Mid-Atlantic rider Alex Cintron won his 1,000th race in North America on Monday aboard Lorden’s Love in the fourth race at Delaware Park.
Lorden’s Love, who is trained by Scott Lake, paid $15.40 in the $12,500 claiming race.
Cintron is currently riding in both Delaware and Maryland. He leads the Thoroughbred standings at Delaware and through six races Monday trails Carol Cedeno by one win in the overall standings. Delaware often closes out its cards with an Arabian race.
The Arlington racing office on Sunday listed 13 names as possible runners for Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 American Derby, the local prep for the Grade 1 Secretariat next month. The American Derby is one of four turf stakes on the Million Preview Day card and appears to be coming up with the deepest, most interesting field on the program.
Trainer Tony Mitchell late Monday morning was replacing a couple broken fans set up to blow into stalls in his Arlington shed row. The stall of the stable star, Sir Anthony, was never allowed to get too warm.
“He’s got the biggest fan – and a big fan club,” said Mitchell, who himself had traveled with Sir Anthony for a successful holiday trip last week to Prairie Meadows, where Sir Anthony won the Grade 3, $300,000 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker on Friday night.
Promises Fulfilled earned himself a fees-paid berth back to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint by virtue of his easy 4 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 2 John A Nerud Stakes. But his trainer, Dale Romans, said he’s not ruling the Dirt Mile out when his speedster returns to the Breeders’ Cup this fall at Santa Anita.
At some point during the Saratoga meet, the New York Racing Association plans to offer a pick six wager along the lines of the Rainbow 6 that has become popular in other jurisdictions, most notably Gulfstream Park.
The wager, which has a 20-cent minimum bet, pays out the entire pool only if there is one ticket with all six winners. If there is more than one winning ticket, 75 percent of the pool would be distributed to those winning tickets, with 25 percent being carried over to the next day’s card.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Tiz a Slam captured the Grade 3 Singspiel Stakes in his most recent start June 22, and trainer Roger Attfield said he will now point him toward the Grade 2, $175,000 Nijinsky Stakes over 1 1/2 miles on turf July 28, a race Tiz a Slam won last season.
Early Sunday morning, Linda Rice was indecisive as to whether she was going to enter Voodoo Song in Friday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes at Saratoga. Rice, thinking the horse would benefit from more time, was leaning against and looking to run him in the Lure Stakes on Aug. 3.
Then Rice watched Voodoo Song work five furlongs in 1:00.94 over Belmont’s turf course Sunday morning complete with a strong gallop-out, and that changed her mind.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Skywire, who went off as the favorite in the $1 million Queen’s Plate on June 29, will run back in the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on dirt July 23 at Fort Erie, trainer Mark Casse said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Tyler Gaffalione knows how to make a good first impression.
Last fall, riding full-time at Keeneland and Churchill Downs for the first time, Gaffalione was the leading rider at both meets. This spring, in his first time riding the Preakness Stakes, Gaffalione won the second jewel of Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown aboard War of Will.
David O’Rourke was named New York Racing Association CEO and president on March 26 after serving that role on an interim basis for two months following the resignation of Chris Kay. O’Rourke has been with NYRA since 2008, first as director of financial planning then vice president for corporate development. In 2013, he was appointed senior vice president/chief revenue officer. In that role, he developed NYRA’s business strategies in a variety of areas, including industry relations, simulcasting, television, and account wagering.
