The agenda for a Monday meeting of the New York Gaming Commission does not include an item sought by supporters of the banned trainer Rick Dutrow to reconsider his 10-year penalty.
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Carol Cedeno set a record for wins in a day by a rider at Delaware Park on Wednesday, scoring with seven of her nine mounts on the 10-race card.
The former record was six victories, which had been accomplished seven times. Michael McCarthy rode six winners twice, once in 1997 and again in 1998. The other riders are Joe Rocco Jr. (2011), Jimmy Edwards (1984), Greg McCarron (1974), George Cusimano (1968), and Eldon Nelson (1958).
Cedeno rode six Thoroughbred winners and one Arabian. The other riders won solely Thoroughbred races.
King Zachary raised his game to new heights with a highly rated win June 16 in the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs, and he will try to repeat that performance and win the Grade 3, $500,000 Indiana Derby on Saturday night at Indiana Grand.
Hay Dakota, Majestic Pride, Ibaka, and Patriots Rule – all of whom raced June 23 in the $100,000 Mystic Lake Mile – are matched in race 4, a high-end turf allowance feature, Friday night at Canterbury Park.
Hay Dakota won the 2017 Mystic Lake Mile and finished second in last month’s edition, beaten a half-length by My Bariley. He deserves to be favored in the Friday feature, but lacks positional speed and is back on relatively short rest following one of the stronger races of his career.
The Lone Star Park Racing Club will attempt to extend its record to 3 for 3 at this meet on Friday night, when Fred’s Lucky Boy makes his first start for the group. He goes in the opener, a five-furlong turf sprint in which he is offered for a claiming price of $12,500.
Lone Star Park launched the club at the start of the meet, and it won with its first runner, Lodi Street – who was claimed from the group. The club came back and won with its second starter, Peej. J.R. Caldwell trains for the Lone Star Park Racing Club.
M and M Racing and Karl Broberg have emerged as an owner-trainer team to watch. They had first stakes win together last week at Evangeline Downs and will be shooting for another this weekend at Lone Star Park.
Americium captured the $50,000 Opelousas last Friday at Evangeline, while Silver Moon Rising will start as one of the top contenders in the $100,000 fillies’ division of the Texas Thoroughbred Futurity on Sunday at Lone Star. Broberg joined the M and M Racing team of Mike and Mickala Sisk this year, picking up horses for Lone Star.
Strollin the Bayou flew home from last to win the Purple Violet Stakes for Illinois-breds on June 16. If she can transfer that Polytrack form to turf she’ll win the sixth race Friday at Arlington – but that’s a big if.
Strollin the Bayou’s two best races have come on Arlington’s synthetic surface. Perhaps she’s just a different horse racing in blinkers, which trainer Chris Block added for the Purple Violet, but there’s a better chance she excels on Arlington’s main track.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Twenty-one large individual win bets totaling $124,109 were placed on Firenze Fire in the last 28 seconds of wagering, prompting his odds to plummet from 5-1 to 5-2 in Saturday’s Grade 3 Dwyer, a race he won.
According to information provided by the New York Racing Association, there was one individual wager of $24,055, another of $11,596, one of $8,500, and a dozen of $5,000 made in the last 28 seconds before post. Other wagers ranged from $547 to $4,355.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The Canadian-based trainer Catherine Day Phillips has run just one horse at Belmont Park, that being A Bit O’ Gold, who finished last in the 2005 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
On Saturday, Day Phillips will be back in New York to run Mr Havercamp in the $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes going a mile over the Widener turf. Mr Havercamp, a 4-year-old Ontario-bred gelding by Court Vision, has won 5 of 7 starts, including the Steady Growth Stakes at Woodbine by 4 3/4 lengths on June 16.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The road warrior Pavel will again be traveling, as he will make his next start in the Grade 1, $1.2 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 4, trainer Doug O’Neill said Wednesday.
Pavel ended a six-race losing streak with an authoritative 3 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs on June 16. Though based in Southern California, Pavel has, in 10 races, run at Saratoga, Parx, Belmont, Meydan, and Churchill in addition to Santa Anita and Del Mar.