Total handle on the 13-race Pegasus World Cup card on Saturday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., was $43.89 million, according to charts of the races, a figure that ranks in the top tier of the U.S. racing calendar for betting on a single day of racing.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Hit Show was to scratch from Saturday’s Grade 3, $750,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park to run in next Saturday’s Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct, trainer Brad Cox confirmed Friday.
“Better spot,” Cox said via text.
Hit Show, a son of Candy Ride owned and bred by Gary and Mary West, has won two of three starts including a first-level allowance going a two-turn mile at Oaklawn on Dec. 17.
He drew post 8 of 9 in the Southwest and was one of three Cox had entered in that race along with Corona Bolt and Jace’s Road.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Munnys Gold won her second race about as easily as her first, earning an 88 Beyer Speed Figure in a 6 1/4-length romp here Wednesday in a first-level allowance restricted to Florida-breds. The 3-year-old Munnings filly got six furlongs in 1:10.78, returning $2.20 as a huge favorite under Irad Ortiz Jr.
Trained by Todd Pletcher for Robert and Lawana Low, Munnys Gold was making her first start in more than seven months. Her only prior race came last June at Monmouth Park, where she won a five-furlong maiden race by 14 1/2 lengths to earn a 101 Beyer.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Prep season in Florida starts heating up as Kentucky Derby prospects will undergo their first major test of the year at Gulfstream Park when the Grade 3, $250,000 Holy Bull Stakes is run next Saturday, Feb. 4.
Jockey Edwin Gonzalez, who was among the top 10 riders at the Gulfstream Park spring-summer and summer-fall meetings last year, is moving to Golden Gate Fields.
Gonzalez, 31, is booked to ride three of the nine races on Saturday’s program, all for trainer Jonathan Wong.
Gonzalez said in an interview on Thursday that slow business during the current Gulfstream Park winter meeting led to his decision.
“I’m not riding much,” he said. “I don’t like to be on the bench. I like to be playing the game. The best riders are here.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Kiaran McLaughlin had to make a lot of difficult decisions during a sensational 25-year training career that resulted in more than $120 million in stable earnings.
Not a lot has changed in that regard in the nearly three years that have elapsed since McLaughlin retired from training to begin booking mounts as the agent for star jockey Luis Saez. Case in point: his decision to ride Get Her Number instead of Art Collector in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The most accomplished 2-year-old filly in California last season is aiming to a Grade 1 that was once a natural. But over the past decade, the spring target for And Tell Me Nolies has become a reach for a West Coast 3-year-old filly.
“Obviously, the Kentucky Oaks is our goal,” trainer Peter Miller said. “With her pedigree, and with the distances increasing, I would think [the Oaks] would be in her wheelhouse.”
Kentucky Ghost is among the older male horses expected in action next Saturday, Feb. 4, at Tampa Bay Downs, where the stakes schedule will resume with a pair of graded turf stakes.
Kentucky Ghost is being pointed to the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes, which will be run the same day at the Oldsmar, Fla., track as its female counterpart, the Grade 3 Endeavour. Purses for both 1 1/16-mile turf races start at $150,000, with an additional $25,000 in bonuses available to eligible Florida-breds.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Keystone Field, who owns the current highest Beyer Speed Figure for races at a mile or longer in 2023, is scheduled to make his next start in the Grade 3, $600,000 Razorback Handicap on Feb. 18 at Oaklawn Park, trainer Mike Maker said Tuesday.