late October, according to an official with the company.
The tickets are being made available through the track’s website and at internet brokerage sites, according to Darren Rogers, the track’s vice president of communications. Churchill has not yet allowed spectators on-track this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, including at its re-scheduled Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Art Collector is back in training following a disappointing run in the Preakness as trainer Tommy Drury ponders a suitable next spot for a colt who incurred his first defeat as a 3-year-old when finishing fourth last Saturday in the final leg of the 2020 Triple Crown.
Drury said the Nov. 7 Breeders’ Cup Classic or BC Dirt Mile are the logical choices for a next race, although he also will consider waiting for the Nov. 27 Clark at Churchill Downs, depending on how the colt trains in the coming days and weeks.
Big Runnuer, who won his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes on Sept. 25 at Santa Anita, worked a half-mile in 49 seconds on Thursday in preparation for an expected start in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 7 at Keeneland.
The first weekend of October was a true homecoming for jockey Tyler Baze. Baze rode three winners at Santa Anita on his second weekend of riding in California after spending most of the year based in the Midwest.
More importantly, his wife and three children returned to their home near the racetrack after spending nearly a month with family in Southern California because of a massive wildfire in the mountains near Santa Anita. The children range in age from 3 to 6.
It was family that lured Baze back to California last month.
