PORTLAND, Ore. - Before Saturday's $10,000 Governor's Speed Handicap, trainer Steve Fisher said Star of Elttaes would have to be "pretty shiny" in the race to be considered for the $40,000 Portland Meadows Mile on April 10.
He was incandescent.
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Bob Baffert's Louisiana Derby winner Wimbledon will lead a field of seven 3-year-olds who have been entered for Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Santa Anita Derby to be run at 1 1/8 miles. Wimbledon drew post No. 3 and has been installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite with jockey Javier Santiago aboard.
Rock Hard Ten, who will be making his stakes debut for trainer Jason Orman, is listed as the 3-1 second-choice in the odds. Rock Hard Ten drew the six-hole and will be ridden by David Flores.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Kristin Mulhall grew up riding show horses, so she is used to clearing hurdles. And plenty have been placed before her, both real and perceived, since she decided to become a racehorse trainer.
She is just 21 - and was a mere 19 when she took out her trainer's license nearly two years ago - so she has had to fight the assumption that she is inexperienced. As a woman in a male-dominated world, particularly on the insular backstretch, she had to endure wolf-whistles and catcalls from stablehands. Even her family placed obstacles in her way.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The defection of front-runner Lion Heart from the Santa Anita Derby has weakened the pace scenario, which may force a change in strategy for longshot Lucky Pulpit. "Who's going to be on the lead?" Lucky Pulpit's trainer, Cliff Sise, asked, before answering his own question. "I might be in front, but I don't want to be in front."
ARCADIA, Calif. - Despite a combined record of 12 wins from 55 starts, Kedington and Quilimanque remain eligible to the first allowance condition. As such, the geldings present horseplayers with a dilemma in the seventh-race feature on Thursday at Santa Anita.
qualifies Thursday in his fifth start, though his speed figures place him at a disadvantage.
CHICAGO - It was last July 3 when a 2-year-old colt named Suave debuted in a six-furlong maiden race at Churchill Downs, and the reasons that he was in no way ready to win then are the same ones that have landed him a spot Saturday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Illinois Derby at Hawthorne.
Numerous Times and T J's Lucky Moon, who both won $1 million races at Woodbine then never won again, have been retired.
Numerous Times, a 7-year-old horse who won his sixth race in as many starts in the Grade 1 Atto Mile and then was voted Canada's champion turf horse of 2000, has been sold to Australian interests for stud duty.
T J's Lucky Moon, a 5-year-old gelding who won the 2002 Queen's Plate at 82-1, suffered a small tear in a suspensory ligament and will be pensioned on the Acton, Ontario, farm of his owner and breeder, Gino Molinaro.
Clyde Bramble, a longtime jockey and trainer who recently had been working as an exercise rider, underwent emergency surgery Tuesday in Cincinnati after nearly losing an arm in a training accident at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.
Bramble, 59, was airlifted to University Hospital in Cincinnati, where doctors attempted to reattach part of an arm that had been nearly severed in the accident. According to Valerie Leeke, Bramble's ex-wife, who is employed at River Downs, Bramble was heavily sedated Tuesday afternoon.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board on Tuesday approved a request by the New York Racing Association to cut its takeout on the pick six to 15 percent on non-carryover days.
The reduction, expected to take effect for the Thursday card at Aqueduct, will make NYRA's pick six the lowest-priced pick six in the country on non-carryover days. Takeout on carryover days will remain 25 percent.