MIAMI ? Valid Forbes was scheduled to board a flight Tuesday morning with her stablemate, Sir Bear, bound for Iowa, where she was to compete Thursday evening in the $150,000 Iowa Oaks. But trainer Ralph Ziadie decided to cancel those plans and keep her home, where she will run next in the $250,000 Azalea Breeders' Cup Stakes next Saturday at Calder.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Old boss, meet the new boss.
Be Valiant, trained by seven-time Arlington training champ Harvey Vanier, meets Boss Ego, trained by Arlington newcomer and current leading trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, in Friday's featured seventh race here, a fourth-level allowance-optional claimer at about one mile on turf.
Eight others also were entered, including the talented Jake the Flake, a recent Churchill allowance winner who starts for trainer Hal Wiggins.
LINCOLN, Neb. - Dennis Collins, the leading rider at the Lincoln State Fair, will be celebrating last weekend for years to come.
Collins's two brothers were in town from New Jersey for the jockey's marriage to Becca Jorgensen, held Monday afternoon in the West Garden area of the State Fair Grounds. Saturday, the Collins brothers got to see Dennis post a five-bagger. He followed the feat with a four-bagger on Sunday.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Neil Howard has come close, but has never managed to grab the brass ring here at Woodbine.
On Saturday, Howard attempts to win his first race here when Good Game goes in the Grade 3 Dance Smartly, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares that offers a purse of $171,300.
The Kentucky-based Howard had six starters here during the 1990's, with a third-place finish by Parade Ground in the 1998 Canadian International his most profitable result.
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jason Lumpkins, who arrived in northern California a little more than a year ago and gave perennial jockey champion Russell Baze one of his sternest tests at the recent Bay Meadows meeting, will leave the area July 23 and will probably miss the summer-fall Bay Meadows meet.
"I'm going back to West Virginia," Lumpkins said. "I have some loose ends to tie up there, and I will probably ride at Mountaineer Park the rest of the year."
Lumpkins does plan to return, but said he could be gone for up to six months.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The sight of Pico Perdomo with his arm draped across the shoulders of Larry King as if they were best pals from way back should not have been alarming. But it was.
Then again, strange forces seem to intersect at the races. This was Hollywood Park last Saturday afternoon, and the Vanity Handicap had just been run. So it probably made perfect sense that the most recognizable name in the world of the celebrity gabfest would share the post-race interview stand alongside the most famous trainer in the history of Uruguay.
Trainers Christophe Clement and Bill Mott again find themselves in a familiar position Thursday at Belmont Park: rivals in a turf race.
Clement and Mott have combined to win 18 races at the meet - 13 on the grass - and each sends out a runner in the $48,000 feature for 4-year-olds and older horses. The third-level allowance, which drew seven horses plus four main-track-only entries, will be run at 1 1/16 miles over the Widener turf course.
ALTOONA, Iowa - Unbridled Elaine heads a solid field of six in the $150,000 Iowa Oaks at 1 1/16 miles at Prairie Meadows Thursday.
Unbridled Elaine, a daughter of Unbridled's Song, enters the Oaks off a fourth-place finish against a strong field in the Grade 1 Acorn at Belmont Park on June 8, beaten 2 1/4 lengths by upset winner Forest Secrets. Her owner, Roger Devenport, transferred her from the barn of Dallas Stewart following the Acorn; she makes her first start for trainer David Vance in the Iowa Oaks.
After a pair of poor performances in his first two starts in this country, Mcdab has turned in two excellent efforts this summer at Hollywood Park. A speed horse who is better on turf than dirt, Mcdab led from start to finish in a first-level allowance race on May 12, then just failed to last when second in a second-level allowance race on June 7.