The ninth race is the lone allowance Sunday at Turfway. For non-winners of three at a mile, the race drew six runners, led by the unbeaten Ancient Bells, a winner of two starts, and The Tizzler, who finished second against comparable opposition Jan. 17.
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Dylan Davis, who enjoyed a successful apprenticeship while riding mostly in Kentucky and Indiana, is returning to Kentucky after riding this winter at Aqueduct, his new agent, Jimmy McNerney, said.
Now a journeyman, Davis will begin riding Feb. 27 at Turfway, McNerney said, and he plans to ride in Kentucky on a regular basis, with occasional trips to Indiana Grand when that meet begins later in the spring.
Although the Breeders’ Cup is more than eight months away, set for Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland, one would not have guessed it by looking at the Wednesday work tab in Kentucky.
Three top performers from the 2014 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita – BC Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny, Juvenile Turf runner-up Luck of the Kitten, and Juvenile Fillies runner-up Sunset Glow – breezed Wednesday morning at Turfway Park for trainer Wesley Ward. Hootenanny and Sunset Glow both went a half-mile in 49.80 seconds on Turfway’s Polytrack, and Luck of the Kitten covered the same distance in 50.60.
Though all of her success has come sprinting, the multiple stakes winner Paulassilverlining will try two turns for the first time in the $100,000 Busher Stakes next Saturday at Aqueduct.
Paulassilverlining, a daughter of Ghostzapper, has won three of five starts, including the Grade 2 Matron last fall at Belmont and the Ruthless Stakes last month over the inner track. Both races were at six furlongs.
My Fiona, the champion 2-year-old California-bred filly of 2014, is nearing a return to training after undergoing surgery to have a bone chip removed from an ankle.
My Fiona was sidelined after winning the Soviet Problem Stakes for 2-year-olds at Los Alamitos in December. Trainer Walther Solis said this week that My Fiona will return to training in March, with the goal of a comeback in the summer.
“We thought this was the best time to do it,” Solis said.
Shared Belief will have three workouts at Golden Gate Fields in the coming weeks before returning to Santa Anita for the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 7.
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said on Friday that Shared Belief emerged from his win in the $590,000 San Antonio Stakes on Feb. 7 in good order and will have a workout at Golden Gate Fields on Wednesday.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Holy Lute will have his first start in a Grade 1 race in more than a year in the $400,000 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf at Santa Anita on March 7, a decision reached after the 5-year-old won an optional claimer Thursday.
Holy Lute, trained by Jim Cassidy for Class Racing Stable, won for the first time since August 2013 in the second-level optional $62,500 claimer on the hillside turf course, leading throughout as the 4-5 favorite. He was challenged in early stretch by U S Citizen but drew away under jockey Mike Smith.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In his 35 years training horses, Gary Sciacca has won 853 races, including four Grade 1 stakes, and campaigned a divisional champion. But the victory by Saratoga Snacks in Thursday’s $69,000 New York-bred allowance feature at Aqueduct rivals any of those feats.
“I never had the feeling I had yesterday,” Sciacca said Friday morning. “It’s something totally different. Great story.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Palace Malice, the winner of the 2013 Belmont Stakes and the 2014 Metropolitan Handicap, was scheduled to arrive Friday at Todd Pletcher’s barn at the Palm Beach Downs training center following an overnight van ride from South Carolina.
Palace Malice will be pointed to the one-mile Westchester Stakes on May 2 at Belmont Park, according to a Thursday release from Dogwood Stable, which sold a partial interest in the horse last year to Three Chimneys Farm, where Palace Malice will stand at stud after retiring.