A top-flight showdown between Grade 1 winners Rushing Fall and Got Stormy is set for Wednesday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Beaugay Stakes, the opening-day feature at Belmont Park.
Only six fillies and mares were entered in the Beaugay, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf. It will go as race 9 on a 10-race card that starts at 1:15 p.m.
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Santa will allow 50 horse owners to view workouts from the track’s clubhouse each morning.
Each owner is entitled to bring one guest to watch workouts, which run from 6 to 10 a.m.
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Trainers must make reservations on behalf of owners at least a day before a scheduled workout. Priority will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis to owners with horses who have been registered to work.
Anneau d’Or, winless in three races, all graded stakes, since a narrow loss in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last November, will start in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on June 6, trainer Blaine Wright said earlier this week.
Anneau d’Or was considered a candidate for the Santa Anita Derby on its original date of April 4, but the race was postponed when the track was ordered closed in late March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Santa Anita reopened on May 15.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The Grade 1 Carter Handicap, moved from Aqueduct to the Belmont meet and scheduled for June 6, has been designated a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Nov. 7 at Keeneland.
The Carter, run at seven furlongs, was originally scheduled for April 4 at Aqueduct, but was postponed when that track’s spring meet was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – When last seen in New York, Sadler’s Joy won the Grade 3 Red Smith Stakes at Aqueduct, ending a 10-race losing streak.
The 7-year-old Sadler’s Joy, winner of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer in 2017, is back in New York where next Thursday he will run in the $80,000 Tiller Stakes at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Belmont Park.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Though Rushing Fall certainly has a résumé that would make her extremely valuable as a broodmare, owner Bob Edwards said it was a simple decision to bring the four-time Grade 1-winning mare back for a 5-year-old campaign.
“Because horse racing’s fun,” Edwards said Thursday from Florida. “Had I known we were going to have a pandemic it might have been a different story, but I love racing. That’s why we kept her.”
Del Mar will open a week earlier than originally scheduled and race three days a week – without spectators – through the summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, the track announced in a statement early Thursday.
Opening day has been moved forward to July 10 from July 18, and racing will be held on a Friday-through-Sunday basis instead of the original plan of racing largely on a Wednesday-through-Sunday basis. The season will conclude on Labor Day, Sept. 7.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario said in a Wednesday release that an outbreak of equine herpesvirus (EHV-1) on the Woodbine backstretch appears to be contained.
“The mitigation strategies that have been put in place appear to be working, and the retesting efforts will confirm this status,” the release said. “The AGCO is continuing to monitor the situation closely, and new significant developments will be reported in upcoming notices.”
The positive cases have been limited to Barn 12, and a single horse in Barn 10.
