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.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Graham Motion may have found his Diana horse in Mean Mary.
Mean Mary recorded her fourth consecutive victory by taking Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 New York Stakes by 5 1/4 lengths. After getting away with a relatively easy pace, she powered home her last quarter in 22.64 seconds under Luis Saez. She earned a career-best 101 Beyer Speed Figure.
“She just galloped them into the ground,” Motion said. “She really has a high cruising speed. It looked kind of effortless for her.”
ELMONT, N.Y. - Barn 37 at Belmont Park was placed under a precautionary quarantine on Saturday by officials at the New York Racing Association and the New York State Gaming Association due to a suspected case of equine herpesvirus-1 in that barn.
Freudnme, a 4-year-old colt trained by Chris Englehart, developed a fever and neurological symptoms on Saturday morning and has started treatment under the care of a private veterinarian, according to NYRA officials.
The Maryland Racing Commission on Thursday informed officials with Laurel Park that the track cannot write races for 2-year-olds that would prohibit the raceday administration of furosemide without a change to existing regulations, according to officials who participated in the meeting, which was conducted via teleconference.
The 2-year-old season is in full swing at Gulfstream Park, with most local trainers having an eye squarely on the Florida Sire Series, which kicks off on Aug. 1 with the $100,000 Dr. Fager and Desert Vixen Stakes at six furlongs.
But some, like Antonio Sano, have loftier goals in mind, and are already making travel plans for Saratoga later this summer.
Sano has sent out four juveniles to break their maidens during the current session, including Papetu and Hara, who registered impressive maiden wins just 24 hours apart last week.
Keeper Ofthe Stars, who finished last of five in the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes on June 20 at Santa Anita after winning the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes there May 25, may start at the end of the Del Mar summer meeting.
Trainer Jonathan Wong said he is considering the Grade 2 John Mabee Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Sept. 5.
“That’s one of the options,” Wong said. “We’ll freshen her up and run her at Del Mar.”
In the Wilshire Stakes at a mile on turf, Keeper Ofthe Stars was second early but faded from contention to finish 5 3/4 lengths behind Toinette.
Tizamagician, fourth in the Grade 3 Robert Lewis Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita in February, is a candidate for the $100,000 Runhappy Oceanside Stakes on July 10 at Del Mar.
Friday at Santa Anita, Tizamagician worked five furlongs in 1:00 in a tune-up for the Oceanside, which is run at a mile on turf for 3-year-olds.
Roy H, the champion sprinter of 2017 and 2018, has been retired and will have a second career as a stable pony, trainer Peter Miller said in a statement issued Thursday.
Roy H, 8, was in training in recent weeks when the decision was made to end his racing career. A gelding best known for winning the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar in 2017 and at Churchill Downs in 2018, Roy H won 10 of 23 starts and earned $3,139,765.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Celtic Striker, who won a match race in Thursday’s Easy Goer Stakes by 19 3/4 lengths over Sonneman, will target the Grade 3, $100,000 Peter Pan Stakes on July 16, opening day of the Saratoga meet.
The Peter Pan has typically been run in early May for 3-year-olds to use as a prep for the Belmont Stakes on the first Saturday in June. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Belmont was run June 20 and the Peter Pan could now be used as a prep for the Grade 1 Travers on Aug. 8.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Sir Winston, Tacitus, and Joevia, the top three-finishers from the 2019 Belmont Stakes, are all targeting next Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park.
On Friday, Sir Winston worked an easy half-mile in 50.90 seconds over the Belmont Park main track. Sir Winston is coming off a second-place finish behind Moretti in the Flat Out Stakes here on June 11.
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