ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The plans of a couple of prominent Queen's Plate hopefuls were put on hold here Sunday when the card was canceled just before the running of the sixth race.
Streakin Rob and Barbeau Ruckus, both stakes winners at 2, were among the seven contestants for the sixth race, a mile and 70-yard allowance, which was a prep for the May 18 Marine Stakes. The field was in the paddock when the decision to cancel was announced.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Jockey Anthony Lovato has a knack for winning races in bunches. Saturday at Lone Star Park Lovato won four races, including the Grade 3, $300,000 Texas Mile with Unrullah Bull.
Lovato had another big day a month ago at Oaklawn Park when he won five races on March 29, including the $50,000 Hot Springs Stakes with Beau's Town. And last year, Lovato bagged six wins on a single card at Lone Star on July 3, his biggest win coming aboard Royal Spy in the $125,000 Grand Prairie Turf Challenge.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - If you want to catch the feature race at Bay Meadows on Wednesday, get there early.
The day's feature will be run as the first race on the eight-race card. It's a $40,000 optional claimer at six furlongs for 3-year-old fillies.
It is the feature because it is the best race of the day. The reason that it will run as the first race is because only five were entered, and in today's world of racing, with exotics on every race, field size is extremely important in race placement.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - After several mornings of relative inactivity, with the majority of the Kentucky Derby contenders stabled on the grounds doing little more than gallop and visit the paddock since the middle of last week, Monday was full of action. Ten Derby hopefuls worked, and four of those works coming within a wild three-minute span following the renovation break.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - , winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Eclipse Award for top 2-year-old filly last year for Godolphin Racing, was euthanized late Sunday after developing colitis, then laminitis.
Tom Albertrani, assistant to trainer Saeed bin Suroor, said Tempera had been stricken with a fever Friday and was transported the next day to Hagyard-Davidson-McGee equine clinic in Lexington. The filly's condition deteriorated through the weekend, and the decision was made late Sunday by Dr. Doug Byars to end her life.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. ? Although form prevailed in most of the California Gold Rush stakes on Sunday at Hollywood Park, there were just enough upsets throughout the 10-race, $1.3 million card for California-breds to create a $683,636 pick six carryover into Wednesday.
Hollywood Park offered a $1 million guaranteed pick six pool on races 5-10 Sunday, and for the second time on the 12 occasions the track has offered a guaranteed pool, no ticked identified all six winners. The last time it occurred (July 1, 2001), bettors poured $3.5 million into the pick six on the ensuing card.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Favored Boss Ego ($5) held off the late charge of comebacking Out Of Mind to win the $57,038 San Carlos Handicap by a head Sunday.
Boss Ego sat a bit wide in third place through the first six furlongs of the one-mile race, tracking pacesetting I'madrifter. He drew clear inside the final furlong, then held off Out Of Mind, who had only run once, in the Bel Air Handicap (G2) last July 7, since 2000.
Boss Ego earned $31,050 to improve his lifetime earnings to $269,760 with seven wins in 27 starts.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Jockey Kent Desormeaux received a three-day suspension for Friday, Saturday and Sunday from stewards at Bay Meadows after he was disqualified from first to second with Smooth in Saturday's seventh race.
The suspension would keep Desormeaux from riding in the Kentucky Derby should U S S Tinosa be entered in the race. Kentucky does not allow jockeys to ride in designated races during suspensions as California does.
CHICAGO - It's almost like watching the same race over and over again. A day after Emeraldforajudge led all the way in the National Jockey Club Oaks, a week after Hail the Chief led all the way in the National Jockey Club Handicap, two weeks after Pretty Gale led all the way in the Lady Hallie Handicap, and three weeks after War Emblem led all the way in the Illinois Derby, With Ability led - you guessed it - all the way to win the Sixty Sails Handicap on Sunday at Sportsman's Park.
