ARCADIA, Calif. – Sharp wins on Saturday at Santa Anita by the 3-year-old filly Thought Process in an allowance and the veteran gelding Motorious in the Grade 3 Daytona Stakes for turf sprinters have put the multiple stakes winners on course for stakes at the Del Mar summer meeting.
ARCADIA, Calif. – It was fitting that trainer Doug O’Neill reached his 3,000th Thoroughbred win in North America in Sunday’s eighth race at Santa Anita with a colt owned and bred by Paul and Zillah Reddam.
O’Neill, 57, has won two Kentucky Derbys for the Reddams – with I’ll Have Another in 2012 and Nyquist in 2016.
“I’m so glad we were able to get our 3,000th for them,” O’Neill said in the winner’s circle.
ARCADIA, Calif. - What started last fall at Del Mar has continued through the winter and spring at Santa Anita. The 5-year-old mare Mrs. Astor thrives in distance stakes on turf.
On Saturday at Santa Anita, Mrs. Astor won her fourth stakes in her last five starts with a nose victory in the $100,500 Possibly Perfect Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Nysos, a three-time Grade 3 stakes winner who is a neck away from an unbeaten record, is scheduled to have his next start in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on July 26.
Nysos, trained by Bob Baffert for Charles and Susan Chu’s Baoma Corp., was second by a neck in the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes at seven furlongs on May 3 in his first start of the year. Nysos was the brilliant winner of the Grade 3 Triple Bend Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita on May 31 in his most recent appearance.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The quarantine of a Belmont Park barn due to a case of strangles will not prevent trainer Rick Dutrow from running his 3-year-olds McAfee and Captain Cook in upcoming stakes out of town.
Two weeks ago, Dutrow shipped the pair of McAfee and Captain Cook to Churchill Downs where both have put in two workouts. McAfee, second in the Grade 3 Peter Pan on May 10, is entered in Saturday’s Grade 3, $500,000 Ohio Derby at Thistledown. Captain Cook, third as the favorite in the Peter Pan, is pointing to the $250,000 Maxfield Stakes at Churchill on June 29.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Dylan Davis on Sunday began serving a three-day suspension handed him by the New York stewards for his ride aboard Strategic Focus at Saratoga on June 6.
That day, Strategic Focus won a first-level allowance by three-quarters of a length over Malarchuk. Strategic Focus, making just his second career start, came over in front of Marlarchuk after clearing him.
Barn 28 at Belmont Park has been placed under a 14-day precautionary quarantine due to a confirmed case of strangles found in a horse who resided in that barn, according to a release issued Saturday night by the New York Racing Association and New York State Gaming Commission.
Barn 28 contains horses trained by George Weaver, Todd Pletcher, and Rudy Rodriguez.
Jockey J.G. Torrealba was taken off his remaining mounts at Laurel Park Friday and transported to a nearby hospital after falling off 4-year-old Aonbharr in the third race. According to his agent, Torrealba did not sustain any significant injuries.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There will be a two-day pick-six carryover of $124,619 for bettors to chase Saturday at Aqueduct.
The pick six was not hit for a second straight card Friday, the biggest upset being posted in the second leg when Widdershins ($89.50) won a maiden claiming race under Junior Alvarado for trainer Amira Chichakly. The remainder of the sequence was rather logical, with the next highest-priced winner returning $10.20.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Friday was a track-record setting day at Aqueduct.
The 7-year-old gelding Baby Yoda, away from the races since last November, won a stakes-caliber allowance race by 4 1/4 lengths. He ran 6 1/2 furlongs over the main track in 1:13.86 which established a track record, eclipsing the mark set by Coronado’s Quest (1:14.35) when, as a 2-year-old in 1997, he won the Grade 2 Cowdin Stakes.
