DEL MAR, Calif. – The Oak Tree Charitable Foundation has pledged $50,000 toward the acquisition of an equine standing magnetic resonance imaging facility, to be added to the equine imaging center at Santa Anita before the end of the year, the Southern California Equine Foundation announced Friday.
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Emerald Downs will have 63 days of live racing in 2020. The meet begins Saturday, April 18, and concludes Sunday, Sept. 20.
There will be just one day of racing the first weekend. Sundays become part of the regular schedule beginning April 26. Friday evening racing begins May 8.
Post times are similar to last year – first post on Saturday will be 2 p.m. Pacific through June 6; beginning on June 13 it moves to 5 p.m. First post will be 2 p.m. on Sundays and 6:50 p.m. on Fridays throughout the meet.
Sky Promise, the 2018 champion 3-year-old male in Canada, is on deck for the Land of Enchantment card at Zia Park.
Trainer Robertino Diodoro said Sky Promise is being pointed for the $150,000 Zia Park Distance Championship at a mile and an eighth. The horse is coming off a runner-up finish in the local prep, the $50,000 Veterans.
Zia Park leading trainer Todd Fincher could have starters in five of the seven stakes making up the track’s $1 million Land of Enchantment card, led by Hustle Up and Sheriff Brown in the $250,000 Zia Park Derby.
The program is Nov. 27. It is the second richest card of the meet behind the $1.8 million New Mexico Cup.
Fincher, who is tied atop the Zia standings with Justin Evans, is coming off a strong New Mexico Cup. He won the program’s two richest races for Thoroughbreds, including the $185,000 Rocky Gulch New Mexico Classic Cup with Hustle Up.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Back-to-back allowances highlight a 10-race Sunday card that calls an end to the race week at Churchill.
Race 8 is a $99,000 second-level sprint in which Take Charge Angel and the comebacking Molto Bella figure prominently in a field of 10 3-year-old fillies.
Race 9 is a $97,000 first-level turf marathon in which Big Beautiful Wall is part of a full lineup of 12 going 1 3/8 miles, most of them 3-year-olds. Big Beautiful Wall will look to improve on a last-out runner-up effort under similar conditions at Keeneland. First post is 1 p.m. Eastern.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mr. Money checked out fine in the aftermath of a disappointing run in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and is being freshened ahead of a 4-year-old campaign next year, trainer Bret Calhoun said this week.
A winner of four straight Grade 3 races for 3-year-olds this year when based at Churchill Downs, Mr. Money was sent to Shantera Farm in Versailles, Ky., for a 60-day respite after being thoroughly examined days after fading to seventh, beaten 10 3/4 lengths by Spun to Run, in the Nov. 2 Dirt Mile at Santa Anita.
DEL MAR, Calif. – When Abusive Gary returns from a nine-month layoff in race 9 on Saturday at Del Mar, he will be racing on turf for the first time, going two turns for the first time, and making his first start since being gelded.
Abusive Gary, by Boisterous out of a Wolf Power mare, sprinted twice at Santa Anita in January before going to the sidelines. Race 9 on Saturday is a one-mile grass race for older California-bred maidens.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Got Stormy, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita earlier this month, will make another trip west, this time for the Grade 1, $300,000 Matriarch Stakes on Dec. 1, closing-day of Del Mar’s fall meeting, trainer Mark Casse informed Thursday.
Madeline Auerbach, a prominent California horsewoman, has resigned from the California Horse Racing Board after a five-year tenure at the regulatory agency, she announced on Wednesday.
The resignation of Auerbach, who was vice chair of the board, leaves two vacancies at the top of the board. Chuck Winner, the former chairman, declined to be reappointed to the board earlier this year and stepped down. In addition, the CHRB’s executive director, Rick Baedeker, 70, has announced that he is retiring sometime next year.
MIAMI – Independence Hall might be the most noteworthy 2-year-old stakes winner in trainer Mike Trombetta’s barn at the moment, but he isn’t the most recent. That distinction goes to American Giant, who rallied to a two-length victory over stablemate Our Little Jewel in last Saturday’s Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park West.