The horse with one of the best names on the backstretch is also one of the best horses at Oaklawn. Ivan Fallunovalot – pronounced “I’ve been falling off a lot” – is the highweight Thursday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap. He brings three straight triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures into the race, including a 108 for a January allowance score and a 105 for a win in the $100,000 King Cotton Stakes in February.
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Trainer Todd Pletcher has a trio of horses targeting stakes on Saturday’s closing-day card at Oaklawn Park, and all were due to arrive in Arkansas on Tuesday.
Pletcher said Madefromlucky is being pointed for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby, while Golden Lad and Race Day are on deck for the Grade 2, $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap. He said the three horses were to travel to town aboard a flight from Florida.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – After running second to Carpe Diem in Saturday’s Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, Danzig Moon was shipped to Churchill Downs on Monday morning to join trainer Mark Casse’s string in Louisville.
Danzig Moon earned 40 Kentucky Derby qualification points by finishing second in the Blue Grass. He now sits 12th in the Kentucky Derby points standings, with 45 points. There are two points races remaining in the Kentucky Derby Championship Series.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Total all-sources handle on Saturday’s 12-race Wood Memorial program at Aqueduct was $15,841,220, down 12.5 percent from the 2014 figure of $18,117,037. Ontrack handle Saturday was $2,469,614, down 9.2 percent from last year’s figure of $2,718,962.
Reported attendance Saturday was 11,213, down 11.8 percent from last year’s figure of 12,719.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Last year’s 2-year-old filly champion Take Charge Brandi is now stabled at Churchill Downs, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Monday. She had been rehabbing at Oaklawn after sustaining a non-displaced bone chip in her right knee. Lukas said Take Charge Brandi remains on schedule to resume training on May 15.
◗ Oaklawn leading rider Ricardo Santana Jr. was scheduled to ride at Will Rogers Downs on Monday, but took off his mounts after spiking a fever on Sunday night, said his agent, Ruben Munoz. Munoz looks for Santana to resume riding Wednesday at Oaklawn.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Rudy Rodriguez believes Dads Caps is good enough to be considered for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint if he is ridden the right way. Pigeonholed as a speed horse, Dads Caps won Saturday’s Grade 1 Carter Handicap from off the pace.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Multiple Grade 2 winner Tapiture is confirmed for the Grade 2, $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap on Saturday, said trainer Steve Asmussen. The horse breezed an easy half-mile in 50 seconds on Monday. Tapiture breezed off the fence and in hand, with clockers getting his final quarter in 24.20 seconds. Asmussen said Ricardo Santana Jr. has the mount on Tapiture.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Last year’s 3-year-old filly champion, Untapable, is confirmed for a start in the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap, trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. She breezed a half-mile earlier in the day in her final prep for the 1 1/16-mile race, which will be run Friday at Oaklawn Park.
“We’re a go,” Asmussen said Monday afternoon after firming up plans with owners Winchell Thoroughbreds.
Asmussen said John Velazquez has the mount on Untapable.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Rudy Rodriguez said he would like to get Gazelle Stakes winner Condo Commando to Churchill Downs early, possibly in time to put in two workouts over the track in preparation for the May 1 Kentucky Oaks.
“Everybody says it’s important to train over the track, so we’ll try to do that,” Rodriguez said Monday morning. “If we can give her two works there, that would be good.”
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though disappointed in El Kabeir’s third-place finish in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial, owner Ahmed Zayat said Monday he is leaning toward running the horse in the Kentucky Derby.
“If you ask me today, I’d say 80 percent we should go,” Zayat said by phone Monday afternoon. “For the trainer, for the horse, they deserve a chance.”
El Kabeir, trained by John Terranova, certainly has enough qualifying points to get into the Kentucky Derby based on his victories in the Kentucky Jockey Club last fall and the Jerome and Gotham this year.