Sun, 06/23/2013 - 22:35

Emerald Downs: Stopshoppingdebbie, Music of My Soul score in stakes

AUBURN, Wash. – Stopshoppingdebbie remained unbeaten with a sizzling victory Sunday in the $50,000 Irish Day Handicap for 3-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs, and in running faster than males in a stakes race later in the card, she stamped herself as the fastest 3-year-old in the Pacific Northwest.

A homebred for Jerre Paxton’s Northwest Farms and co-owned by Debbie Paxton, Stopshoppingdebbie continued to live up to her flashy pedigree. She’s by Curlin from the Wild Again mare Taste the Passion, a multiple stakes winner at Emerald Downs in the late 1990s.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 21:07

Pleasanton: Saint Prado wins Livermore Valley Wine Stakes

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Saint Prado (right) got his first stakes victory in Sunday's Livermore Valley Wine.

Sometimes it pays for a trainer to listen to a jockey.

Trainer Jeff Bonde remembered that jockey Rafael Bejarano suggested that Saint Prado ($10.80) could be a good sprinter, and when he entered the Kitten’s Joy colt in the $53,350 Livermore Valley Wine Stakes at the Alameda County Fair, he was rewarded with the colt’s first stakes victory Sunday.

Saint Prado broke alertly, but jockey Frank Alvarado let the speedy Los Tres Bohemios and South Floyd battle for the lead in the six-furlong race for 3-year-olds.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 20:47

Hollywood Park: Thursday pick-six carryover of $94,863

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The racing week at Betfair Hollywood Park will begin Thursday with a pick-six carryover of $94,863.

Thursday’s pick six covers the third through eighth races, which do not feature large fields. The pick-six races begin with a $16,000 claimer for fillies and mares over seven furlongs that has seven runners, followed by a six-furlong maiden race on turf that has eight entrants.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 20:41

Hollywood Park: Puype ties track record with six consecutive winners

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Mike Puype tied a Betfair Hollywood Park track record with six straight winners from Thursday through Saturday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Mike Puype equaled a track record when he saddled six consecutive winners from Thursday through Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Puype’s attempt to break the record ended when Moonlight Splitter finished 10th as a 5-1 shot in Sunday’s sixth race for turf maidens. The 46-year-old shares the record for the most consecutive wins at Hollywood Park with Allen Drumheller Sr., who won six straight races July 4-5, 1955.

“I expected to have a good week,” Puype said Sunday. “The entries were good, and they all had good trips.”

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 19:59

Belmont Park: Lovely Syn has surgery on fractured sesamoid bone

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Lovely Syn ran her record to 4 for 4 with a 10 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s Bouwerie Stakes.

Lovely Syn, the undefeated New York-bred 3-year-old filly who suffered a career-ending injury at Belmont Park on Saturday, underwent successful surgery Sunday, and the hope is she can become a broodmare.

The surgery, to repair a fractured sesamoid bone in Lovely Syn’s left foreleg, was performed by Dr. Dean Richardson – who also worked on 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro – at the New Bolton Center in Pennsylvania.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 19:50

Belmont Park: Wednesday pick-six carryover of $248,140; Street Secret wins Open Mind

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Street Secret won Sunday's $90,000 Open Mind Stakes in her first start on dirt.

There will be a pick-six carryover of $248,140 at Belmont Park on Wednesday after the wager wasn’t hit over the weekend.

There was a $71,684 carryover following Saturday’s card, and an additional $308,389 was wagered into the pool Sunday.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 19:33

Hollywood Park notes: Doinghardtimeagain leaning toward Fleet Treat

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Rafael Bejarano guides Doinghardtime to a 2 1/2-length victory in the Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Doinghardtimeagain may revert to California-bred stakes after winning her graded-stakes debut in the $150,000 Hollywood Oaks on Saturday.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday that Doinghardtimeagain is a candidate for the $200,000 Fleet Treat Stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies over seven furlongs at Del Mar on July 27. Another possible race for Doinghardtimeagain is the $300,000 Delaware Oaks over 1 1/16 miles at Delaware Park on July 13.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 19:22

Monmouth Park: Street Gem gets first stakes win in Revidere

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Street Gem and jockey Daniel Coa won the Revidere Stakes by 1 1/4 lengths Sunday.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Street Gem, disqualified from second in her previous start, had a clean trip Sunday as she got her first stakes victory in the $61,800 Revidere for 3-year-old fillies on turf at Monmouth Park.

Street Gem was dropped from second to fifth on Memorial Day in Monmouth’s Little Silver Stakes for interference in the stretch. She was uncharacteristically far back in the Little Silver and lacked a clear path when launching a bid.

Reverting to her normal style, Street Gem was right on the pace in the Revidere. That proved to be the winning trip.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 19:07

SunRay Park: Isn't He Clever dominates San Juan County Commissioners

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Isn't He Clever won the San Juan County Commissioners Handicap by 16 3/4 lengths Sunday for his fifth stakes win.

Isn’t He Clever was a blowout winner of the $75,000 San Juan County Commissioners Handicap at SunRay Park in Farmington, N.M., on Sunday, leading throughout for a 16 3/4-length win.

Casa de Cambio, his uncoupled stablemate, finished second to give owners J. Kirk and Judy Robison and trainer Henry Dominguez a sweep of the race’s top two spots. The $2 exacta paid $21.40.

Sun, 06/23/2013 - 18:31

Hollywood Park: Small fields expected for Grade 1 stakes

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Obviously, unbeaten in three starts going a mile on turf, has become a late candidate for the Breeders' Cup Mile.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The two Grade 1 races at Betfair Hollywood Park on Saturday will have small fields.

As of Sunday, there were five probable starters for the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile on turf and five or six candidates for the $250,000 Triple Bend Handicap over seven furlongs on the synthetic main track.

The 2012 winners of both races are back this year.