ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The versatile mare Best Gift of All will go back to Polytrack on Friday at Woodbine in the featured eighth race, a 1 1/16-mile allowance for Ontario-sired females.
Best Gift of All, who wintered in Florida with trainer Katerina Vassilieva, was a troubled fourth in her first appearance of the meet in an allowance on grass June 12. She subsequently beat nonwinners-of-two Ontario-sired allowance opposition traveling 1 1/16 miles on Polytrack.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – Eddie Broome hopes the “Party” continues Friday afternoon at Monmouth Park.
Broome has his fingers crossed as the talented but fragile Partyallnightlong launches his latest comeback. A 6-year-old, Partyallnightlong makes only his second start in the last two years in a $46,000 third-level allowance that is also open to $50,000 claimers going six furlongs.
BOSSIER CITY, La. – For something as modest sounding as an entry-level optional $12,500 claimer, Friday’s featured seventh race at Louisiana Downs came up awfully interesting . . . and bettable. A field of nine fillies and mares will dash five furlongs over the turf.
The owners of a food truck who were ejected from the grounds of Saratoga Race Course because of a racially tinged term in the food truck’s name have filed a federal lawsuit against the New York Racing Association alleging a violation of First Amendment rights.
Brady’s Tomboy is taking a substantial step up in class, but she is a very sharp horse right now and might be good enough to win her fourth straight race when she runs in a $35,000 optional claimer at Northlands Park on Friday. The one-mile race for fillies and mares drew eight horses, including the consistent 8-year-old mare Salsa Express, who also is coming off a sharp win.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Although Fury Kapcori showed promise in sprints last year, it wasn’t until he went around two turns that he displayed his best form, and that is why trainer Jerry Hollendorfer believes an improved performance is in store for the colt in the $100,000 El Cajon Stakes for 3-year-olds on Friday at Del Mar.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The news that Cross Traffic did not enter Saturday’s $750,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga was met with mixed emotions from several of the trainers who did enter their horses in the Grade 1 race.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Dominick Schettino expected Flash Forward to run another big race in Wednesday’s $100,000 My Flag at Saratoga, but perhaps not as big as the dominant 8 1/4-length victory the improving 3-year-old filly registered over Toasting and four others in the 1 1/8-mile overnight stakes.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Sweet Lulu, who remained unbeaten with a hard-fought victory in the Test Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday, is likely to be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Tuesday on a national teleconference.
The BC Filly and Mare Sprint, like the Test, is at seven furlongs on dirt.
The Oklahoma Racing Commission has awarded Remington Park in Oklahoma City a 67-date meet for Thoroughbreds for 2014 from Aug. 15 through Dec. 14. The track also was granted a 50-date meet for Quarter Horses from March 7 to June 1.
Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., was awarded a 32-date meet for Thoroughbreds from March 3 to May 17. The track’s meet for Quarter Horses is set to run 28 dates next year from Sept. 6 to Nov. 8.
