Two horsed died Saturday morning at Belmont Park due to injuries suffered when the horses collided on the training track during training hours, according to several witnesses.
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Santa Anita on Saturday has carded two handicaps based on a newly created rating system instead of more traditional methods such as allowance race conditions or claiming levels.
Santa Anita is the first track in the nation to offer such races.
The ratings-based handicaps are the sixth and seventh races.
The sixth race, which has seven entrants, is a six-furlong sprint with a purse of $35,000 for horses rated 70 to 79. The purse compares to a $25,000 claiming race.
Rose’s Desert, a multiple stakes winner who as a broodmare has produced five stakes winners led by $12 million earner Senor Buscador, had a debut winner last weekend at Remington Park.
The Hell We Did was a neck winner of a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds. He is a son of Authentic who races for the same connections as Senor Buscador, who also won his debut at 2 at Remington.
The Hell We Did won over six furlongs under David Cabrera.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Orlando Quinones, a member of the New York Racing Association gate crew, was suspended one year by the New York State Gaming Commission for abusing a horse while attempting to school him at the starting gate during the Saratoga summer meet.
According to a commission ruling, Quinones, while attempting to load the unraced 2-year-old, Mr. Miracle, into the starting gate, “became aggressive with the horse and caused multiple visible injuries to the muzzle and bridge of the nose area of the animal.”
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The 2-year-old colts Renegade and Paladin, separated by a head in a one-mile maiden race at Aqueduct last Friday, are likely to meet again in the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen Stakes going 1 1/8 miles on Dec. 6, the trainers of both horses said.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mythical Man will be taking a sharp drop in class Wednesday when he runs in a starter allowance/optional $40,000 claiming race on an eight-race card at Aqueduct.
Typically dark on Wednesdays, Aqueduct is holding this card to make up for the cancellation of the Oct. 12 program due to a forecasted nor’easter. Seven of the eight races on Wednesday were part of that nine-race program.
Explora, winner of the Grade 2 Oak Leaf Stakes on Oct. 4 at Santa Anita, worked six furlongs in 1:13.20 on Monday at Santa Anita in advance of a scheduled start in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 31 at Del Mar.
Explora is likely to be favored in the BC Juvenile Fillies for trainer Bob Baffert, who also plans to start Bottle of Rouge in the 1 1/16-mile race. The winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante at seven furlongs on Sept. 6, Bottle of Rouge worked five furlongs in 59.40 seconds on Sunday at Santa Anita, the fastest of 75 recorded works at the distance.
A groom based at Del Mar during the summer has been suspended 10 years for possession of an electrical device in the stable area, according to a ruling published Sunday by Santa Anita stewards Grant Baker, Luis Jauregui, and Kim Sawyer.
Victor Donis was found in possession of the illegal device on July 25, according to the ruling. The 46-year-old groom, who worked for trainer Dean Pederson, found the device in the stable area “and decided to keep it,” according to a complaint filed by California Horse Racing Board investigators on Aug. 30.
Multiple stakes winners Alpha Bella and Express Train have been retired after losses in recent graded stakes, their trainers said Sunday.
Express Train won 7 of 28 starts and earned $1,640,300 for Lee and Susan Searing’s CRK Stable and trainer John Shirreffs. Shirreffs said that Express Train is scheduled to be sent to Kentucky, where the 8-year-old will be retrained under the supervision of Jen Roytz.
“He’ll retire,” Shirreffs said. “He’s done enough for us. I’d love to see him become a hunter-jumper.”
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Three handicap races proposed for Friday’s program at Santa Anita based on a recently created rating system failed to draw sufficient interest when entries were taken Sunday.
Three ratings-based races will be offered for Saturday’s program, with slightly different conditions for two races. Track officials said ratings-based races will be offered for Sunday’s final day of the track’s autumn meeting. Entries for those days were scheduled to be taken on Monday and Tuesday.
Santa Anita is the first track in the nation to offer handicap races based on ratings.