Fri, 06/11/2004 - 00:00

Hollywood Park carryover at $100,531

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The pick six at Hollywood Park on Friday includes a carryover of $100,531 from Thursday's program.

The carryover was largely created when Poker Money ($76.40) pulled an upset in Thursday's eighth race.

Friday's program begins at 7:05 p.m.The pick six covers the third through eighth races.

Here is a glance at the changes from Thursday's scratch time for Friday's program.

There are no changes in the third through fifth races.

The third race is run over 1 1-16 miles on turf for maidens. K'Ehleyr is the 8-5 choice on the morning-line.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Foster the cure for what ails

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Midway Road, Southern Image (above), and Peace Rules top an outstanding field set to run in the Grade 1, $750,000 Stephen Foster Handicap on a blockbuster card Saturday at Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Suffering for a week from a Smarty Jones hangover, racing fans are still scraping themselves up off the floor and asking where they should turn for solace. The answer is elusive - although many will simply throw themselves right back into a familiar routine, one that revolves around betting on racehorses.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Limehouse class of Ohio Derby

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Limehouse is not only the most accomplished runner in Saturday's $350,000 Ohio Derby, but he should also be suited by the expected quick pace of the 1 1/8-mile race.

A son of Grand Slam owned by Dogwood stable, Limehouse has competed in stakes in nine of his 10 career starts. He has won five times, including the Grade 2 Hutcheson and Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby this year and the Grade 3 Bashford Manor as a 2-year-old.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Dynever gives it another go

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Christophe Clement says he hopes sore feet were the cause of Dynever's loss as the favorite in last month's Grade 1 Pimlico Special. Clement's theory will be put to the test in the $250,000 Brooklyn Handicap, where Dynever once again is the likely favorite.

"He looks good, is training well, so let's go," said Clement, who trains Dynever for New York Racing Association vice chairman Peter Karches and Catherine Wills.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Continuously right there

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Continuously was left behind in California when trainer Bobby Frankel sent most of his top horses to New York last month.

The decision may lead to Continuously winning his second Grade 1 stakes in the last eight months when he starts in a wide-open $350,000 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap at Hollywood Park on Saturday.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Frankel sure his speed rules

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel is looking at the Stephen Foster Handicap in a very straightforward manner. As the trainer of Peace Rules, Frankel believes that any discussion about an excessive amount of speed in the Foster is probably overblown.

"I think my horse is faster than they are," Frankel said Thursday from New York.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Bare Necessities faces familiar rival

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Last year Bare Necessities logged the miles with cross-country plane travel, shipping from the West Coast to win stakes at Hawthorne in Chicago and Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky.

This summer her travels may come mostly by van. Owner George Middleton of Iron County Farms recently transferred her from Southern California-based trainer Wally Dollase to Chicago-based trainer Frank Kirby.

Saturday she makes her first start for Kirby when she faces Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Adoration in the Grade 2, $400,000 Fleur De Lis Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Foster Day has become a stakes spectacle

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Somewhere along the way, racetracks took a hard look at their most prestigious stakes races and began molding them into an entirely new concept. The results were multirace, festival-themed programs that attempted to capitalize on the idea that more is better and racing fans can never be given too much of a good thing.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Funny Cide in Mass Cap - if things go right

EAST BOSTON, Mass. - When Suffolk Downs management decided to move the Massachusetts Handicap from Memorial Day weekend to next Saturday, they were hoping to bring the race back from a one-year hiatus with a bang. It would appear they have succeeded, with word that last year's Derby and Preakness winner, Funny Cide, is pointing to the race.

Thu, 06/10/2004 - 00:00

Lucifer's Stone tries to keep rolling

ELMONT, N.Y. - Lucifer's Stone, undefeated in three starts this year, including two stakes, will try to win her first New York stakes in Sunday's $100,000 Sands Point on the turf at Belmont Park.