ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Roger Attfield has been heating up at the meet with his turf runners, most recently with Art of Almost, who won a second-level optional claimer with determination last Sunday.
“She came out of it well,” Attfield said. “We’re in good shape.”
Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., will be allowed to admit spectators when the track opens its live meet July 3, but track officials are still awaiting guidance on limitations that will apply to attendance, the track’s top official said Tuesday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Grade 1 winner Come Dancing will return to sprinting and Belmont Park when she heads the field for Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Vagrancy Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs.
Come Dancing came off a 6 1/2-month layoff in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap at 1 1/16 miles around two turns at Oaklawn and finished 12th of 14.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Promises Fulfilled will make his 5-year-old debut in Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 True North Stakes at Belmont Park.
A five-time graded stakes winner, Promises Fulfilled has not run since finishing sixth as the 9-5 favorite in the Grade 2 Phoenix at Keeneland last October. Promises Fulfilled was brought back to race this year because his connections thought there would be ample opportunity to run for lucrative purses.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Twenty horses worked over the Belmont turf course during a little more than a half-hour span Sunday morning. Half of that group came from the barn of trainer Chad Brown, three of whom are expected to compete in graded stakes here Saturday, including Uni, who is slated to make her first start since winning the Breeders’ Cup Mile in the Grade 1 Just a Game.
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Santa Anita concluded a six-month winter-spring meeting Sunday – which was interrupted from late March to mid-May because of the coronavirus outbreak – without a clear indication of when racing would resume in September.
Track officials said Sunday that the start of the meeting could be delayed from its scheduled date of Sept. 11 to later in the month to provide a gap following the conclusion of the Del Mar summer season on Sept. 7.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A dozen fillies and mares have been entered for Wednesday’s $47,000 optional-claiming and allowance feature, carded at five furlongs on the turf for Florida-breds. The race also serves as the penultimate leg of the Rainbow 6, which offers a guaranteed jackpot of $350,000.
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The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc with stakes schedules throughout the country and could also ultimately impact the marquee event on Gulfstream Park’s summer program, the Summit of Speed, which features the Grade 2 Princess Rooney, a Win and You’re’ In race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.
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Wind of Change, who worked a bullet half-mile Sunday at Gulfstream Park, was among nine older horses entered the same morning in the $75,000 Lone Star Park Mile. The race highlights a card of three open-company stakes this coming Sunday.
Wind of Change breezed in 46.80 seconds, and the move was the fastest of 81 at the distance. He is shortening up from 1 1/8 miles. Wind of Change ran fifth at the trip in the $75,000 Sunday Silence on May 17 at Gulfstream. Before that race, he won an allowance at the track. Hector Berrios has the mount for trainer Amador Sanchez.
More Ice, who ran in last year’s Santa Anita Derby, returns to turf Wednesday for the fourth race at Louisiana Downs.
The optional $17,500 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up carries second-level allowance conditions. It will be run at about a mile on the grass. There are two other turf routes with similar conditions on the card, with one for fillies and mares and the other for horses bred in Louisiana.
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