Tam's Terms picked up right where he left off 10 months ago as he remained unbeaten on the turf by scoring a 2 3/4-length victory over Glick in the $65,000 Henry S. Clark Stakes at Pimlico.
After winning just one of his first 10 career starts, the 5-year-old Tam's Terms ($9.80) is now 4 for 4 since he was switched to the grass last May by trainer Lawrence Murray.
Horses without much early speed are rarely successful when they try to cut back from a route to a sprint. Gimmeawink is an exception to that rule of thumb.
A non factor in his two most recent starts going two turns, Gimmeawink ($11) made the difficult transition from 1 1/8 miles to six furlongs in the $75,000 Francis "Jock" LaBelle Memorial Stakes for 3-year-olds at Delaware Park.
Ridden by Clinton Potts for trainer Tim Ritchey, Gimmeawink was sprinting for the first time since New Year's Day and he had not won at six furlongs since last November.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Trainer Bret Calhoun, who has been winning races at a rate of more than 35 percent during the first month of the Lone Star Park meet, has three horses under consideration for Saturday's Grade 3, $500,000 Lone Star Derby.
Calhoun's possibles for the 1 1/8-mile race that could draw the maximum 14 starters are Lone Star Deputy, Commander's Affair, and Iceanwater. All three last raced April 5 in the $100,000 Grand Prairie Turf Challenge, which was won by Lone Star Deputy.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Sunday, Belmont Park welcomed home Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide. Wednesday, it will welcome back New York's racing fans as the 55-day spring-summer meet gets under way with a nine-race card. First post is 1 p.m. Eastern.
With the New York-bred and-based Funny Cide winning Saturday's Kentucky Derby and the New York-based Bird Town taking Friday's Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs, there is already plenty of enthusiasm for the Belmont meet.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Talk about an embarrassment of riches.
Two days after winning the Kentucky Derby aboard Funny Cide, jockey Jose Santos was aboard his 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Volponi on Monday morning, guiding him through a half-mile workout in 47.80 seconds at Belmont Park.
"It can't get better than that,' Santos said, before catching a plane to south Florida, where he planned to surprise his kids by having dinner with them.
It actually can get better for Santos.
CALGARY, Alberta - Fancy As kept his local record unblemished in seven starts with a head victory in Saturday's $40,000 Stampede Park Sprint Championship. Under confident handling by Richard Hamel, Fancy As was up in the final strides to nail stablemate Tyko Tycoon, completing the six furlongs in 1:10.20.
Jockey Perry Winters had Tyko Tycoon on the lead throughout moderate fractions of 23 seconds and 45.80 over the fast surface.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Bay Meadows officials gambled a bit when they decided to maintain the $100,000 purse for Saturday's Ascot Handicap.
The gamble may have backfired.
Only 13 3-year-olds were nominated for the 1 1/16-mile turf race. Neither of the two highweights, Steelaninch, winner of La Puente at Santa Anita in his last start, and California Derby winner Mr. Technique, will start.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Turf racing resumes Wednesday at Hollywood Park after weekend rain forced four grass races, including the Inglewood Handicap, be switched to the main track Saturday and Sunday. Three grass races will be run Wednesday, including the seventh-race feature for fillies and mares at one mile.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Sure, there will be a crowd Wednesday at Churchill Downs - just 140,000-plus fewer people than what showed up the last time racing was held here.
The three-day break between the Kentucky Derby and the subsequent 45 days of racing at Churchill in the spring is something like the Grand Canyon, dividing the meet into two distinct parts. Casual fans overrun the track on Derby weekend, but then only about 5,000 or so are in attendance on a typical weekday, proud to represent the bread-and-butter on which racing relies so heavily.