Purses for Oaklawn Park's first condition book next year will average a record $225,000 to $250,000 a day, thanks in part to the success of Instant Racing at the Hot Springs, Ark., track, which opens for a 54-day meet Jan. 25.
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DRF Past Performances
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The same owner-trainer team that captured the Kentucky Derby here last spring with Monarchos was back in the Churchill Downs winner's circle Saturday after Snow Dance earned a hard-fought victory in the $172,500 Mrs. Revere Stakes.
Like Monarchos, Snow Dance is a gray 3-year-old.
"I love those grays," said owner John Oxley.
With Craig Perret aboard for trainer John T. Ward Jr., Snow Dance had to work virtually every step of the Mrs. Revere, a Grade 2, 1 1/16-mile turf race restricted to 3-year-old fillies.
It took a photo to separate the first three finishers in Saturday's $50,000 Pennsylvania Futurity at Philadelphia Park.
Oswayo, who was five lengths behind with only an eighth of a mile remaining in the seven-furlong stakes for statebred 2-year-olds, finished a nose ahead of Pal's Partner in 1:23.63. Previously unbeaten Volley Ball, the even-money favorite, was another neck back in third.
MIAMI - With his 97 victories, good for third in the rider standings at the recently concluded Calder meeting, Manny Aguilar served notice that he would be a major factor during the Tropical at Calder meet. With a dozen victories over the first 10 days of the new meet, Aguilar has grabbed the top spot in the standings and is off to a flying start in quest of his first riding title.
JAMAICA, N.Y. - The Valley Stream Stakes for juvenile fillies at Aqueduct has not been known for producing future stars. But it would not surprise many if more than one of the six entered for Sunday's $75,000 Valley Stream for 2-year-old fillies, being run for the first time as a Grade 3 race, were to show up in Grade 1 races next year.
In just a few starts, Forest Heiress, Proper Gamble, A New Twist, and On Parade have shown enough talent to be pegged as horses with a future. Cherokee Girl and Vesta complete the field.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Late-running Feathers goes for her fourth consecutive victory Sunday in the Grade 3 $137,875 Bessarabian Handicap for fillies and mares at Woodbine.
Feathers, who won her first stakes in the 2000 Bessarabian, was absent from late April until early September because of a virus. She won a Fort Erie allowance in her first start back, and then won a classified allowance here.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - There is something for everyone in the $100,000 Moccasin Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Hollywood Park on Sunday.
Want a front-runner going seven furlongs? Bay Meadows stakes winner Cinnful Bride fits the bill. "She's a speed filly, we'll see how far she goes," trainer Caesar Dominguez said. "At Hollywood Park, speed has been holding."
Want a late-runner? Runaway Pro suits. "She's not a speed horse," trainer Mike Mitchell admitted. "But if there's a lot of speed that's stopping at the eighth pole . . . I think I have her ready."
FORT ERIE, Ont. - For the second consecutive year, Fort Erie had significant gains in both ontrack and offtrack mutuel handle. The 116-day season ended Tuesday.
Ontrack wagering totaled $20,212,100, up 11 percent from last year's $18,303,198. There was $73,540,917 bet offtrack, a 28 percent jump from $57,684,820.
Last year, the first full season 1,200 slot machines were in place at the track, wagering had increased 9 percent ontrack and 37 percent offtrack.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - With many horsemen having their stall allotments cut in south Florida or deciding to ship elsewhere this winter, a cloud of uncertainty is hanging over Gulfstream Park as it prepares to open its meet on Jan. 3.