ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Nick Nosowenko set a career high for wins at a Woodbine meet in 2014 with 13, and he is well positioned to exceed that total this year after winning with three of his five starters during the meet’s opening weekend.
“My throat is still hoarse,” Nosowenko said. “It was a good start.”
Nosowenko found the winner’s circle with Simply Belonging and Splashy Gizmo on Saturday and added to that total Sunday when No Soup for You won the fifth race on the card.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Something Extra was so impressive in winning the Grade 3 Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland on April 4 that he caught the attention of representatives from the Royal Ascot meet.
Trainer Gail Cox said Something Extra has been invited to run in either the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes on June 16 or the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes on June 20 at Ascot, but the 7-year-old gelding likely will remain in North America for a summer campaign. His next start likely will be the Grade 3 Twin Spires Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on May 1.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland in late October will be just that – a dirt mile.
Breeders’ Cup officials met with a number of jockeys and trainers on the main track here Thursday morning before announcing that the BC Dirt Mile, which has undergone numerous variations since its inaugural running in 2007 – will indeed be run as a two-turn mile despite Keeneland never having run such a race because of the relatively short run into the first turn on its 1 1/16-mile main track.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Calgary Cat comes into the 2015 season with the goal of defending his title as Canada’s male sprint champion and likely will kick off his campaign in the $125,000 Jacques Cartier Stakes on April 26, trainer Kevin Attard said.
Gulfstream Park has scheduled a mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool for Saturday, April 25.
The carryover stood at $937,087.86 on Friday after no one hit the jackpot for the 21st consecutive program, since March 18. The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out only when there is a single ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no single winning ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With the help of two supplemental nominations, the $100,000 Danger’s Hour finally attracted enough entries to be carded as the featured race on Sunday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct.
On the flip side, the $100,000 Memories of Silver, scheduled for Sunday, was not carded, though it is likely to be brought back for Wednesday.
Prospect Park, fourth in the $1 million Santa Anita Derby on April 4, is back in training after being diagnosed with an illness this month.
Prospect Park is based at the San Luis Rey Downs training center in northern San Diego County with trainer Clifford Sise.
“He’s back tack-walking,” Sise said. “He seems back to his old self again. He had something viral that was bugging him.”
Frammento, still hoping to make the Kentucky Derby field after finishing fourth in the Blue Grass Stakes, returned to the work tab Thursday at Keeneland, going an easy four furlongs in 51.20 seconds under Sophie Doyle.
“You’ve just got to keep him together, that’s all,” trainer Nick Zito said of the maintenance move.
Bayern, unraced since winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita last November, worked seven furlongs from the gate in 1:24.40 on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
The exercise was one of Bayern’s final major workouts before a scheduled start in the $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes at seven furlongs May 2, a race on the Kentucky Derby undercard.
“He needed it,” trainer Bob Baffert said of the workout.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Salutos Amigos will be given a freshening and point to a summer campaign, with the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga the midrange objective, trainer David Jacobson said Thursday.
Salutos Amigos is back at Aqueduct following a trip to Dubai, where he finished eighth, beaten 5 1/2 lengths by Secret Circle, in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen on March 28. Jacobson said Salutos Amigos developed “a few complications” before the race that likely prevented him from running his best.
