The popular California-bred mare Queen Bee to You, who won more than $600,000 and two graded stakes in three years after being claimed for $50,000, has been retired, trainer Andrew Lerner said Friday.
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Apprentice jockey Kody Kellenberger fractured his collarbone, but two other jockeys who went down in the ninth race Thursday at Fair Grounds escaped serious injury.
Kellenberger was riding Floatie in the low-level dirt claiming race when his mount fell after crossing the finish line in second. Sarah Ann’s Pointe, ridden by Joel Dominguez, ran into her downed rival and also fell just past the wire.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Point of Honor will make her next start in either of a pair of Grade 1 races after getting a tightener under her belt last Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.
Trainer George Weaver said Point of Honor will go next in the April 18 Apple Blossom at Oaklawn Park or wait for the May 1 La Troienne at Churchill Downs.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Tax, the 4-year-old Arch gelding best known for winning the Grade 2 Jim Dandy last July at Saratoga, could make his next start in the Charles Town Classic or the Oaklawn Handicap “depending on how the travel situation is by then,” trainer Danny Gargan said. Both are $1 million races to be run April 18.
Tax has had three breezes – the latest an easy half-mile in 50.60 seconds on Wednesday at Gargan’s winter base at the Palm Meadows training center – since finishing ninth as the 4-1 third choice in the Jan. 25 Pegasus World Cup.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Like everyone else, trainer Mark Hennig doesn’t know what impact the coronavirus outbreak will have on the immediate future of the racing industry or the status of this year’s Kentucky Derby. What he does know for certain is that he has a horse in Americanus who has earned himself a shot at an upcoming Derby prep, although he does not know just where that race will be.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It won’t be long before Chad Brown starts sending horses north to Kentucky and New York following what has been a relatively slow start to his 2020.
“We always kind of back off the gas pedal in the winter,” said Brown, the four-time reigning Eclipse Award-winning trainer. “But we’ve been even less active at Gulfstream Park this winter than in prior years, which is partly by design but also because our 3-year-old crop has been slower than normal to come around.”
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Oaklawn Park will not allow spectators ontrack this weekend in the wake of the international coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the track announced Thursday night. The policy will be in place for at least Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The races, which include three stakes Saturday, will go on as scheduled.
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The Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita Park, Golden Gate Fields, and Gulfstream Park, among other tracks, will not permit horses that were formerly trained by any of the individuals indicted earlier this week to enter races until they have gone through a mandatory 60-day “stand-down” period, the company announced on Thursday.
Grade 2, $351,500 Tampa Bay Derby, 1 1/16 miles, Tampa Bay Downs, March 7, 2020
(50 Derby qualifying points for a win, 20 for second, 10 for third, 5 for fourth)
Winner: King Guillermo, by Uncle Mo
Trainer: Juan Avila
Jockey: Samy Camacho
Owners: Victoria’s Ranch
Beyer Speed Figure: 99
Charlatan and Great Power, two of the best-regarded 3-year-olds in Southern California, both got late starts toward the Kentucky Derby, but will try to quickly move forward on Saturday when they race in a one-mile allowance at Santa Anita designed to propel them toward a significant Derby prep in April.