United, the narrow winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita, could be sent to Keeneland twice in the second half of this year.
Trainer Richard Mandella has the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland in November as a long-range goal for United. Mandella said Sunday that the Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes, tentatively scheduled for July 12 at Keeneland, is a possibility for an early summer race.
“I might look at Keeneland in July,” Mandella said.
In two starts on as many continents this year, Wildman Jack has won group or graded stakes in course record or near-course record time. In both cases, owner and breeder Glenn Sorgenstein watched from his Southern California home out of necessity.
Wildman Jack won the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint at about six furlongs on turf March 7 at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates in course-record time of 1:07.61. Sorgenstein stayed in California instead of traveling to the Middle East.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Despite South Florida being inundated by rain Sunday morning, Kentucky Derby candidates Tiz the Law and Shivaree – the first- and second-place finishers, respectively, in this year’s Grade 1 Florida Derby – were able to get in five-furlong works in preparation for a potential rematch four weeks down the road in the Belmont Stakes.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario — The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario reported in a Saturday release that containment measures appear to have been successful at reining in an outbreak of equine herpesvirus (EHV-1) at Woodbine.
The AGCO received new test results that suggested the measures employed have continued to contain the neuropathogenic form of EHV-1 to a single barn (Barn 12) at Woodbine.
Emerald Downs will run the Grade 3 Longacres Mile on Sept. 13 as the highlight of a 16-race stakes schedule this summer, the track announced in a press release on Saturday. Emerald Downs will run for 44 days, from June 22 through Oct. 4.
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Initially, at least, the races will be conducted without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic. Emerald had been scheduled to begin juts meet on April 18.
The status of a 2020 racing season at Arlington remained uncertain after a regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the Illinois Racing Board on Friday.
Arlington was supposed to open its race meet on May 1 but remains shuttered, with empty stables, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Canterbury Park will offer about $200,000 in daily purses during a 52-day race meet expected to commence June 10, the Minnesota track announced Friday.
A news release from the track said the stakes schedule had been altered, with some races eliminated and others taking purse cuts. Canterbury submitted a proposed schedule to the Minnesota Racing Commission, which is expected to approve the meet conditions at a June 8 meeting.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Gregg Sacco was pleasantly surprised that the New York Racing Association rescheduled the Grade 1 Carter Handicap for June 6, even if the purse had to be cut by $150,000. The race was originally scheduled for April 4 but was one of 19 cards scrapped at Aqueduct due to the coronavirus pandemic.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Chad Brown will be well armed when Belmont Park kicks off its spring-summer meet on June 3.
After having many races in which he was looking to run taken away when Keeneland canceled its spring meet and with Churchill Downs delaying many of its major stakes to September due to the coronavirus pandemic, Brown will have many of his stars make their seasonal debuts at Belmont.
