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Lady Eli (Divine Park), scheduled to make her 2015 debut in Sunday’s GIII Appalachian S. at Keeneland, worked five furlongs over a yielding turf course in 1:04.80 in Lexington Monday. “She looked really good,” trainer Chad Brown said. “She worked fabulous, so she’s ready to go for Sunday.” Unbeaten in three starts, Lady Eli has been...
Ackerley Brothers Farm’s Bold Conquest (Curlin), looking to improve on a third-place finish behind American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in the Mar. 14 GII Rebel S. in Saturday’s GI Arkansas Derby, worked four furlongs at Oaklawn Park Monday in :48.60. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.80. “He’s doing extremely well,” trainer Steve Asmussen said. “We lucked...
Untapable (Tapit) tuned up for an expected start in Friday’s GI Apple Blossom S. with a bullet four-furlong work in :48 at Oaklawn Monday. Clockers caught Untapable’s final quarter-mile in :23 and she galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.40. Trainer Steve Asmussen said he will confer with owner Ron Winchell before a final decision on the...
SANTA ANITA DERBY-GI, $1,000,000, SAX, 4-4, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:48 3/5, ft. 1–DORTMUND, 122, c, 3, by Big Brown 1st Dam: Our Josephina (SW & GSP, $190,584), by Tale of the Cat 2nd Dam: Ropa Usada, by Danzig 3rd Dam: Lakeville Miss, by Rainy Lake ($85,000 RNA wnlg ’12 KEENOV; $90,000 yrl ’13 FTKJUL; $140,000 2yo...
By Mike Kane New York Racing Association President and CEO Chris Kay said Friday that he will complete a report on the re-privatization of NYRA by the April deadline. Legislation passed in 2012 that permitted New York State to take control of NYRA called for the beleagured association to be run by the NYRA Re-Organization...
By Mike Kane Saratoga Race Course is America’s oldest track, home to the most popular meeting of the season in this country and a powerful economic engine for the nine-county region surrounding Saratoga Springs, N.Y. An economic report issued Friday put the track’s importance in perspective, showing that the 2014 season generated $237 million in...
With the impending scratch of 3-1 morning line favorite Promise Me Silver (Silver City) due to concerns over travel and track conditions, the complexion of today’s GIII Honeybee S. at Oaklawn Park is vastly changed. No longer forced to confront the unbeaten grey, a field of eight sophomore fillies will go to post in the...
While the main event on today’s Tampa Bay Downs card showcases 3-year-old males on the dirt, the GIII Florida Oaks features a full field of 14 sophomore fillies going 1 1/16 miles on the turf two races earlier. With Gulfstream Park’s Herecomesthebride S. rained off the lawn one week ago, the Oaks benefitted from a...
While GIII Withers S. winner Far From Over (Blame) will wait for the GI Wood Memorial S., the three horses who finished directly behind him in that Feb. 7 heat are back for the Big A’s GIII Gotham S. Zayat Stables’s ‘TDN Rising Star’El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) annexed Churchill’s GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. Nov. 29 and...
By T.D. Thornton Jockey Roman Chapa’s fine for carrying an electrical shocking device was increased from $25,000 to $100,000 by the Texas Racing Commission Friday. Chuck Trout, the TRC executive director, wrote in a commission order that the maximum allowable fine levied by the Sam Houston Race Park stewards was “insufficient to adequately address the...
Lets Go Stable, WinStar Farm and China Horse Club’s Daredevil (More Than Ready) makes his 3-year-old debut in today’s GII Swale S., which was postponed one week due to very wet weather. A 6 1/4-length debut winner sprinting in the Belmont mud Sept. 13, the half-brother to GISW Albertus Maximus (Albert the Great) ran away from Upstart...
Grade I winners Private Zone (Macho Uno) and Wicked Strong (Hard Spun) headline a strong field of six in today’s GII Gulfstream Park H. The former was transferred from Doug O’Neill to Alfredo Velazquez this fall before defending his title in Belmont’s GI Vosburgh Invitational S. Sept. 27, and finished a good third in the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint...