ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown sent out an arsenal of graded stakes winners for workouts over the Belmont turf course Sunday as they prepare for upcoming stakes. Many have the Breeders’ Cup as their ultimate destination.
Rushing Fall, the six-time Grade 1-winning mare, and Uni, the champion female turf horse of 2019, led the procession of 14 horses, breezing five furlongs together in 1:00.78, in tandem through a final quarter in 23.21 seconds.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Josie Carroll said a decision has yet to be made regarding whether Larry Cordes’ blowout Queen’s Plate winner Mighty Heart will run back in the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on the dirt at Fort Erie on Sept. 29.
Mighty Heart rode a speed bias to a 7 1/2-length score under Daisuke Fukumoto in the Sept. 12 Queen’s Plate. His 1 1/4-mile time of 2:01.98 was the fastest Plate in the synthetic era at Woodbine, and the one-eyed homebred earned a big 99 Beyer Speed Figure.
Befitting a top sprinter, the three-time stakes winner Collusion Illusion had one of the fastest half-mile workouts at Santa Anita on a busy Sunday morning.
The 3-year-old colt is approaching the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Sept. 27 in excellent form despite a disrupted training schedule in recent weeks, trainer Mark Glatt said.
Sharp Samurai, second in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic on Aug. 22, worked a quick half-mile in 47.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Saturday, moving closer to a start in an important turf stakes.
Sharp Samurai is under consideration for two races on Oct. 3 - the Grade 1 Shadwell Mile on turf at Keeneland or the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile on turf at Santa Anita, said co-owner Tim Cohen on Saturday. Cohen said in a text message that Sharp Samurai is unlikely to run in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on dirt at Santa Anita on Sept. 26. Sharp Samurai is trained by Mark Glatt.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Authentic was sent through his first breeze on Saturday since winning the Kentucky Derby, going five furlongs in 59.20 seconds at a chilly Churchill Downs.
With his Hall of Fame trainer, Bob Baffert, watching frontside, Authentic was ridden by Martin Garcia when working over a fast track shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern. According to Churchill clocker John Nichols, the Into Mischief colt went in splits of 23.80 and 35.40 before proceeding in out times of 1:12.20 and 1:25.20.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Funny Guy this weekend is expected to have his second workout back from his fourth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga, and could make his next start in the Grade 2, $150,000 Kelso Handicap here Oct. 3, trainer John Terranova said this week.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – In a perfect world, Tiz the Law, the Kentucky Derby runner-up, would likely have breezed this weekend toward a potential start in the Preakness.
In the real world, Tiz the Law has been slow to bounce back from the Derby and is not expected to breeze until mid-week at the earliest, trainer Barclay Tagg said Friday.
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Los Alamitos reopened for limited daytime simulcasting earlier this month.
The track has limited access to outdoor areas, notably the grandstand apron and outside of the mezzanine level on a daily basis, and the patio and terrace of the Vessels club from Thursdays through Sundays. Additional televisions and self-service machines have been added to the Vessels club to accommodate demand.
Larry Collmus will call the races at the Del Mar autumn meeting, continuing as a replacement for Trevor Denman who is taking this year off because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The track made the announcement in a statement on Friday morning.
It has taken a bit of commuting on Southern California freeways to prepare the promising colt Waspirant for his stakes debut in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes on Sept. 26 at Santa Anita.
Trained by John Shirreffs, Waspirant won his second start in a maiden special weight race at a mile on Aug. 29 at Del Mar. Waspirant had a half-mile workout on Sept. 8 at Del Mar, the day after the track’s summer meeting concluded. He was shipped to Santa Anita a few days later with the rest of the Shirreffs stable.
