Aqueduct Race Track

Cash is King and LC Racing's Mailata (Maximus Mischief), a romping 19-length winner of the Parx Future Stakes Dec. 30, will now aim to garner some GI Kentucky Derby points in the GIII Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct Feb. 28. Butch Reid cross-entered the colt in the Jan. 3 Jerome Stakes before opting to remain at his Parx base for the seven-furlong Future Stakes--where he faced just two rivals--and the trainer expects to bypass the nine-furlong Withers Stakes Jan. 31 and wait for the one-turn mile Gotham a month later. "It's...

4th-AQU, $85K, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:10 p.m. ET. Jane Lyon bred and plans to race ROYAL QUEST (Not This Time), who sets sail on his maiden voyage for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. The colt is out of $2.1-million Summer Wind Keeneland November buy & SW For Royalty (Not For Love). The mare--responsible for GI La Brea Stakes winner Constellation (Bellamy Road) and MSW Truth Seeker (Into Mischief)--is herself a half-sister to GII Chilukki Stakes champ Kiss To Remember (Big Brown). Digging a little deeper into this first-time...

Gold Square's Throckmorton, the even-money favorite, went wire-to-wire to take the Awad Stakes at Aqueduct Sunday. Making his first start on the turf, the bay colt easily took the early lead and was under a snug hold through an opening quarter in :23.26. Let loose at the top of the lane as the half went up in :45.93, he scampered clear with a furlong to run and maintained his advantage to the wire. "When he broke out of there, he was kind of lost because he had the one hole...

2nd-Aqueduct, $79,050, Msw, 11-9, 2yo, 1m, 1:36.03, ft, 2 1/2 lengths. COURTING (c, 2, Curlin--Cavorting {MGISW, $2,063,000}, by Bernardini), who topped the 2024 Keeneland September sale when selling for $5 million, closed to be fourth after a slow start in his debut over this track and trip Sept. 27. The 1-9 favorite in this second outing, he was away alertly and was under a snug hold while setting a moderate early tempo. He shrugged off a challenge from longshot Stream It (Tapit) in upper stretch and sailed down the lane...

A Monday news story in the Blood-Horse stating that the New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) would be taking no action on a formal protest lodged by the owner of the runner-up in the Dec. 4 GII Remsen S. came as a surprise to that owner and his attorney, who told TDN later in the day they had received no communication from the commission indicating that the protest wouldn't be allowed to advance. The matter involves Jeff Drown, the owner of Remsen second-place finisher Zandon (Upstart), who said that the...

China Horse Club and WinStar Farm's Life is Good (Into Mischief) tuned up for an expected start in the Mar. 6 GII San Felipe S. with a five-furlong work in 1:00.80 (4/33) at Santa Anita Monday morning. "He went extremely well,"  trainer Bob Baffert said of the 3-year-old colt. Tabbed a 'TDN Rising Star' following a debut win at Del Mar last November, Life is Good is now two-for-two after opening his sophomore campaign with a win in the Jan. 2 GIII Sham S. Also working Monday from the Baffert...

George Sharp had been repeatedly shut out in his attempts to add to his 14-horse racing stable in the claiming ranks, so he was bidding not to lose when he purchased recent stakes winner Hello Hot Rod (Mosler) (hip 672) for $335,000 during Tuesday's session of the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale. "My agent Charlie Allen, who was at Fasig-Tipton, picked him out," Sharp said Tuesday evening from his Scottsdale, Arizona, home. "He picked out a few horses and I watched Hot Rod's races and the horse has a lot of...