Trainer Craig Lewis said he’s unsure where the eight-time stakes winner Brickyard Ride will reappear after his third-place finish in Sunday’s Thor’s Echo Stakes for statebred sprinters at Santa Anita.
Brickyard Ride finished 12 1/4 lengths behind winner The Chosen Vron in the four-runner Thor’s Echo Stakes. He disputed the pace for the first half-mile before tamely fading from contention on the rail.
“It wasn’t his day,” Lewis said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Ceiling Crusher, the unbeaten winner of two stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies by a combined 32 1/2 lengths this year, will remain in the statebred division when the Del Mar summer meeting begins in July.
Ceiling Crusher will be an overwhelming favorite to win her fifth start if she runs as expected in the $175,000 Fleet Treat Stakes for statebred fillies at seven furlongs on July 27.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York-bred 8-year-old gelding Battle Station, a three-time stakes winner, suffered multiple injuries to his left hind leg at the end of a workout Sunday morning over Belmont Park’s main track and had to be euthanized, according to trainer Domenick Schettino and his veterinarian.
Approaching the wire, jockey Dylan Davis had to pull up Battle Station abruptly. The horse was placed on an equine ambulance and was later taken to the Ruffian Clinic across the street from Belmont Park. Unfortunately, the injuries were too severe for Battle Station to be saved.
Bad Beat Brian set a course record and Just Might became racing’s newest millionaire in an allowance-level turf sprint last Friday at Churchill Downs.
Bad Beat Brian, a 6-year-old gelding, won by 1 1/4 lengths while completing the 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:01.53. The gelding was second by a head to Caravel in the Grade 2 Shakertown at Keeneland, and then finished sixth in the Grade 2 Twin Spires Turf Sprint on the Kentucky Derby undercard.
Churchill Downs, troubled by a spate of equine fatalities this spring, had horses injured on the track and subsequently euthanized last Friday and Saturday. Tests will be performed on the track this week, and an emergency veterinary panel will be convened at the track by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
As it prepares for a big card with six stakes on Saturday – dubbed Stephen Foster Preview Day – Churchill Downs sets the table with Thursday and Friday cards featuring allowance-level events.
Howling Time, who hinted at strong ability against tough competition in the 3-year-old class last year, makes his first start of the year in Thursday’s seventh race, a 6 1/2-furlong allowance-optional claiming race with a purse of $141,000.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The Alys Look, third in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 5, was transferred to trainer Chris Davis earlier this month and will have her first start for his stable in Saturday’s Grade 2 Summertime Oaks at Santa Anita.
Davis said on Sunday that The Alys Look was part of a group of eight horses recently sent to him by owners Ike and Dawn Thrash of Hattiesburg, Miss. The horses were previously trained by Brad Cox.
Jockey Isaac Castillo, who is shipping in to ride the Lone Star Million Day card Monday at Lone Star Park, will be returning to his former base of Monmouth Park for the remainder of New Jersey meet, agent Dylan Fazio said Saturday.
Fazio said following stakes mounts Monday at Lone Star, Castillo is scheduled to ride in the $150,000 Penn Oaks on Friday night at Penn National. Castillo will then begin riding at Monmouth on a regular basis the next day, June 3.
Trainer Rob Atras was suspended 10 calendar days and fined $1,000 for the finding of an overage of the therapeutic medication phenylbutazone in the post-race sample of Market Alert taken after the gelding finished fourth in the seventh race at Aqueduct on Feb. 20.
The trainer James Chapman, who has horses stabled in New York and Kentucky, was arrested by Nassau County (N.Y.) police on Wednesday and charged with stalking, a B misdemeanor, according to a posting on the Nassau County district court website and Chapman himself.
Chapman, 51, said he spent Wednesday night in jail and on Thursday morning was arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead. Chapman told Daily Racing Form that he pleaded not guilty to the stalking charge.
