Tue, 07/09/2013 - 15:25

Suffolk Downs rider Terrill hospitalized after spill

EAST BOSTON, Mass. – Jockey Andria Terrill remained hospitalized in good condition Tuesday and was undergoing continued evaluation and treatment after reportedly suffering a skull fracture in a spill at Suffolk Downs on Monday.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 15:00

Hollywood Park: Meydan Magic on the rise entering Thursday allowance

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – O K Topless was a $10,000 claim that did not pan out. A three-time winner, she was injured soon after being claimed in fall 2006.

Owner-trainer Julio Canani was stuck. The filly’s racing days were over.

“She was a beautiful mare,” Canani recalled. “So I decided to breed her.”

Good move. Canani bred her three times to a horse that he trained, Tribal Rule, a son of Storm Cat who became a leading California sire.

As for O K Topless, she is well on her way to becoming quite the successful broodmare.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 14:39

Hollywood Park: Talamo tries to hold off Bejarano in race for leading rider

Barbara D. Livingston
Joe Talamo holds a four-win advantage heading into the final week of racing at Betfair Hollywood Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Jockey Joe Talamo begins the racing week at Betfair Hollywood Park on Thursday with a four-race lead in the jockey standings. He has ridden 50 winners, four more than Rafael Bejarano, the 2012 title holder.

The track’s spring-summer meeting ends Sunday. Talamo knows his lead is not safe.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 14:16

Belmont Park: Jacobson filly can get pick-six players off to good start

David Jacobson, whose 40th and 41st winners Sunday caught and passed Todd Pletcher’s 10-year-old record for a spring-summer meet at Belmont Park, will try to add to his record total as an abbreviated final week begins Thursday with a $40,744 carryover in the pick six.

Jacobson has six horses entered in four races, but unfortunately for pick-six bettors his strongest chances lie outside the super-exotic’s parameters with the 8-5 entry of North Ocean and Road Agent in the opener and 2-1 favorite Correspondent in race 3.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 13:49

Delaware Park: Ponzi Scheme needs to regain old form

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Six-year-old Ponzi Scheme is out to snap a nine-race losing streak.

Ponzi Scheme has plenty of back class, with three stakes victories during his campaigns in 2011 and 2012. Whether he is ready to regain that good form following two mediocre sprint performances and a dull effort at a flat mile, however, is open to debate.

The 6-year-old Ponzi Scheme will seek to snap a nine-race losing streak when he stretches out from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles as the 2-1 morning-line favorite in Thursday’s $50,000 Stymie Stakes at Delaware Park.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 11:56

Woodbine backstretch deals with flooding; Tuesday training canceled

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The tunnel leading to the Standardbred barn at Woodbine is flooded following Monday's heavy rain.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine’s backstretch was engulfed by 5 inches of rain in a storm that started late Monday afternoon and continued well into the evening.

Several barns were flooded, to varying degrees. The flooding was worse in barns where end doors and windows were left open and employees were unable to get to them due to flooding at the backstretch entrances.

The actual stalls were flooded in a number of barns, and matting and bedding was pulled out and tossed on the shed rows in an attempt to dry them.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:47

Woodbine: Huronia making return, trying grass

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The once-beaten Huronia returns from a long layoff on Wednesday night at Woodbine in the fourth race, a nonwinners-of-three allowance race for Ontario-sired females at 6 1/2 furlongs on grass.

Huronia, a 4-year-old trained by Stuart Simon, made all three of her career starts last fall on Polytrack. She dueled through fast fractions before weakening to second when she debuted in a six-furlong maiden special weight race on Oct. 6. About a month later, she overcame a slow break to beat Ontario-sired maidens from off the pace going 6 1/2 furlongs.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:40

Delaware Park: Motion has four in Christiana Stakes

Tom Keyser
Makayla’s Angel will be making her turf debut in the Christiana.

The numbers are certainly stacked in trainer Graham Motion’s favor in Wednesday’s $50,000 Christiana Stakes at Delaware Park. Motion has four of the 10 3-year-old fillies entered in the one-mile turf stakes, including last-out winners Makayla’s Angel and Joy. All will run as separate entrants.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:17

Woodbine: Sam-Son team has tough weekend

Michael Burns
Up With the Birds is a question mark for the Prince of Wales Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Up With the Birds, who flew home to be beaten a half-length as the 8-5 favorite in the Queen’s Plate, completed a frustrating weekend for Sam-Son Farms, trainer Malcolm Pierce, and jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva.

On Saturday, those connections had watched Golden Sabre finish first in the $129,800 Charlie Barley only to be disqualified and placed fourth.

His Race to Win, also racing for Pierce and Sam-Son in the Queen’s Plate, finished sixth under import rider John Velazquez.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:08

Calder: Breeders’ Cup still possible for Starship Truffles

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Starship Truffles was purchased privately for $20,000 last summer.

MIAMI – Trainer Marty Wolfson said the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint would not be an option for Starship Truffles immediately after her victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap at Calder. By Monday, however, Wolfson said the door still remained open, if only slightly, for a possible trip to Santa Anita in the fall.