HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Gulfstream Park stewards have handed down a five-day suspension to jockey Paco Lopez for careless riding aboard The Brother Slew, the winner in Sunday’s last race, the $300,000 Clasico del Caribe. The Brother Slew, who went postward at odds of 45-1, lugged in under right-hand pressure nearing the wire, putting runner-up Gran Omero in tight quarters and forcing him to steady sharply under jockey Javier Castellano. Following an inquiry and claim of foul by Castellano, the results stood as is.
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DRF Past Performances
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Saturday’s 63rd renewal of the $200,000 Fort Lauderdale Stakes will have a pretty big act to follow. Namely, the 62nd edition of the 1 1/8-mile Fort Lauderdale, which brought together a 13-horse field that included five Grade 1 or Group 1 winners including three horses exiting the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Turf six weeks earlier.
The $400,000 Springboard Mile, which is a points race for the Kentucky Derby, drew a full field of 12 horses when entries for the Remington Park fixture were taken Wednesday. The 2-year-old stakes anchors a 13-race card that closes out the meet on Sunday. There are a total of six stakes on the program. First post is 3 p.m. Central.
There will be an all-stakes pick four on races 10-13 and it will have a minimum guaranteed pool of $100,000, according to Matt Vance, vice president of racing operations for Remington. The Springboard Mile will go as race 12.
The three-time stakes winner Omaha Beach continues to record fast workouts in advance of the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita on Dec. 26.
Tuesday at Santa Anita, Omaha Beach worked five furlongs in 59.20 seconds. Trainer Richard Mandella clocked Omaha Beach in a slightly quicker 59 seconds.
“He’s doing terrific,” Mandella said.
Omaha Beach worked a half-mile in a quick 46.60 seconds at Del Mar on Nov. 23.
Umberto Rispoli, a former champion jockey in Italy who has ridden in Hong Kong in recent years, is relocating to Southern California.
Rispoli is scheduled to begin riding at Santa Anita on the opening day of the track’s winter-spring meeting on Dec. 26.
Trainer Mac Robertson plans to have a division of horses at Sam Houston Race Park for the first time when the meet opens Jan. 10. Robertson said he was granted 16 stalls. He also will maintain a division at his longtime winter base of Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.
Sam Houston has been able to increase purses for the upcoming meet due to favorable legislation in Texas. It’s drawn a number of new barns.
Robertson said he will be starting his first horses at Sam Houston.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The $500,000 Great White Way Stakes, a division of the New York Stallion Series, drew a full field of 14 2-year-olds when entries were taken Wednesday.
The New York breeders in conjunction with the New York Racing Association raised the purses of the Great White Way and Sunday’s Fifth Avenue Stakes from $150,000 a year ago. Both races, to be run at seven furlongs, are restricted to progeny of stallions based in New York.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A hearing scheduled for Dec. 18 by the New York State Gaming Commission to discuss the possibility of revoking or suspending the license of trainer Linda Rice has been postponed until Feb. 26-27, according to a spokesperson for the commission. The commission is also holding March 3-4 as additional days for the hearing in case more time is needed.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Mike Miceli won with his first starter of 2019 and it proved to be a harbinger for the 72-year-old trainer, who has a relatively small stable.
Miceli, a former jockey who in 1974 won the Haskell and Travers aboard Holding Pattern, is enjoying one of his best years in three decades of training. Miceli’s 20 wins from 73 starters and purse earnings of $707,341 this year are second only to his numbers of 2003 when he won 23 races and his horses earned $793,338.
Imperial Hint is scheduled to have a final pre-race breeze this weekend at his winter base at Tampa Bay Downs for the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector at Gulfstream Park as trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. looks ahead to what could be another big year for the horse he has dubbed “The Little Rocket.”
Imperial Hint will ship across the Florida peninsula next week from Tampa in Oldsmar, Fla., for the Mr. Prospector on Dec. 21. Carvajal said that seven-furlong race will be the last for Imperial Hint before he goes to Saudi Arabia for the $1.5 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint on Feb. 29.