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DRF Past Performances
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 16:29
Point of Entry, the turf standout trained by Shug McGaughey, had his first work since moving north from Florida, breezing a half-mile Monday in 48.20 seconds over the Keeneland Polytrack.
McGaughey is pointing Point of Entry to the next major race in the older-horse turf division, the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on the Kentucky Derby undercard. Point of Entry, an earner of more than $2 million, defeated Animal Kingdom in winning his only start this year, the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap on Feb. 9.
Gathering headed up
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Trainer Ken McPeek said he is “seriously considering” the filly Pure Fun for a run against 3-year-old males here at Keeneland on April 20 in the Coolmore Lexington Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile Polytrack race that offers 20 points to the winner on the new eligibility system being used for the Derby.
McPeek noted correctly that Derby points can be used by a filly toward the Kentucky Oaks, whereas points earned in races restricted to fillies cannot be used toward the Derby.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Buoyed by a record-setting Florida Derby Day card and a closing-day Rainbow 6 pool in excess of $7 million, Gulfstream Park once again set marks for both total and ontrack handle during the recently concluded 2012-13 meet.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – If Verrazano is the consensus favorite for the May 4 Kentucky Derby, then shouldn’t Java’s War be taken pretty seriously, too?
When Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, opens for its 17th Thoroughbred spring meet Thursday evening, offtrack fans may not see much difference from past meets. The horsemen competing at Lone Star are largely unchanged. Overnight purses are flat at approximately $130,000 per day, and the stakes program is roughly equivalent to last year’s, minus a couple stakes for Texas-sired 2-year-olds.
But the experience for ontrack fans and horsemen should be noticeably improved.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Eblouissante, a half-sister to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, is expected to be part of a 22-horse group that trainer John Shirreffs will ship to Belmont Park in New York later this month.
Shirreffs said on Tuesday that his Belmont Park runners will leave California on April 22, and that more horses could be sent later.
Trainer Nick Sloan enjoyed his first stakes victory when Luscious Lonna, a $6,250 claim 13 months earlier, scored a front-running $26.80 upset in Sunday’s Golden Poppy on the turf here. Luscious Lonna defated 12 filly-mare rivals, including four from the Jerry Hollendorfer barn.
“Running on soft turf and against Halo Dolly was a little bit scary,” said Sloan, who joked that Hollendorfer had more runners in the race than he has in his barn.
Control Seeker, Positive Response, and Hudson Landing, the first three finishers in a Saturday allowance prep on turf, came out of the race perfectly primed for the Grade 3 San Francisco Mile on April 27.
“We’re looking pretty good,” said Control Seeker’s trainer, Keith Nations.
“I liked the way he finished.”
Control Seeker won last year’s Joseph Grace on the turf at Santa Rosa, and Nations thinks he is better on the turf than the main track.