ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jimmy Chew Shoos switches to the turf off an improved race in Wednesday’s Woodbine headliner, a seven-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired nonwinners of three.
Jimmy Chew Shoos, a 6-year-old trained by co-owner Richard Cadger, defeated lowly $12,500 maidens in his eighth outing last spring. He maintained good form through the summer and was victorious over a capable group of $20,000 conditioned claimers in August.
Spanish Jazz and On the Key look like the main players in a first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds and up that headlines Wednesday’s 10-race card at Northlands Park. The one-mile race attracted seven horses and goes as the sixth race.
Also on the card is the $27,278 Alberta Stallion Stakes Derby Final for 3-year-old Quarter Horses. The 330-yard dash drew nine horses and goes as the first race. Post time is 6 p.m Mountain.
Trainer Mike Mitchell was released from a Southern California hospital on Sunday evening, hours after collapsing near the winner’s circle of an apparent seizure following the sixth race at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Mitchell was resting at home on Monday morning, according to Billy Koch, a friend of the Mitchell family who operates the Little Red Feather Racing partnership.
“He’s doing much better,” Koch said. “He wanted to go to the barn.”
The 53-year-old jockey Don Lee Frazier won the 2,000th Thoroughbred race of his career Sunday at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., when he guided Fast But Furious to a debut win in a maiden special weight race. The horse won by four and a half lengths, and paid $13.60.
Frazier’s first Thoroughbred win came on Aug. 13, 1977. He has had 20,396 Thoroughbred mounts, and they have earned $11,518,159.
“It’s a highlight to reach 2,000,” Frazier said in a release issued by Arapahoe. “It’s a great accomplishment and not many riders have done it.”
AUBURN, Wash. – Jebrica, a 10-1 outsider, raced to a hard-earned victory Sunday in the $50,000 Budweiser Handicap for older horses at Emerald Downs, rallying from midpack to collar the leaders in the final yards and holding off the fast-closing Stryker Phd to win by three-quarters of a length.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Include Me Out, a multiple Grade 1 winner in 2012 who was third in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at Santa Anita last fall, had a successful start to her 2013 campaign with a victory in Sunday’s $77,070 Desert Stormer Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park.
A 5-year-old mare owned by Samantha Siegel and trained by Ron Ellis, Include Me Out won the fifth stakes of her career in the Desert Stormer, run over six furlongs.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – Verrazano is back, rebounding from a 14th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby to easily win the Grade 3, $148,500 Pegasus Stakes for 3-year-olds Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Itsmyluckyday wasn’t as fortunate. The runner-up to Oxbow in the Preakness, Itsmyluckyday was pulled up on the backstretch with a left hind injury. He was vanned back to his stall in Eddie Plesa Jr.’s barn.
“There is nothing obvious we can pinpoint at the moment,” Plesa said. “We’re taking a series of X-rays. So far, no fractures are evident.”
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Mike Mitchell was undergoing tests early Sunday evening at nearby Little Company of Mary Medical Center after collapsing near the winner’s circle following the afternoon's sixth race at Betfair Hollywood Park. Mitchell was responsive and coherent at the hospital, according to his assistant, Phil D'Amato.
SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Hammers Terror returned to the site of his last victory, in last year's inaugural Mystic Lake Derby at Canterbury Park, and revisited the winner’s circle Sunday, taking the $50,000 Brooks Fields Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths over Slip and Drive to give jockey Dean Butler his fourth win of the day.
Wizardry won the third stakes race of her career Sunday at Arapahoe Park, where she delivered as the favorite in the $40,000 Molly Brown. She won by two lengths over Jet Blue Girl, and it was another neck back in third to Lady Jila.
Wizardry ($6) was prominent for much of the six-furlong race for fillies and mares, taking the lead through a half-mile in 45.57 seconds, then increasing her advantage to the wire to win in 1:10.42.
