STICKNEY, Ill. - Bettors continued to feast on Hawthorne Race Course's $50,000 guaranteed pick six Friday, when the bet was hit for the third time in as many days at this meet. One winning $2 ticket was sold on the pick six, paying $37,794.60. Pick six payoffs have varied each day despite the guaranteed pool because tax rates differ slightly depending on the venue where the winning ticket was sold.
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DRF Past Performances
ARCADIA, Calif. - Val Royal, the winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park on Oct. 27, is likely to have another start this year, trainer Julio Canani said Friday.
Val Royal resumed exercise at Santa Anita on Thursday and is being considered for the $500,000 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park over 1 1/16 miles on turf on Nov. 24 or the Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin Racecourse on Dec. 16.
Canani said that Val Royal lost weight in the Mile, but that he has quickly rebounded.
At a glance, Top Hit's turf form does not make him a top contender for Sunday's $100,000 Bay Meadows Derby.
He finished fifth in the minor Tempe Handicap on turf last March at Turf Paradise, his only outing on the surface. Since then, his career has blossomed with a win in the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby on the main track at Remington Park and placings in two Grade 3 stakes at Hollywood Park.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Chorwon, sixth at 58-1 in the Breeders' Cup Turf, is through for the year after having bled in the Turf, said trainer Hal Wiggins. The 8-year-old likely will run again next year, with his campaign starting sometime at the Fair Grounds meet that runs through late March.
So many Nicks in the racing game
The surname Nicks often has been linked with success at Churchill Downs, primarily because Ralph Nicks long has served as the top Kentucky-based assistant to Bill Mott.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - She may run or she may stay in the barn, but Heliotrope definitely will be heading to the breeding shed after Sunday's River Memories Stakes at Woodbine.
"If it's soft at all I won't run her," said David Bell, who has trained Heliotrope throughout her productive career for her owners and breeders, Dick and Jo Ellen Shaw.
"I don't want to tear her up in her last start. She won on a yielding turf course last time, but only just. I still don't think she handles soft turf."
The king is dead. Long live the new king.
Mike McCarthy's five-year reign as the leading jockey at Delaware Park is about to end. When the track closes for live racing after Sunday's program, it will crown a new top rider, 22-year-old apprentice Jeremy Rose. Rose came into Saturday's card with 148 winners, 12 more than McCarthy.
Rose, a strong candidate for an Eclipse Award as the nation's top apprentice, credits trainer Tim Ritchey, who uses him as his primary rider, and his agent, "Kid" Breeden, for his success.
MIAMI - Sunday is the opening of the Tropical-at-Calder meeting. That means classier racing, the return of big name stables, world-class riders, and smaller purses.
Beginning Sunday, purses will tumble on a race-to-race basis compared with the Calder meet - despite the fact the quality of the daily fare will improve. But as Calder president Ken Dunn explains, the lower purses are merely a factor of more races being presented over the course of the next 8 1/2 weeks.
April's Lucky Boy, a front-running colt who is undefeated in two career starts, will try to carry his speed seven furlongs Sunday in the $25,000 Prevue at Remington Park in Oklahoma City. The stakes has drawn nine 2-year-olds, and serves as a prep for the track's $75,000 MEC Mile on Nov. 24.
April's Lucky Boy won his maiden over 5 1/2 furlongs Sept. 28, and then won the $50,000 Oklahoma Classics Day Juvenile over six furlongs in a quick 1:10.55 on Oct. 21. In both races he was ridden by Don Pettinger.
Few in racing would look to the $25,000 Lady Razorback Futurity, a race for 2-year-old fillies bred in Arkansas, to produce a starter for the Grade 2, $200,000 Golden Rod Stakes at Churchill Downs on Nov. 24. But this year's running of the six-furlong race should when it is contested for the eighth time at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La., on Sunday.