GROVE CITY, Ohio - Ten Ohio-bred 2-year-old fillies, all searching for their initial stakes score, meet in the $40,000 Glacial Princess Stakes at Beulah Park.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Many of Kentucky's best mares have already gone south for the winter to warm-weather tracks such as Gulfstream Park in Florida and Fair Grounds in Louisiana. Yet some top mares still remain, and a sampling of those will race in Saturday's $50,000 Holiday Inaugural Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.
ALBANY, Calif. - Win or lose, the 10-year-old gelding Today a Star could always be counted on to give his best on the racetrack. And because he has so much heart, he became one of northern California's most popular horses.
The will and determination that made Today a Star special on the track may have helped save his life after he suffered a condylar fracture of his right foreleg while pulling up from a four-furlong work on July 19. The fracture was so bad that bone protruded through the skin of the leg.
HOUSTON - When the fields for the inaugural Great State Challenge were drawn on Wednesday, only 49 of the 84 horses invited to compete in the six-race series were entered. The Juvenile and Turf drew the largest fields, with 10 entrants each, while the Distaff and Classic attracted the smallest, with six each.
Overall, 10 states will be represented in the series, which is to be held at Sam Houston Race Park on Saturday. Kentucky has the most horses in the Great State Challenge with 11, followed by Texas and Maryland with eight. All of the races are worth $275,000.
HOUSTON - When someone in the racing game says, "Let's give this a try," it seems that Richard Englander is one of the first to say, "Count me in."
Indeed, during the first four runnings of the Claiming Crown, that made-for-everyman series, no owner has had a higher profile than Englander. Now comes another inventive concept, one that Englander also has been quick to embrace: the Great State Challenge, a made-for-statebreds series that makes its debut Saturday afternoon at Sam Houston Race Park.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Men's Exclusive seems more like a family pet than a racehorse to Wesley Ward. Having a horse in the barn for more than seven years can have that effect on a trainer.
"He's a horse that can almost talk to you when he's really right or off," Ward said. "When you get to know a horse, you know when he's coming up to it right."
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Though trainer John Kimmel usually takes his best stock to south Florida for the winter, he has left enough talented horses in New York to win at a 31-percent clip over the last two inner track meets.
With a large stable, Kimmel is able to reload his New York barn with horses who spent the summer racing competitively in New Jersey or Delaware. Mister Blues is a case in point.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - After chasing some of the nation's top 3-year-old fillies earlier this year, Ile de France is appearing against more realistic opposition this fall.
Following sixth-place finishes in the Kentucky Oaks and Hollywood Oaks in the spring, Ile de France was given a break. She returned to finish second in an allowance race at Santa Anita on Oct. 19.
On Friday, 3-year-old Ile de France starts as the favorite in a $45,000 allowance race for fillies over 1 1/16 miles at Hollywood Park.
NEW ORLEANS - It was a year ago at Fair Grounds that trainer Alvin Sider and owner C & R Stable plunked down $7,500 to claim Storybook Kid, who had raced eight times in his career with little distinction.
Storybook Kid proved to be an iron horse, and since the claim he has made 17 starts. More importantly, he's good. Storybook Kid has won six races and well over $100,000 for these low-profile connections, and he returns to Fair Grounds with an excellent chance to win Friday's featured race, a third-level turf allowance with a $75,000 claiming option.