ELMONT, N.Y. - With few Grade 1 opportunities for 3-year-old fillies on turf, and with no dominant horse in the division, it came as no surprise that 14 were entered for Sunday's $250,000 Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park.
Only 10 will be permitted to run in the Garden City, run at nine furlongs on the inner turf course.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - American shippers Louve Mysterieuse and Miesque's Approval should be tough in Sunday's supporting features at Woodbine, the Grade 2 Canadian Handicap and the
Grade 2 Summer Stakes.
Louve Mysterieuse ships in from California for the $235,000 Canadian, a 1 1/8-mile turf event for fillies and mares. A French import, Louve Mysterieuse hasn't been worse than fourth in six starts this year for trainer Neil Drysdale, who sent her out to win an optional claimer at Santa Anita in February.
POMONA, Calif. - Few attractions of the Los Angeles County Fair are more reliable than Feverish, a 6-year-old mare who returns Sunday to one of her favorite stomping grounds - the five-eighths-mile oval of Fairplex Park.
"She's won three of four there, and was second the other time," trainer Dan Hendricks said. "Put it this way, we're not experimenting."
EDMONTON, Alberta - Alberta's version of the World Thoroughbred Championships, the annual Fall Classic Day at Northlands on Sept. 22, invariably settles the season's divisional races.
However, there already seems to be no doubt about the identities of the province's 2-year-old champions.
Trainer Sid Gray clinched the juvenile colt/gelding honors when he sent out Dance Me Free to win his third consecutive stakes.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The Terry Marshall-trained entry of No Time Flat and Thundering Herd figures to be favored in the $100,000 Jack Diamond Futurity on Sunday at Hastings Park. The 6 1/2-furlong race attracted eight 2-year-old colts and geldings.
AUBURN, Wash. - There will be a distinctly international flavor to this Sunday's $125,000 Emerald Downs Breeders' Cup Derby, as three of the eight entrants have shipped down from Canada to contest the 1 1/8-mile event.
Hastings Park stakes winners Diglett and I'm Free are joined by budding star Thurston, who made his last start at Edmonton's Northlands Park.
ELMONT, N.Y. - After taking the summer off to recover from a respiratory infection, John Paul Too made a successful return to the races Friday, taking the $81,175 General Douglas MacArthur Handicap for New York breds by 1 1/4 lengths before an opening-day crowd of 4,779 at Belmont Park.
No Bad Habits outfinished Impeachthepro by a head for second. Mount Intrepid, Duplicitous, and Pure Harmony completed the order of finish. Say Florida Sandy, the morning-line favorite, scratched, presumably to run in Friday night's Paterson Handicap at The Meadowlands.
The takeout rate for all bets at Keeneland's fall meet this year will be reduced from 19 to 16 percent, Keeneland announced Friday.
The cut will make exotic and superexotic bets at Keeneland the cheapest in the country.
Nick Nicholson, Keeneland's president, said Friday that the track was influenced by the New York Racing Association's decision this summer to reduce the takeout on most of its bets.
ELMONT, N.Y. - With few Grade 1 opportunities for 3-year-old fillies on turf, and with no dominant horse in the division, it came as no surprise that 14 were entered for Sunday's $250,000 Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park.
Only 10 will be permitted to run in the Garden City, run at nine furlongs on the inner turf course.