ARCADIA, Calif. - The veteran gelding Macward has long been regarded as the ultimate horse-for-course on Santa Anita's downhill turf layout. But the 7-year-old has fallen into a tailspin. After winning 4 of his first 8 starts down the unique course, age has caught up. Macward has lost nine in a row on the hillside.
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DRF Past Performances
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Wait till next year.
That will have to do as the battle cry for Soaring Free and Perfect Soul, the only Woodbine-based performers in Saturday's Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita.
Soaring Free, owned by Sam-Son Farm and trained by Mark Frostad, and Perfect Soul, owned by Charles Fipke and trained by Roger Attfield, both competed in the Breeders' Cup Mile.
Soaring Free finished fifth, beaten 3 1/4 lengths, with Perfect Soul another 2 3/4 lengths back in ninth.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - The first thing trainer Brian Koriner did after claiming Tonco for $12,500 last April was try him on turf.
The result was a second-place finish in an allowance race that turned into a victory when Prairie Predator was disqualified. In three turf starts since, Tonco has two victories and a second to Pacifica Handicap winner Vallarta in his last start.
Tonco will try to continue his turf success when he meets five rivals in a $50,000 optional claimer at 1 1/8 miles in Thursday's Bay Meadows feature.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Fans will notice some unplanned changes to the track when Aqueduct opens its doors on Wednesday for its 44-day fall meet.
The New York Racing Association during the summer halted construction on a casino for 4,500 video lottery terminals in its grandstand because of a federal investigation of NYRA officials connected to the convictions of 19 mutuel tellers for income tax evasion and money laundering.
NEW YORK - Volponi, winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2002, has been retired from racing and will stand in 2004 at an undisclosed farm in Kentucky, trainer and part-owner P.G. Johnson said on Monday.
Volponi, by Cryptoclearance out of the Sir Harry Lewis mare Prom Knight, retires with a career record of 7 wins in 31 starts and $3.2 million in earnings. His biggest win was the 2002 Classic, in which he scored by a record 6 1/2 lengths at 43.50-1.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Bay Meadows heads into the final week of its fall season and ends with what could be one of the most interesting races of the meeting.
The Grade 3 Bay Meadows Derby will be run Saturday with eight 3-year-olds considered likely starters, including 119-pound highweight Urban King, winless but stakes-placed in five stakes for trainer Bobby Frankel. Also expected to run are two Neil Drysdale-trained horses, Mediator and Right Proof, both of whom will carry 115 pounds.
ALBANY, Calif. - The 2003-04 Golden Gate Fields meeting, which runs from Nov. 5 through April 4, has scheduled four fewer stakes races than last year and pushed back by a week one of the meeting's premier stakes races.
The Grade 3, $200,000 El Camino Real Derby, which has produced a number of Triple Crown and major stakes winners, among them Tabasco Cat, Charismatic, and Ten Most Wanted, has been pushed back from the first weekend in March to March 13.
Attendance and wagering records were set at the 17-day fall meet that ended Saturday at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky.
Handle from all sources totaled more than $112.7 million, surpassing the $106.3 million from last fall, when just 16 days were run. Per-day handle averaged $6,633,734, not including imported simulcasts or separate-pool handle. Total attendance was 232,382, which narrowly surpassed the previous record for a fall meet, set in 1988. Average attendance was 13,669.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - My Vintage Port will try to nail down the Sovereign Award as this year's champion 2-year-old filly Wednesday at Woodbine, when she seeks her third consecutive stakes score in the $133,125 South Ocean.
Sovereign contenders Blonde Executive and America America both bombed on Sunday, leaving the door wide open for My Vintage Port, who might not even need to win the 1 1/16-mile race in order to garner the award.