GROVE CITY, Ohio - Making the transition from an apprentice to a journeyman rider is often difficult, but Rex Stokes III is handling the switch quite nicely at Beulah Park this meet.
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NEW ORLEANS - Trainer Neil Howard will try for his second Grade 2 win in a week when Charmed Gift runs Saturday in the Fair Grounds Oaks. Tuesday, Howard looked on as Charmed Gift, second in the Grade 3 Silverbulletday in her last start, breezed a half-mile in 48.40 seconds shortly after Fair Grounds morning renovation break.
ARCADIA, Calif. - It is not easy being Penny Marie, a fragile mare who suffers from chronic allergies and requires numerous layoffs. But she is no pushover.
Penny Marie has won 6 of 13 races, runs well fresh, loves the Santa Anita downhill course, and is sufficiently qualified to win the $75,000 Winter Solstice Handicap on Thursday at Santa Anita. Ten fillies and mares entered the 6 1/2-furlong turf race, including 121-pound highweight Paga; in-form Queen of Wilshire, and comebacker Penny Marie, 118 each; and La Ronge, at 117.
NEW ORLEANS - The 7-year-old Bodyguard once ran with the stars. Two springs ago, Bodyguard spent his mornings keeping a gifted 3-year-old colt named Fusaichi Pegasus company during his morning exercise. The horses would work together, and Fusaichi Pegasus got enough out of the experience that he won the 2000 Kentucky Derby.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - At first glance it's hard to believe Thursday's $46,000 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park is carded for the turf, considering that the combined grass record of the eight horses in the body of the race is three wins from 46 starts.
But the reason for the unusual field for a turf race that has such a big purse is its conditions - for 4-year-olds and up who have never won a race other than maiden claimer or starter at a mile or over on the turf.
ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Bob Baffert said Tuesday that he would enter Danthebluegrassman in Saturday's $200,000, Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields.
is 2 for 2 at Golden Gate Fields with victories in the $55,000 Gold Rush Stakes on Dec. 15 and the $125,000, Grade 3 Golden Gate Derby on Jan. 12.
ARCADIA, Calif. - California-bred sprinter Echo Eddie has been invited to the $2 million Golden Shaheen in Dubai, where he and at least four other American sprinters will run in the six-furlong race, which is part of the Dubai World Cup card March 23.
Trainer Darrell Vienna and owner David Milch were informed Tuesday that Echo Eddie had been invited. In his most recent start Feb. 23, Echo Eddie won the $100,000 Ken Maddy Handicap by a 1 3/4 lengths, earning a 108 Beyer Speed Figure.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Terri Pompay has been around horses since she was 8 years old in her native Saratoga Springs, N.Y., but very few times in the intervening years has she gotten more enjoyment out of horses than in the last two months at Gulfstream Park.
Pompay, now 40, has sent out six winners from her first 24 starters at the 2002 meet. Several of her horses have returned big mutuels, including winners at 43-1, 23-1, and 10-1.
On Monday, the Pompay-trained Devon Rose captured the fifth race as an odds-on favorite.
JAMAICA, N.Y. - With 32 wins - eight more than his nearest competitor - entering the final week of inner track racing at Aqueduct, Gary Contessa has all but wrapped up the trainer's title at the winter meet.
How well he does in future meets will depend on the progression of his young horses. One horse Contessa believes has a big future is Double Buy Buy, a first-out maiden winner who makes his second career start in Thursday's feature, a preliminary allowance race for 3-year-olds at six furlongs.