HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Dynever worked a strong half-mile in 51 seconds at Payson Park on Monday morning and couldn't be doing better, according to trainer Christophe Clement. But despite all signs appearing favorable, Dynever's starting status for Saturday's $300,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap remains up in the air.
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DRF Past Performances
Fair Grounds dropped the curtain Sunday on its 2003-2004 season, the future of the track as unsettled as when the meet began on Thanksgiving. Numbers fell across the board from last season, and were a far cry from the heyday of the late 1990's, but handle declines have been subsumed by a greater concern - the very future of Fair Grounds.
Shane Sellers became the 42nd jockey to have 4,000 career victories after riding three winners at Fair Grounds on Sunday, closing day of the track's meet.
The milestone comes not long after the 37-year-old Sellers mulled permanent retirement. Late in 2000, a Frank Brothers-trained maiden unseated Sellers just after the post parade, and as Sellers tried to hang on to the reins, he twisted and badly hurt his knee. The injury forced Sellers to the sidelines, and while he focused on a fledgling career as a country music singer, his future as a jockey appeared uncertain.
Bolstered by across-the-board increases in attendance and handle, Oaklawn Park has increased overnight purses $1,500 a race, retroactive to Saturday. The track has also signed a new four-year contract with the Arkansas Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.
The contract, which runs from from Jan. 1, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2008, governs such issues as simulcasting and dates the stable area is open.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Evening Attire, one of the most consistent handicap horses in New York the last few years, will try to change his luck and win his first race since August when he runs in Saturday's $200,000 Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap at Aqueduct.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - With solid efforts in stakes in her last two starts, U K Trick lands in a good spot to earn her first stakes victory in Wednesday's $60,000-added Numbered Account at Aqueduct.
is among seven older fillies and mares entered in the 1 1/8-mile Numbered Account, for horses that have never won an open stakes.
The signature meet of Maryland's year-round racing schedule begins Wednesday when Pimlico launches its 48-day spring meet, featuring the $1 million Preakness Stakes on May 15.
The Preakness, the second leg of the Visa Triple Crown, is one of 26 stakes, worth a total of $3,825,000, to be run at the 10-week spring stand. Thirteen stakes, including all nine graded events to be run at the meet, are scheduled for Preakness week. The 13-race card on Preakness Day will include eight stakes.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Saint Liam looks to be sitting on a big season. An up-and-coming colt, he was a game second to Peace Rules in the controversial New Orleans Handicap, and will get a rematch with Peace Rules Saturday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap.
The race will share a card with the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom, and its list of probables grew to five on Monday when officials said Ole Faunty has joined the lineup, to be ridden by Mike Smith. The field is expected to be completed by Private Emblem and Sir Cherokee.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Happy, content horses win races, and Caviar Emptor has been thrilled with the bundle of joy that came into her life the first week of February. The new baby is not hers, but she is hosting a mother goat and her infant. The pair has found a home with Caviar Emptor, and the situation could translate into a strong performance from the filly in the featured ninth race Wednesday at Oaklawn Park.