NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - The Grade 2, $300,000 Ohio Derby has been moved back to its traditional mid-July date after being run on Sept. 29 last year. The Ohio Derby drew only six starters last year, prompting it to be moved to July 20 this year.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Parting is out for revenge. She finished second at 1-5 last month in a division of the $122,500 Texas Stallion Stakes, and she returns Sunday in the $100,000 Silver Spur Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park.
Parting won her first career start, June 3, by 12 lengths, earning an 84 Beyer Speed Figure. She made her stakes debut one race later in the Texas Stallion Stakes, and went out quickly in the 5 1/2-furlong race. She ran the opening quarter in 21.76 seconds before being overtaken in the stretch by Tiffany Jennifer.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Your Illinois-bred gets a maiden race and two allowance conditions, then it's out of statebred company and into the big, scary world of open racing. It's a tough jump for a horse to make, and he needs a little luck to do it.
But how much luck does has trainer Christine Janks have left?
She used much of it Sunday, when Janks won three times in the first five races.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Purses at Hastings Park are expected to jump by roughly 10 percent in the near future. One reason for the increase is that business has been good since the Woodbine Entertainment Group took over the track on May 1. The per-race average handle on live racing has increased by around 20 percent, and while attendance figures haven't been kept since free admission was introduced, it is clear that many more people are attending the races and the mood at the track is buoyant.
Another reason for the increase is more than $2 million in "found money."
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Friday night's $6,500 James Leakos Sophomore is a lopsided affair: Royal Brittany takes on five apparently overmatched foes in the one-mile stakes for Saskatchewan-bred 3-year-old fillies.
Sporting two wins and four seconds from six lifetime starts, Royal Brittany towers over her opponents, who total just three wins from 25 combined appearances.
Royal Brittany, owned by Ed, Don, and Ken Heuchert, won both the Saskatchewan Futurity for fillies and the Larry Lashyn Futurity last year.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Anglian Prince was back on the work tab Wednesday, going six furlongs in 1:14 under exercise rider Oneil Walcott on the fast main track.
"It was a nice, comfortable work," said trainer Mort Hardy, who is pointing Anglian Prince to the July 21 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie. The $500,000 Prince of Wales, a 1 3/16-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, is the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
MIAMI - Caller One, one of the premier sprinters in the world, fractured a sesamoid in his right front leg during a workout at Belmont on Tuesday and will likely be retired.
was scheduled to be the 123-pound highweight for Saturday's $400,000 Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder.
"He was working a half-mile for the race on Saturday," said James Chapman Sr., whose son James Jr. trains Caller One. "The exercise rider said coming through the lane he felt him take a misstep when he went to change leads, although he completed the work and seemed to walk back to the barn okay."
CHICAGO - Jerry Hollendorfer has us all going around in circles.
Last Sunday, Hollendorfer surprisingly had the promising colt Trickey Trevor in a $35,000 claiming race, though he eventually scratched him in favor of Kool Kool, who won easily and was claimed. Wednesday, Trickey Trevor is in again, this time in a strong second-level sprint allowance for 3-year-olds, the seventh of nine races at Arlington.
When you're speaking about 1 1/8 miles on the turf, you're talking I'm All Yours's game.
I'm All Yours has won five of his seven races at nine furlongs on turf, and he has a good shot at another such win in Thursday's eight race at Belmont Park, a $56,000 allowance. Nine 4-year-olds and up were entered for the race, to be run on the inner turf course, including two for the main track only.