SUNLAND PARK, N.M. - Steve Asmussen's uncoupled entry of City Sleeper and Dazzling Rubies, bet down to 3-5 and 7-2 respectively, were upset by Inox ($26.80) in the $50,000-added Bold Ego Handicap at Sunland Park. Inox, a 6-year-old mare, outfinished Gimme a Clue by a neck to win the 5 1/2-furlong race in 1:03.63.
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The Hall of Fame tandem of trainer Bill Mott and jockey Jerry Bailey, who have been easily the most dominant figures at Gulfstream in the past decade, teamed to win the final race of the opening-day card when Delmonico Cat stormed to victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Honey Fox Handicap.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Lack of experience, an interrupted work pattern, a bad start, and a wide trip could not derail A.P. Adventure from her mission of capturing Sunday's $106,800 at Santa Anita.
A.P. Adventure, in only her second start, successfully jumped from a maiden race to a Grade 3 stakes. She overhauled pacesetting Salty Romance with 100 yards to go and quickly drew clear to win by a widening 3 1/2 lengths. Salty Romance held on for second, a half-length in front of third-place Wildwood Flower.
NEW ORLEANS - Bunky Richards started training Golden Sonata about 10 days ago, and jockey Gerard Melancon was an eleventh-hour replacement. The timing was perfect. Golden Sonata scored her first stakes win Sunday at Fair Grounds, beating Spirited Maiden by a half-length in the $60,000 .
Spirited Maiden edged Whiletheiron'shot for second, while favored Ifyouprefersilver tired in the stretch and checked in seventh. Golden Sonata paid $16.20 to win, and ran one and one-sixteenth miles in 1:45.25.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is back at Gulfstream Park for the first time in 15 years while his go to rider, Richard Migliore, is spending the winter 1,200 miles away in New York. But the obvious logistical problem hasn't stopped the potent trainer-jockey combination from winning two graded stakes in the space of just eight days, their latest success coming on Sunday with Millennium Dragon in Gulfstream Park's Grade 3, $100,000 .
ARCADIA, Calif. - Only two tickets were able to isolate all six winners in Saturday's pick six at Santa Anita, and those tickets were each worth a whopping $760,851.80.
No one had hit the pick six the two previous days, leading to a carryover into Saturday's card of $536,394. A parade of longshots Saturday made nailing all six winners extremely challenging. There was only one winning favorite in the six races, and several short-priced favorites, including Olmodavor in the featured San Pasqual Handicap, were defeated.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Star Cross had the annoying habit of failing to turn left whenever he reached a turn, so late last year, trainer Darrell Vienna added an extension blinker to his equipment. It has turned him around.
Star Cross won a minor stakes race at Golden Gate Fields in November in his first start with the new equipment, and on Saturday at Santa Anita he earned the first graded stakes win of his career when he rallied to capture the Grade 2, $150,000 .
SUNLAND PARK, N. M. - Steve Asmussen's uncoupled entry of City Sleeper and Dazzling Rubies, bet down to 3-5 and 7-2 respectively, were upset by Inox ($26.80) in Saturday's $53,950 at Sunland Park.
Asmussen, who has a string on the grounds here for the first time, won six stakes last season with ship-ins and finished sixth in the overall standings. With only eighteen stalls for the current meet, Asmussen is dominating the standings with 19 wins from 66 starts, but strangely is now 0 for 6 in added money events despite running numerous heavy favorites.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Cajun Beat was the marquee name on Saturday's opening-day program for the 2004 Gulfstream Park season, and the Breeders' Cup Sprint winner did not disappoint, posting an easy 1 1/2-length victory over Gygistar in the $100,000 .
NEW ORLEANS - Last Wednesday was New Year's Eve Day, and the Fair Grounds track would be closed for training the next morning. There was more traffic here than on a Los Angeles freeway.
A total of 204 horses worked four or five furlongs the morning of the 31st, a startling number for a racetrack with a barn area the size of the Fair Grounds. The abundance of horses training at Fair Grounds seems to be translating to bigger fields.