Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Migliore, Davis to man home front

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Richard Migliore and Robbie Davis, two jockeys who have made Gulfstream Park their winter home the last several years, will stay in New York and ride at Aqueduct this winter.

Both riders cited family matters as the primary reason for their decision.

Migliore's wife, Carmela, recently gave birth to the couple's fourth child and first daughter. Migliore said he also wanted to spend more time with his three growing sons.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Include heads to Clark with Day up

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Include, seventh as the 10-1 fifth choice in the Breeders' Cup Classic, has joined the prospective field for the Nov. 23 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs and will have Pat Day aboard.

Trainer Bud Delp said Thursday from Maryland that Include came out of the Classic in good shape and that the colt "looked like he wanted to do something. I'm sure that if he'd won, we'd have put him away for the year. But we looked around and thought the Clark would be the right spot."

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Chicago Six star of four-stakes day

Chicago Six, the reformed claimer who turned into a graded stakes winner this year, will seek his second consecutive win in the $75,000 Illinois Coronet Handicap at Hawthorne on Saturday. The race, at 1 1/16 miles, is the highlight of a card that features four stakes exclusively for Illinois-breds.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Whosleavingwho out for another Grade 1

Whosleavingwho should be the odds-on favorite to post his second Grade 1 derby win at Los Alamitos when he starts in the $250,000 Los Alamitos Derby on Saturday night.

Whosleavingwho, owned by Jim Geiler and Kim Kessinger, won the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby on Feb. 24 as the 4-5 favorite.

Whosleavingwho's success has not been limited to Los Alamitos. He campaigned at Ruidoso Downs last summer with a second-place finish to Feature Mr Jess in the Grade 1 Rainbow Derby and a fourth behind Stoli in the Grade 1 All American Derby.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Sam Houston

Chauffe Au Rouge, a $20,000 claim whose status as an accredited Texas-bred has been under investigation since he won the restricted $100,000 Texas Hall of Fame Stakes in course-record time Oct. 6, takes on open-company stakes rivals Saturday night in the $25,000 Buffalo Bayou at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Front Nine seeking Friendship, money

Front Nine, a 2-year-old colt who has won two of his last three starts by a combined 33 lengths, looks for his second career stakes win Saturday in the colts and geldings division of the Friendship Stakes at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La.

The six-furlong race is restricted to Texas-breds nominated to the Friendship series, and if all seven horses entered start, the purse for the race will be $72,274.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Circus Bar fast but outside

EAST BOSTON, Mass. - Circus Bar seems to have the best speed of the 13 2-year-olds set to run in Saturday's $25,000 Anthony Despirito Stakes at Suffolk Downs. Although he will likely be the post-time favorite, his mission will be complicated by the outside post in the six-furlong race. Jorge Vargas has the call.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

'Vicki' star of Ladies' Night

ANDERSON, Ind. - Saturday's Hoosier Debutante, which will carry a $100,000 purse for the second consecutive year, has drawn a wide-open field of 11 2-year-old fillies, including four stakes winners and three other stakes-placed runners.

The six-furlong feature has been carded as the fourth race on the 11-race "Ladies' Night" card.

Races 7 through 9 will feature a female jockey challenge. Locals Cindy Noll, Beth Butler, Joddie Fortner, Rhonda Collins, and others will compete against imports Greta Kuntzweiler, Zoe Cadman, and Cindy Herman-Medina.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

California shipper in tough

PHOENIX - Trainer Sean McCarthy probably figured that by shipping Bel Serenata to Turf Paradise things would be easy, since he was getting away from the graded stakes-caliber female turf runners in Southern California.

But as a full field of 10 gets ready for Saturday's $30,000 Chandler Handicap, McCarthy may find things don't always go according to plan. The 7 1/2-furlong turf race for 3-year-old fillies doesn't have Reine de Romance or Cindy's Hero to worry about, but the competition is stiff and figures to test Bel Serenata to the fullest.

Thu, 11/08/2001 - 00:00

Invader looms large in Kennedy Road

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Local sprinters spotted for a getaway payday in the $100,000 Kennedy Road on Dec. 1 probably will have unwelcome company.

The potential spoiler is Impeachthepro, who checked in at Woodbine for a hit-and-run mission in late September and is back in town under the care of trainer Bobby Pion.

Impeachthepro, a 4-year-old gelding owned by Nick Laneve and William Warner and trained by Mike Ferraro, has won 12 of 18 starts and finished second or third four times, earning $349,422 while competing almost exclusively in New York-bred company.