Komorebino Omoide will be going for a sweep of the two richest races at Lone Star Park next Saturday, June 28, when he makes a rare start on grass in the $250,000 Texas Turf Classic.
The 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up headlines Lone Star’s Summer Turf Festival of four stakes. The program also includes the $125,000 Wasted Tears for fillies and mares and a pair of turf sprints. Entries were to have been taken Saturday, June 21.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Barn 32 at Woodbine remains under quarantine after a horse trained by Krista Cole tested positive for the contagious disease Equine Herpesvirus, or EHV-1.
Horses were not allowed to leave the barn on Thursday, resulting in several scratches on Thursday’s card, including third-race favorite Gizmo’s B F F and Ala Turka. Horses from that barn were also scratched Friday, which will also be the case on Saturday and Sunday.
Separating their quality 3-year-olds for the second half of the season is a nice problem to have for owner Winchell Thoroughbreds and trainer Steve Asmussen, with three stakes winners preparing to get back to the races in the coming weeks.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Barn 32 at Woodbine has been put under quarantine after a horse trained by Krista Cole tested positive for the contagious disease Equine Herpesvirus, or EHV-1.
Horses were not allowed to leave the barn on Thursday, resulting in several scratches on Thursday’s card, including third-race favorite Gizmo’s B F F and Ala Turka. Once Woodbine receives confirmation that all horses in barn 32 test negative, a separate training session will be created to keep them isolated from the general horse population.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Kopion, the nation’s leading female sprinter, continues to record fast workout times in advance of her next scheduled start in the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos on July 5.
On Wednesday at Santa Anita, Kopion worked six furlongs in 1:11. She worked alone, but raced in pursuit of a horse from another stable who started well in front.
“One broke off quite aways in front and she decided she had to catch that thing,” trainer Richard Mandella said. “It was pretty awesome.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Mirco Demuro, a former leading rider in Italy who has won more than 1,300 races in Japan, will be based at Del Mar this summer, according to his new agent, Tony Matos.
Matos said on Sunday that Demuro will arrive at Del Mar a few days before the start of the track’s summer meeting on July 18.
Bracket Buster has returned to Kentucky following his career-best performance winning the Pegasus Stakes last Saturday at Monmouth Park – but another trip to the Jersey Shore could very well be possible.
Bracket Buster rolled by seven lengths in the Pegasus, geared down late while earning a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 91. The race was the local prep toward the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes on July 19, and both Bracket Buster and the runner-up, longshot Wildncrazynight, receive free entry to the race as a result.
Remington Park will introduce a new race, the $250,000 Great West Turf Sprint, on Sept. 28, and officials hope the five-furlong tilt for 3-year-olds and up might attract prospects for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.
The Great West will share a card with the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at 1 1/8 miles and the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks. The races are part of a 32-race stakes schedule worth a cumulative $3.4 million, according to an announcement made by Remington on Monday.
Too Much Kiki, who is the reigning Texas-bred of the year, may have opened a new career chapter for herself last month with her runner-up finish in the $100,000 Memorial Day Sprint at Lone Star Park.
She finished two lengths behind winner Mystic Lake, a multiple Grade 2 winner and earner of more than $1 million who could make her next start at Saratoga in the Honorable Miss.
Mister Omaha is on pace for a start in the $250,000 Iowa Derby next month at Prairie Meadows after the multiple stakes winner turned in a strong recent work at his base of Lone Star Park. The 1 1/16-mile stakes is July 5.
“That’s our plan if everything goes good between now and then,” said Joe Offolter, who trains Mister Omaha for his breeder, Bryan Hawk.
Mister Omaha breezed a half-mile in 50 seconds last Sunday and from there galloped out a mile in 1:40 and change, Offolter said. Jockey Luis Quinonez, who has the mount in the Iowa Derby, was aboard Mister Omaha.
