ARCADIA, Calif. - Three weeks removed from an impressive maiden win, American System will try to win his first stakes when he heads a field of five in the $75,000 Sunny Slope Stakes for 2-year-olds on Saturday at Santa Anita.
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EDMONTON, Alberta - Saturday is getaway day, the end of the racing season here at Northlands Park.
It ends on a nine-race card that includes two high-level allowances races, one at 1 1/16 miles and the other at 6 1/2 furlongs.
The eighth race, to be run at 1 1/16 miles, attracted a field of eight, including stakes winners Red Exit and Tyko Tycoon.
Red Exit won the Herald Gold Plate at Calgary. Tyko Tycoon won the Klondike here in Edmonton.
Remington Park in Oklahoma City has cut purses for four of its upcoming stakes by a cumulative $80,000 after experiencing a drop in attendance and handle the past month. The track will reduce three of its $100,000 races, the Remington Green Handicap, the MEC Mile, and the Governor's Cup, to $75,000 each, while the Carris Memorial has been cut from $30,000 to $25,000. The track did not reduce overnight purses.
ARCADIA, Calif. - At first, there were no signs of rebellion. An innocent-looking Tiznow soaked in the sun opposite the quarter pole on the Santa Anita racetrack Thursday morning as Chris McCarron prepared to nudge him into his final workout before defending his Breeders' Cup Classic championship.
It was 9:30 a.m., and Tiznow had them right where he wanted. For the next
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dale Romans has won or tied for training titles at Churchill Downs and Turfway Park, and his late father, Jerry, won titles at Ellis Park.
But neither father nor son ever won a crown at Keeneland, although Dale Romans certainly appears headed toward completing the family grand slam. Romans won two more races Thursday, including the featured $77,924 Fort Springs Stakes, giving him eight victories and a commanding lead 10 days into the 17-day meet.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - American owners regularly purchase European horses of racing age and bring them to this country.
Less frequently, you'll see a horse that sold in Europe as a yearling imported for an American racing career. But who was the last American racehorse you saw purchased out of a French 2-year-old in training sale?
Bedside Manner, with her 7-for-9 record, and Cedar Knolls, who nearly captured a Grade 2 in her last start, are the headliners in the $125,000 Iroquois Handicap on Saturday's New York Showcase undercard.
Eight fillies and mares entered the seven-furlong Iroquois. Bedside Manner and Cedar Knolls each shoulder 122 pounds as the highweights.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Five Woodbine-based runners are among the 104 horses pre-entered for the World Thoroughbred Championships Breeders' Cup.
Heading the list is Numerous Times, winner of the Atto Mile and a contender for the Breeders' Cup Mile.
Quiet Resolve and Lodge Hill have been pre-entered for the Turf, A Fleets Dancer for the Classic, and Jealous Forum for the Juvenile Fillies.
Numerous Times, owned by The Committee Stable and trained by Sid Attard, is undefeated in six starts, all under jockey Patrick Husbands.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Strong business and surplus money from a legislative purse supplement prompted the Meadowlands to raise purses for all $50,000 and $75,000 stakes to $100,000 for the rest of the meet, starting with the Oct. 19 Pegasus Handicap program.
Thirteen stakes scheduled over the remaining four weeks of the meet will have their purses boosted to $100,000.