Imma Bling will attempt to turn the tables on Oil Money when the multiple stakes winners meet in Thursday night’s eighth race at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La.
The pair will clash at five furlongs on the main track in a conditioned allowance race with a $25,000 claiming option for 3-year-olds and up. A field of seven is set to start, including stakes winner Win Lion Win.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tiz the Law, winner of the Belmont Stakes, closed as a solid favorite when Pool 5 of the 2020 Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday.
Tiz the Law closed at 2-1, followed by Honor A. P. at 6-1, and the mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, at 8-1. Then came Authentic (11-1), Uncle Chuck (13-1), Cafe Pharoah (14-1), Cezanne (19-1), Art Collector (20-1), and Dr Post (20-1).
Prominent California trainer John Sadler has been fined $15,000 and suspended 15 days from Monday through July 13 as part of a stipulated agreement with the California Horse Racing Board after three of his runners tested positive for prohibited medications in the spring of 2019.
Sadler was suspended 60 days, but 45 days of the suspension – from July 14-Aug. 29 are stayed, provided Sadler does not have any violations for medications in Classes 1, 2, or 3 through June 28, 2021.
Galilean, winner of the $101,500 Soi Phet Stakes for California-breds on dirt Saturday at Los Alamitos, could have his turf debut at Del Mar, if he remains in the statebred division.
Terry Finley, the founder and chief executive of West Point Thoroughbreds that co-owns Galilean, said Sunday that no decisions have been made on Galilean’s plans for the Del Mar summer meeting.
Two options are the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on dirt on July 18 or the $125,000 California Dreamin’ Stakes for statebreds at 1 1/16 miles on turf July 26.
The Southern California simulcasting network is slowly resuming business after being forced to close earlier this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hollywood Park’s satellite facility resumed simulcasting on June 22, while Santa Anita reopened Friday. Los Alamitos announced Saturday that it will reopen for simulcasting on July 6, but only for daytime racing.
Maximum Security had his fifth workout of June on Saturday at Santa Anita, moving closer to his first start for trainer Bob Baffert and first start since a win in the $20 million Saudi Cup on Feb. 29 in Saudi Arabia.
Maximum Security, the champion 3-year-old male of 2019, worked six furlongs in 1:12.40, his second consecutive six-furlong workout.
Sunday, Baffert did not specify a race goal for Maximum Security, but said the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on July 18 at Del Mar is a “possibility.”
“He’ll be nominated everywhere,” Baffert said.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Vancouver invasion began successfully last Saturday when perennial leading Hastings trainer Phil Hall won his first Woodbine race with Saltini.
The Hastings sensation Infinite Patience is expected to put her unbeaten record on the line in her season opener in Sunday’s $125,000 Fury Stakes, a seven-furlong event for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Bill Mott is expected to have horses in all five graded stakes next Saturday at Belmont Park, including Tacitus and Frank’s Rockette, who on Sunday put in a sharp half-mile workout over the Belmont main track in preparation for their engagements.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association and the New York State Gaming Commission have lifted a precautionary quarantine placed on Barn 37 at Belmont Park after tests on a horse suspected of having a case equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) tested negative for the disease, it was announced Sunday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Victim of Love got a bad trip Saturday. Fortunately for trainer Todd Beattie, the traffic issues occurred that evening on the van trip from Belmont Park back to his barn at Penn National and not during the running of the Grade 3 Vagrancy, which Victim of Love won at odds of 27-1 in a race run during a driving rainstorm.
